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.
For our work overseas please see the international page.
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
EMILY BRONTE’S POETRY – FOR EMILY’S 200TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 2018.
WORLD PREMIERE – THE SHOEMAKER’S WONDERFUL WIFE BY FEDERICO LORCA 2015
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
WAR POETS & POETRY OF CONSCIENCE – NATIONAL THEATRE & CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE – 2002/2003
LLC OPENING PERFORMANCE: ‘BYRON IN LOVE’ BY ANNE FLEMMING 2002
PRODUCTIONS DIRECTED PRIOR TO L.L.C.
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS DEVISED BY VALERIE DOULTON – CHELTENHAM SPRING FESTIVAL & N.P.G
WORK IN MUSIC
Val directed the music theatre piece The Soldier’s Tale by Igor Stravinsky for St. Donat’s Music Theatre (now St. Donat’s Arts Centre).
Designer: Stewart Laing. Choreographer: Debbie Green.
The production opened at St. David’s Hall in Cardiff and was followed by a tour of Wales.
You will go a long way to find a more accomplished concept and performance of this work.
Review: Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale: (South Wales Echo).
Prior to staging The Soldier’s Tale, Val worked as an observer to John Copley at the Royal Opera House on Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Handel’s Sémélé. Val was also John Copley’s assistant on a Royal Opera House gala for the Queen’s 60th birthday.
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale – soldier played by Frank Rozelaar-Green
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale – the devil played by Julian Moyle
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale – the narrator played by Diana Judd
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale
‘THE SOLDIER’S TALE’ BY STRAVINSKY
A SEASON AT LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
‘THREE WOMEN’ BY SYLVIA PLATH
‘SYLVIA PLATH: A DRAMATIC PORTRAIT’ BY BARRY KYLE
STUDENT PRODUCTIONS
DRAMA CENTRE – Blood on the Neck of The Cat
CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH & DRAMA – Rosmersholm, John Gabriel Borkman, Heartbreak House, A View from the Bridge, The Beaux’ Stratagem
GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA – The Recruiting Officer, A Flea in Her Ear
THE WEBBER DOUGLAS ACADEMY OF DRAMA – Spring Awakening, Iphigenia in Tauris
MOUNTVIEW – Chekhov
DRAMA STUDIO LONDON – The Measures Taken
GUILDFORD SCHOOL OF ACTING – Death of a Salesman
MANCHESTER POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL OF THEATRE – Uncle Vanya
BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL – Magnificence
CITY LIT – D.C. (A Musical) Book and Music by Jeremy Raymond, Blood Wedding, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Spring Awakening, Find Me, The Mysteries.
CITY LIT FOR JOHN JAMES’ SHAKESPEARE REPERTORY THEATRE – The Changeling, The Duchess of Malfi, Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Pericles, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Winter’s Tale, Richard lll, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Othello, The Merchant of Venice
AMERICAN STUDENT SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS:
June 2025 As You Like It with Shakespeare’s Sonnets (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) a recital performed at St. Anne’s Church, Highgate, by Niagara University drama students.
• June 2024 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) a recital performed at St. Anne’s Church, Highgate, by Niagara University drama students.
• June 2023 As You Like It with Songs in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) play performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, & Salcombe, Devon.
2020 During lockdown – Shakespeare’s Kings & Queens (programme devised by Val Doulton & directed via Zoom, performed by Niagara University drama students).
• June 2019 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, & Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
• June 2018 Love Scenes from As You Like It with Songs in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon, Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
• June 2017 Much Ado About Nothing in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon, Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
• June 2016 & 2014 The Tempest in One Hour: In a Climate Change concept: (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students in the garden at Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon.
• June 2015 Twelfth Night in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students at Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon, Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
• June 2011 Shakespeare’s Henry V111 with a special focus on Anne Boleyn (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students at The Tower of London where Anne Boleyn was executed.
