2010 Productions

 

Love, Love, Love

Written by

Mike Bartlett

Produced by

Theatre Royal Plymouth & Paines Plough

About

1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it.

Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple’s forty-year journey from initial burst to full bloom. Paines Plough and the Theatre Royal Plymouth present the world première of Mike Bartlett’s new play, directed by Paines Plough’s co-Artistic Director James Grieve

Performances

Theatre Royal Plymouth
7th October – 23rd October 2010

Salisbury Playhouse
8 – 12 March 2011

Watford Palace Theatre
16 – 19 March 2011

Studio Theatre, Leicester Curve
22 - 26 March 2011

Live Theatre, Newcastle
29 - 30 March 2011

Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
1st & 2nd April 2011

West Yorkshire Playhouse
5th - 9th April 2011

New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
19th - 21st April 2011

Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
27 - 30 April 2011

Liverpool Playhouse
05 - 07 May 2011

Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
11 - 14 May 2011

Hull Truck Theatre
17 - 21 May 2011

Royal & Derngate, Northampton
24 - 28 May 2011

Cambridge Arts Theatre
01 - 04 June 2011

Oxford Playhouse
07 - 11 June 2011

Town Hall Theatre, Galway
12 - 16 July 2011

Royal Court Theatre, London
27 April - 09 June 2012

Reviews

“…The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth production and Paines Plough production does not disappoint with compelling performances”
WhatsOnStage

Cast

Jamie
James Barrett

Henry
Simon Darwen

Sandra
Daniela Denby-Ashe

Kenneth
John Heffernan

Rose
Rosie Wyatt

Creative Team

Director
James Grieve

Designer
Lucy Osborne

Lighting Designer
Hartley T A Kemp

Sound Designer
Tom Gibbons

Assistant Director
Jack Lowe

Costumer Supervisor
Lorna Price


Chekov in Hell 

Written by

Dan Rebellato

Produced by

Theatre Royal Plymouth

About

“I don’t know who he is but he’s old, he’s got to know stuff…he’s got to be like wise and stuff yeah?”

Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep is thrust rudely into twenty first century Britain. Reality shows, fashionistas, Z-list celebrities, illegal immigrants, chuggers and wags. Pole dancing,
YouTube, Twitter and Metrosexuals. Chekhov in Hell takes you on a whirlwind tour of modern day Britain.

Performances

Theatre Royal Plymouth
Thursday 4th - Saturday 20th November 2010

Soho Theatre, London
20 April - 14 May 2011

Reviews

★★★★
"Simon Stokes’ excellent production keeps the whole thing bubbling along, and if the show never quite finds an emotionally satisfying balance between the farcical and the heartfelt, it’s a neat 90 minutes performed with real skill and flair by a superb cast"
The Guardian

Cast

Anton Chekhov*
Simon Gregor

Olga Knipper, Nurse, Language Student, WPC Gregory, Claire Willis, Jemma, Lap Dancer, Cheryl, Valerie Kelly
Emily Raymond

Doktor Schwöhrer, Cardiac Specialist, Language Student, Aleksandr, Steve, Clergyman
Paul Rider

Gregor, Doctor, Language Student, Jade, Mike, Security Guard, Max, James Ward, Policeman
Jonathan Broadbent

Nicholas, Physiotherapist, Language Student, PC Aston, Neil, Martin, Nick, Bob, Craig
Geoffrey Lumb

Nicola, Language Student, Sarah, Lap Dancer, Sally, Cathy, Mimi, Lynn, Marica, Selina, Jessica, Irina
Ruth Everett

*Anton Chekhov played by Simon Scardifield at Soho Theatre

Creative Team

Director
Simon Stokes

Designer
Bob Bailey

Lighting Designer
Bruno Poet

Sound Designer
Adrienne Quartly

Casting
Lucy Jenkins and Sooki McShane

Russian Translator
Noah Birksted-Breen

Dialect Coach
William Connacher