Plays, Dance, Opera, and Music Produced as an Artistic/Theater Director

BP: British Premiere
WP: World Premiere

TRAVERSE THEATRE

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1981-1982:

• THE ASCENT OF WILBERFORCE III by Chris Judge-Smith & J. Maxwell Hutchinson.
• HEAVEN AND HELL by Dusty Hughes.
• WEDDING BELLES AND GREEN GRASSES by Marcella Evaristi.Writer, BP.
• TRAFFORD TANZI by Claire Luckham. Subsequently produced on Broadway with Deborah Harry of BLONDIE.

1982-1983:

• THE SLAB BOYS TRILOGY (THE SLAB BOYS, CUTTIN’ A RUG, STILL LIFE) by John Byrne. Subsequently produced on Broadway by Schuberts, with Sean Penn. WP.
• BLOOD & ICE by Liz Lochhead.

Visiting Companies Produced

• THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA by Briony Lavery and Patrick Barlow. National Theatre of Brent. WP.
• HONI COLES AND CHUCK GREEN. New York. WP.
• A PRELUDE TO DEATH IN VENICE by Lee Breuer. Mabou Mines. New York. BP
• WOZA ALBERT! by Barney Simon, Percy Mtwa, and Mbongeni Ngema. Market Theatre. Johannesburg. BP
• THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS by Lee Breuer and Robert Otis Telson. Mabou Mines. New York. New writer, WP

1983-1984:

• FUGUE by Rona Munro.
• BUGLAR BOY by Stanley Eveling.
• MEDEA by Barney Simon (after Grillparzer). BP

Visiting Companies

• TRIO by Joseph Chaikin. New York. Co-production. WP
• FALKLAND SOUNDS/VOCES DE MALVINAS by Louise Page. Co-produced with Royal Court Theatre.
• NASTASSIA FILIPOVNA by Andre Wajda (after Dostoyevsky). Stary Theatre. Poland. BP
• PUT IT ON YOUR HEAD. Theatre de Complicite. New writer, WP
• A MINUTE TOO LATE. Theatre de Complicite.
• DIE HOSE by Carl Sternheim.
• A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE. Borderline Theatre Company.
• OMLETTE BROADCASTING COMPANY.
• THEATRE OF THE FILM NOIR by George Walker. Factory Theatre Lab. Toronto. BP
• WELCOME HOME by Tony Marchant. Paines Plough. New writer, WP

1984-1985:

• KLIMKOV by Chris Hannan.
• BARRY by Frederic Mohr.
• MARK’S GOSPEL translated into the Scots by W.L. Lorimer. WP.
• OPIUM EATER by Andrew Dallmeyer.
• SANDRA/MANON by Michel Tremblay. BP.
• THE WORKS by Marcella Evaristi. New writer, WP.
• CANDY KISSES by John Byrne. Traverse Co-Production with Leicester Haymarket.
• THE INNOCENT by Tom McGrath. Co-production.

Visiting Companies

• THE TELL TALE HEART by Stephen Berkoff. London Theatre Group. WP.
• Theatre PKF and 1982 Theatre Company.
• SONGS FROM THE FRONT by Elaine Loudon.
• PALS by Tom McGrath. Cumbernauld Theatre.
• GLASGOW ZEN by Alan Spence. WP.
• BLACK MAS by John Constable. Foco Novo.
• BLACK DOG/INJ’EMNYANA by Barney Simon. Market Theatre. Johannesburg. BP.
• STILL LIFE by Emily Mann. Vietnam War Veterans Ensemble. New York. New writer, BP
• THE HUMAN VOICE by Jean Cocteau.
• MELANCHOLY JACQUES by Bernard Chartreux and Jean Jourdheuil, translated by Christopher Logue. Co-produced by Almeida Theatre. New writer, BP

1985-1986:

• THROUGH THE LEAVES by Franz Xaver Kroetz. BP.
• WHITE ROSE by Peter Arnott.
• MACQUINN’S METAMORPHOSES by Martyn Hobbs.
• ELIZABETH GORDON QUINN by Chris Hannan.
• LOSING VENICE by John Clifford.

Visiting Companies

• NO SON OF MINE by Philippe Gaulier. Paris. WP.
• TOSA GENJI by Tsuneichi Miyamoto. Tokyo. BP.
• TERRESTIAL EXTRAS by Marcella Evaristi. Tron Theatre. WP.

1986:

• BHOPA! by Percy Mtwa. The Market Theatre Johannesburg. BP.

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1987:

• ROOM SERVICE by John Murray and Alan Boretz.
• MASK OF MORIARTY by William Gaunt
• FAT PIG by Mark Bramble and Henry Krieger.
• STRIPPERS BY Peter Terson
• THE TRAVELLER by Jean-Claude Van Italie. Cast included David Threlfall.
• HEDDA GABLER by Ibsen. Directed by Michael Boyd.
• LONG TO RAIN OVER US by Dick Edwards.

Visiting companies

• APART FROM GEORGE by Nick Ward. RNT Education.
• THE WAR IN HEAVEN by Sam Shepard. Joseph Chaikin, New York. BP.
• PHANTASMAGORIA. London Contemporary Dance.
• DON CHERRY’S NU. Contemporary Music Network.
• YOU STRIKE THE WOMAN, YOU STRIKE THE ROCK. Market Theatre, Johannesburg.
• BOPHA! By Percy Mtwa. Market Theatre, Johannesburg.

1988:

• NOISES OFF by Michael Frayn. Directed and designed by Ultz.
• WOMAN IN MIND by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by David Levaux, Designed by Annie Smart, Cast included Alison Fiske and Jonathan Adams.
• EASTER by August Strindberg. Directed by David Levaux, Designed by Annie Smart, Cast included Gerard Murphy and Jemma Redgrave.
• FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS by Terence Rattigan. Directed by Simon Usher, Designed by Douglas Heap.
• OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR by Theatre Workshop. Directed by Tim Supple.
• JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare, and CREON by Stephen Spender. Commissioned, WP
• THE SNOWMAN by Raymond Briggs and Howard Blake. New Writer.
• TIMON OF ATHENS by William Shakespeare. Directed by Simon Usher, Designed by Jocelyn Herbert.
• THE LAST SUPPER by Howard Barker. Directed by Kenny Ireland, Designed by Dermot Hayes. Tri-partite production with The Wrestling School and Royal Court. Commissioned, WP
• CRIMES OF PASSION by Joe Orton.
• THE BROKEN HEART by John Ford, Directed by Simon Usher, Designed by Brien Vahey; and
• DRUMS IN THE NIGHT by Bertholt Brecht, Directed by David O’Shea, Designed Beatrice Stein.
• THE BELLS by Leopold Lewis

Visiting Companies and Performers

• NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN, Qwaali singer.
• RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY.
• PESHKAR. Contemporary Music Network.
• HILLIARD ENSEMBLE. Contemporary Music Network.
• EVAN PARKER AND INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL. Contemporary Music Network.
• JAZZ WARRIORS. Contemporary Music Network.
• EXILE IN THE FOREST. Tara Arts.
• SONGS AND POEMS OF BERTHOLT BRECHT. Ekkehard Schall, East Berlin.
• RUSTAVELI COMPANY. Tblisi, Georgia.
• ADELAIDE HALL.
• THE BACCHAE by Euripides. Shared Experience.

1989-1990:

• STEPPING OUT by Richard Harris, Directed by Tim Flavin, Designed by Michael Pavelka.
• M. BUTTERFLY by David Henry Hwang, Directed by John Dexter, Designed by Eiko Ishioka, Cast included Anthony Hopkins, G. G. Goei. New writer, BP, Co-produced.
• THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD by D. H. Lawrence, Directed by John Dove, Designed by Brien Vahey, Cast included Kevin Whateley, Anna Carteret.
• A DOLL’S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen, Directed by Nick Ward, Cast included Daniel Massey, Miranda Foster, T. P. McKenna.
• DAMES AT SEA by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, Directed by Tim Flavin.
• HAMLET by William Shakespeare, Directed by Yuri Lyubimov, Designed by David Borowsky, Cast included Daniel Webb.
• FASHION by Doug Lucie, Directed by Michael Attenborough, Cast included Paul Freeman, Michael Culver, Norman Rodway.
• CABARET by Kander and Ebb, Directed by Tim Flavin.
• KIRTI, SONA AND BA by Jezz Simons and Jyoti Patel, Directed by David O’Shea, Designed by Rasshid Ali Din.
• YES AND NO BUT by Graham Alborough.
• PALE PERFORMER by David Drane.
• LOW PEOPLE by Dick Edwards.
• LOOKING AT YOU (REVIVED) AGAIN by Gregory Motton. New writer.
• KRAPP’S LAST TAPE and CATASTROPHE by Samuel Beckett, Directed by Antoni Libera, Designed by Jocelyn Herbert, Cast included David Warrilow.
• 7 LEARS by Howard Barker. Tri-partite production with The Wrestling School and Sheffield Crucible. WP.
• JACKETS by Edward Bond. Commissioned, WP.
• MURDER IN THE RUE MORGUE by Edgar Alan Poe. WP

Visitings Companies and Performers

• STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King.
• GAVIN BRYARS. Contemporary Music Network.
• JOHN ZORN. Contemporary Music Network.
• OPERA 80.
• MASS CARIB.
• ADAM’S DREAM. Black Theatre Co-op.

1990-1991:

• THE NAKED by Luigi Pirandello.
• PERICLES by William Shakespeare.
• DAISY PULLS IT OFF by Denise Deegan, Directed by Jenny Killick, Designed by Dermot Hayes.
• ANOTHER LOVE STORY by Frederick Lonsdale.
• AN EVENING WITH PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE by Patricia Routlege.
• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
• TRIO by Edmund White.
• VICTORY by Howard Barker. Wrestling School.
• IRMA VEP by Charles Ludlum.

Visiting Companies

• TARTUFFE by Moliere. Royal National Theatre.
• LA BOHEME by Puccini. Travelling Opera.
• COSI FAN TUTTI by Mozart. Travelling Opera.