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
PRODUCTIONS DIRECTED PRIOR TO L.L.C.
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS DEVISED BY VALERIE DOULTON – CHELTENHAM SPRING FESTIVAL & N.P.G
AS YOU LIKE IT – THE GARRICK THEATRE for Crusaid (now Terrence Higgins Trust) and London Lighthouse.
BLAKE BY ELLIOTT HAYES – FILMED FOR THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
WORK IN MUSIC
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 DIRECTED
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. Peer Gynt, Clothes for a Summer Hotel (British premiere).
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 2013 Twelfth Night in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed in Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
June 2012 Scenes from Twelfth Night – performed by Niagara University drama students in the V & A Theatre and Performance Galleries.
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.
