Past Productions 1980-1989
1980
Samba by Michael Abbensetts
Rise of the Old Cloud by Mike Dorrell (Paines Plough)
Space Ache by Snoo Wilson, with music by Nick Bicât
Cunning Stunts Christmas Show (Cunning Stunts)
1981
Cunning Stunts Christmas Show
Rien ne va plus by Pip Simmons (Pip Simmons Theatre Group)
Black Ball Game by Don Webb (Pola Jones/Crucible Theatre)
‘Better a Live Pompey Than a Dead Cyril’, compiled by Clare McIntyre, music by Stephanie Nunn (The Women’s Theatre Group)
Bloomers cabaret, written and performed by Eve Bland, Noreen Kershaw and Eileen Pollock (Bloomers)
Mourning Pictures by Honor Moore (Monstrous Regiment)
What’s Got Into You? by Elaine Morgan (Bag and Baggage)
The Opera, devised and performed by the company (Cunning Stunts)
People Show Cabaret
Gone with Hardy by David Allen
Show Trial: The Artists’ Enquiry into the Arts Council, devised by Ed Berman (Inter-Action Production)
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. II, Ivor Cutler
Tap Dance on a Telephone Line by Donna Franceschild (Tap Shoe Theatre Company)
Exit the Maids, devised and presented by the company (Lilith)
Red Door Without a Bolt by Jude Alderson (Sadista Sisters)
Urfaust after Goethe (Die Vaganten/LIFT)
Bekkanko (An Ogre), adapted by Asaya Funita (Tamagawa Dance and Drama Group/LIFT)
In Dreams by Alan Williams (Hull Truck)
Creeps by David E. Freeman (Midway Enterprise)
Hotel Amigo, jazz cabaret devised by Kate and Mike Westbrook
Blood on the Dole by Jim Morris (with Liverpool Playhouse)
Citizen Ilyushin by Kevin Mandry (with Foco Novo)
Days Here So Dark by Terry Johnson (Paines Plough)
Winter Warmer (Cunning Stunts)
Pierrot in Five Masks and Isabella or The Pot of Basil (Barry Smith’s
Theatre of Puppets)
1982
Barry Smith’s Theatre of Puppets
‘Would the Real Judy Garland Please …’ by Sam Jacobs
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. II, Ivor Cutler and Phyllis King
Behind the Lines, Roger McGough and Brian Patten
Gandhi by Guerney Campbell
Blind Dancers by Charles Tidler (Reunion Theatre Company)
Behind the Lines (remount)
Love in Vain by Bob Mason
Queen Christina by Pam Gems
‘Ever After’ by Catherine Itzin and Ann Mitchell
Red Alert: This Is a God Warning, written and performed by Leo Aylen
Act Without Words I and II by Samuel Beckett (Noho Theatre Group,Kyoto)
Sink or Swim by Tunde Ikoli and the company (Foco Novo)
Gotterdammerung or Twilight of the Göds, written by the company with Bryony Lavery (National Theatre of Brent)
Artichoke by Joanna Glass
Stuffing It by Robin Glendinning
Jack Sheppard’s Back by Shirley Barrie, music by Ian Barnett
1983
Jack Sheppard’s Back
The Messiah by Patrick Barlow (National Theatre of Brent)
Private Habits, an evening with Ivor Cutler
Mitzi Wildebeest, First Lady of the Velt, devised and performed by Elaine Loudon
More Female Trouble, devised by Bryony Lavery, music by Caroline Noh
Mr Puntila and His Servant Matti by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Jeremy Brooks (Foco Novo)
The Messiah (remount)
Love and Dissent by Elisabeth Bond (The Women’s Theatre Group)
Beyond the ‘A’ Penny Steps by Tony Dennis
Theatre of the Film Noir by George F. Walker (Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto)
Smile Orange by Trevor Rhone
Objects of Affection, the Elaine Loudon Group
A Nest of Intervals, one-man show, Neil Innes
Buried Treasure by Olwen Wymark
The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard (Black Theatre Co-operative)
Nightshoot by Bob Mason, music by Hazel O’Connor, Neil O’Connor, and Eddie Case
1984
Calamity by Bryony Lavery (Monstrous Regiment)
Poppies by Noel Greig (Gay Sweatshop)
Playboy of the West Indies by Mustapha Matura (Oxford Playhouse Company)
Pula and Imbumba by Matsemela Manaka (Soyikwa African Theatre)
Playboy of the West Indies (remount)
Real Estate by Louise Page
C’mon Everybody!, songs and poems by Adrian Mitchell (David Jones)
Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo (1982 Theatre Company)
The Boot Dance by Edgar White (Temba Theatre Company)
Black Dog – Inj’emnyama, created by Barney Simon and the Company (Market Theatre, Johannesburg)
The One O’Clock World by Leigh Jackson
Fire-Eaters by Paul Copley (with Croydon Warehouse)
Two Can Play by Trevor Rhone
Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
1985
Carmen: The Play, Spain 1936 by Stephen Jeffreys, based on the story by Prosper Mérimée (with Communicado Theatre Company)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Black Theatre Co-operative)
Lonely Cowboy by Alfred Fagon
Pantomime by Derek Walcott (Temba Theatre Company/Leicester Haymarket)
Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk (Giant Enterprises/Bolton Octagon Theatre)
Flann O’Brien’s Hard Life or Na Gopaleens Wake by Kerry Crabbe
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
1986
Joyriders by Christina Reid (Paines Plough)
Blood Sweat and Tears by John Godber (Hull Truck)
The Lower Depths: An East End Story by Tunde Ikoli (Foco Novo/Birmingham Repertory Studio Theatre)
Joyriders (remount)
Who Killed Hilda Murrell? by Chris Martin (Sheffield Crucible)
I Do Like to Be by Shane Connaughton (with Irish Company)
Born in the R.S.A., created by Barney Simon and cast (Market Theatre, Johannesburg)
The Hostage by Brendan Behan
Tejo Vanio (Tejo the Miser) and Zanda Zulan (Zulan the Flag Bearer) by Asaita Thakar (Tara Arts)
1987
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin (Carib Theatre) + West End transfer
Thatcher’s Women by Kay Adshead (Paines Plough)
The Greatest Story Ever Told by Patrick Barlow (National Theatre of Brent)
Burning Point by John Cooper
1988
Trinidad Sisters by Mustapha Matura, after Chekhov (at the Donmar)
1989
Pentecost by Stewart Parker (at the Lyric Studio, Hammersmith)
All or Nothing at All
Nativity by Nigel Williams