Performances – The Live Literature Company

PERFORMANCES HISTORY

We bring words to life with love and laughter

Above: Margo Cargill performing John Milton’s sonnets on blindness at The Banqueting House in Whitehall, for Milton’s 400th birth anniversary.

L.L.C.’s REPERTOIRE OF PERFORMANCES

We are happy to give revival performances of any programme below.

A PIECE BY VAL DOULTON – WORLD PREMIERE – SHAKESPEARE’S OPHELIA MEETS PESSOA’S OFELIA – REGENT’S PARK 2025 (THE ARTS & HEALTH)

WORLD PREMIERE READING – EVENTS AT PEREDELKINO BY KILIAN McKENNA – play about Boris Pasternak & Dr. Zhivago – A MEMORIAL CELEBRATION FOR KILIAN 2024

INIGO BY GEORGE PENSOTTI – a play set in the English Civil War – BANQUETING HOUSE, WHITEHALL, a site-specific performance in the room Inigo Jones designed – 2023

THE ANCIENT MARINER – FOR COLERIDGE’S 250 TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – IN A CLIMATE CHANGE PRODUCTION CONCEPT, site-specific performances in the church where Coleridge is buried – 2022.

IMMERSIVE BLAKE PERFORMANCE OF SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE – 2022

SHAKESPEARE AND SIGN LANGUAGE: 2012 ROMEO & JULIET FILM – RE-RELEASED IN 2020

IMMERSIVE BLAKE FOR THE OPENING OF THE BLAKE RETROSPECTIVE TATE BRITAIN 2019

COMMEMORATIVE WW1 PERFORMANCE – BASED ON IN PARENTHESIS BY DAVID JONES DEVISED BY VALERIE DOULTON – THE N.P.G. FOR REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2018

JOE ORTON UNWRAPPED: CENSORED AND UNCENSORED: PERFORMANCE FOR THE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF STAGE CENSORSHIP AT THE V & A 2018

EMILY BRONTE’S POETRY – FOR EMILY’S 200TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 2018.

COMMEMORATIVE WW1 PERFORMANCES – BASED ON IN PARENTHESIS BY DAVID JONES DEVISED BY VALERIE DOULTON – THE BRITISH LIBRARY, and a site-specific performance in Brockley & Ladywell Cemetery where David Jones is buried – 2016

CHARLOTTE, EMILY & ANNE, BY DOUGLAS VERRALL FOR CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S 200 th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – THE V & A and N.P.G. – 2016

L.L.C. STANDS WITH REFUGEES WITH ON THE MOVE PERFORMANCE AT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – INCLUDING A PERFORMANCE OF VAL’S PIECE SONG OF INNOCENCE. (HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ARTS) 2016.

COMMEMORATIVE WW1 PERFORMANCES – BASED ON IN PARENTHESIS BY DAVID JONES DEVISED BY VALERIE DOULTON – THE WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE 2014 & 2015

L.L.C. STANDS AGAINST FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION WITH PERFORMANCE AT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 2014 – The New Spring Without F.G.M. – (HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ARTS).

WORLD PREMIERE – THE SHOEMAKER’S WONDERFUL WIFE BY FEDERICO LORCA 2015

THE POST OFFICE BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE – FOR BENGAL HISTORY WEEK & THE CENTENARY OF TAGORE’S NOBEL PRIZE – THE BRADY CENTRE IN BRICK LANE 2013

THE POST OFFICE BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE FOR HIS 150 th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – THE NEHRU CENTRE & THE BRITISH LIBRARY 2011

A SPIRITUAL AND POLITICAL CHALLENGE TO THE NATION – THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY (A site-specific performance in the room at The Banqueting House from which King Charles l went to his execution – Combined Arts: spoken word, song, music, dance & William Blake’s visual images for Milton’s Paradise Lost) 2010

‘BYRON IN LOVE’ AND ‘BYRON THE POET’ BY ANNE FLEMMING 2009

BLAKE BY ELLIOTT HAYES FOR PROJECT BLAKE ON THE SOUTH BANK 2008

CHRISTMAS MILTON CELEBRATION – FOR JOHN MILTON’S 400 TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY IN MILTON’S CHURCH – 2008

BLAKE BY ELLIOTT HAYES – FOR THE 25OTH ANNIVERSARY OF WILLIAM BLAKE’S BIRTH & SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE – 2007

THE QUILT BY VALERIE DOULTON – a performance piece about grief – THE BICENTENARY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN BRITAIN – THE N.P.G. 2007 (HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ARTS)

THE QUILT BY VALERIE DOULTON – a performance piece about grief – THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE & THE STROKE ASSOCIATION 2006 (THE ARTS & HEALTH)

THE THREE SISTERS & JACK AND ALICE BY JANE AUSTEN – JANE’S JUVENILIA ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY HELEN FOTHERINGHAM – in a site-specific performance in Bath, one of Jane’s hometowns, for THE JANE AUSTEN FESTIVAL BATH 2005.

WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF CHARLOTTE, EMILY & ANNE BY DOUGLAS VERRALL FOR THE BRONTE SOCIETY A.G.M. in a site-specific performance in the Bronte’s hometown, Haworth, – 2004

BYRON THE POET BY ANNE FLEMING – THE N.P.G. & THE E.S.U. and a site-specific performance in Byron’s home, Newstead Abbey – 2003

LLC OPENING PERFORMANCE: ‘BYRON IN LOVE’ BY ANNE FLEMMING 2002

PRODUCTIONS DIRECTED PRIOR TO L.L.C.

SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS AND QUEENS 2001

THE POETRY OF WAR: CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2003

BECKETT AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE & BECKETT IN BERLIN 1996

‘THE SOLDIER’S TALE’ BY STRAVINSKY

A SEASON AT LYRIC HAMMERSMITH

‘THREE WOMEN’ BY SYLVIA PLATH

‘SYLVIA PLATH: A DRAMATIC PORTRAIT’ BY BARRY KYLE

COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS

WWW1 COMMEMORATIVE PERFORMANCE – IN PARENTHESIS BY DAVID JONES – WHERE HE IS BURIED IN BROCKLEY & LADYWELL CEMETERY – FOR THE SOUTH EAST LONDON COMMUNITY

FROM ESTATE TO PARK – FOR THE NORTH LONDON COMMUNITY – 2016

BURDETT COUTTS 2006

DOTTIE BY IRENE ISON – THE LIFE & WORK OF DOROTHY PARKER – AT THE KING’S HEAD THEATRE – FOR THE NORTH LONDON COMMUNITY IN ISLINGTON & ISLINGTON N.S.P.C.C.

STUDENT PRODUCTIONS

SHAKESPEARE VIA ZOOM 2020

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM IN ONE HOUR 2019

LOVE SCENES FROM AS YOU LIKE IT WITH SONGS 2018

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IN ONE HOUR 2017

THE TEMPEST IN ONE HOUR: A CLIMATE CHANGE CONCEPT 2016 & 2014

TWELFTH NIGHT IN ONE HOUR 2015

‘D.C.’ BY JEREMY RAYMOND

HENRY VIII at THE TOWER OF LONDON 2011

JOHN JAMES SHAKESPEARE REPERTORY THEATRE

UNCLE VANYA 1980