Performances

Performances

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.

PERFORMANCES OF EXCELLENCE

OUR REPERTOIRE

 

SHAKESPEARE AND SIGN LANGUAGE 2020 & 2012

 

IMMERSIVE BLAKE AT THE TATE BRITAIN 2019

 

JOE ORTON: CENSORED AND UNCENSORED PERFORMANCE 2018

 

EMILY BRONTE’S POETRY: FOR EMILY’S 200TH ANNIVERSARY 2018

 

DAVID JONES: IN PARENTHESIS 2017

 

‘CHARLOTTE, EMILY, AND ANNE’ BY DOUGLAS VERRALL

FOR CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S 200TH ANNIVERSARY 2016

 

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ARTS: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 2016 & 2014

 

‘THE SHOEMAKER’S WONDERFUL WIFE’ BY FEDERICO LORCA 2015

 

‘THE POST OFFICE’ BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE 2013 & 2011

 

MILTON’S 400TH ANNIVERSARY 2010 & 2008

 

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

 

‘BLAKE’ BY ELLIOTT HAYES 2008

 

BLAKE: HIS 250TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY 2007

 

‘THE QUILT’ BY VALERIE DOULTON 2007

 

‘THE THREE SISTERS’ & ‘JACK AND ALICE’ BY JANE AUSTEN 2005

 

PREMIERE: ‘CHARLOTTE, EMILY, AND ANNE’ BY DOUGLAS VERRALL 2004

 

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

PERFORMANCES OF EXCELLENCE

PRIOR TO THE LIVE LITERATURE COMPANY

 

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


FROM ESTATE TO PARK 2016

 

BURDETT COUTTS 2006

 

DOROTHY PARKER

 

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

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