2007 - The Better Half/Ripper/Kiss of Death/Guns or Butter/Sweetmeat - T1351106020Producer Sticking Place. Author Noel Coward (The Better Half). Author Mark Ravenhill (Ripper). Translation Tristan Langlois (Kiss of Death). Author Lucy Kirkwood (Guns or Butter). Author Darren Ormandy (Sweetmeat). Director Ben De Wynter. Director Sarah Chew. Director Tamara Harvey. Director Adam Meggido. Performer Ken Campbell. | |
| 16 Oct 07 to 10 Nov 07 | Union Theatre, Inner London :: V1167 listing details L0703738289 |
2006! - The Disappearance/The Rose Garden/There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard/Normal - T80625051The Disappearance has been adapted from the James tale by Daragh Carville (winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker Award and the 1998 Meyer-Whitworth Prize), while Terror Season favourite William Stewart (adaptor of HP Lovecraft's Reanimator in 2004) will present a new version of James' chiller The Rose Garden for Natural Perspectives Theatre Company. MR James adaptations will play over Halloween including Sean McCann's version of There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard. The season ventures into even darker terrain with a revival of Anthony Neilson's first play - Normal, a shocking and controversial exploration into the mind of Peter Kurten - the Dusseldorf Ripper of the 1930's. Directed by Bill Buckhurst.Company The Sticking Place. | |
| 24 Oct 06 to 25 Nov 06 | Union Theatre, Inner London :: V1167 listing details L1210334786 |
2005 - Theatre of Horror and Grand Guignol - T01111238095The season will feature poetry, puppetry and a host of spine-tingling thrillers to celebrate the most basic human emotion of terror. Highlights include productions of DeSade by [Darren Ormandy], The Red Room by HG Wells adapted and directed by [Justin Butcher], The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe adapted by [Adam Meggido], The End of the Party by Graham Greene adapted by [William Stewart], Ambrose Bierce s My Favourite Murder adapted by Jamie Stewart, and The Witch Of Coos, Robert Frost s poetic chiller, directed by [Ben Nealon]. The programme will change from October 25, with productions of Workprint by [Sean McCann] and The Monkey¹s Paw in a new adaptation by [Marcus Daley] from the classic tale by WW Jacobs. On Monday October 31 there is a Halloween Special including magic, poetry and The Society of Wonders. Throughout the season there will also be curtain raisers, cabaret, other oddities, and contemporary puppet shows in a Dark Third Act devised and directed by [Matt Peover].Company The Sticking Place. | |
| 13 Oct 05 to 5 Nov 05 | Union Theatre, Inner London :: V1167 listing details L01320730357 |
