The Art of Success

Archive Listings for The Art of Success

T0447358030 (PUTNEY08) Company Putney Theatre Company.
19 Feb 08 to 23 Feb 08	Putney Arts Theatre, Outer London :: V363 listing details L1674912277
T1608655650 (CAPITOL06) Director David Shirley.
8 Feb 06 to 11 Feb 06	The Capitol Theatre, Manchester :: V1006 listing details L1043668293
T01064178346 (ACAD03) Company The Academy Drama School. Director Tim Barron. Performer Elliot James (William Hogarth). Performer Claire Meczes (Jane Hogarth). Performer Ross Holland (Sir Robert Walpole). Performer Peter Vandoorn (Henry Fielding). Performer Elizabeth Elstub (Mrs Needham). Performer Denise Scott (Sarah Sprackling). Performer Dawn Childs (Lousia). Performer Rowena McNicol (Queen Caroline). Performer Ian Pringle (Oliver). Performer Tim Barton (Frank).
22 Jul 03 to 26 Jul 03	Camden People's Theatre, Inner London :: V176 listing details L02040101687
T01291089925 (CENTRAL03) Company Central School of Speech and Drama. Director Paul Tomlinson.
4 Jun 03 to 7 Jun 03	Embassy Theatre, Inner London :: V284 listing details L0541028830
T01970669188 (ICENI02) Company Iceni Productions. Director Amelia Nicholson. Design Jon Bausor. Costume Liz Foreman. Lighting Emily Brougham. Sound Mike Winship.
11 Jun 02 to 6 Jul 02	Arcola, Inner London :: V1422226940 listing details L02144104633
T620211035 (DCL02) Company Drama Centre London (third year students). Director Paul Tomlinson. Design Annabel Lee.
11 Mar 02 to 14 Mar 02	Drama Centre London, Inner London :: V12312112 listing details L780122882
T0207057811 (QUEST00) Company Questors. Director Roger Lewis.
8 Jan 00 to 22 Jan 00	Questor's Theatre, Outer London :: V326 listing details L228330908
T02094688114 (LAMDA98) Company The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Director John Bashford. Design Douglas Heap.
6 Jul 98 to 13 Jul 98	MacOwan Theatre (LAMDA), Inner London :: V212 listing details L0659111152
T1985630194 (IMA97) This production is only a stones throw from Hogarth's house in ChiswickCompany Image Theatre.
14 Jul 97 to 3 Aug 97	The Tabard Theatre, Outer London :: V334 listing details L114466564
Other listings
24 Apr 03 to 3 May 03	Progress Theatre, Reading :: V737 listing details L01636688812
29 Nov 99	General, Nottingham :: V0758542743 listing details L665468097

Details

Play :: Based on the life of William Hogarth (famous for his bawdy illustrations Marriage a la mode, The Rake's Progress and The Harlot's Progress) it is funny, savage, passionate, cruel, foul mouthed, sexy and at times surreal and grotesque play. In an age when owning any kind of picture - other than a religious image - was the prerogative of the rich, Hogarth stood at a turning point in history, his engravings were now available to Joe Public - with this new power came new responsibilities for the artist. First produced in 1987 by the [RSC], Nick Dear said he wanted to write about sex in a time when words like 'feminism' and 'sexuality' didn't exist, to write about the unconscious world before Freud. To do so he takes lots of liberties and makes many speculations, creating a romping, theatrical cartoon but at it's core the play grapples provocatively in political and social terrain. The play contains scenes, language and or issues of an adult nature.

Author

Nick Dear