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We are seeking co-producers for new productions of our past successes, in particular VANITY (EUGENE ONEGIN), GOGOL and SATAN'S BALL.
OPERA WEEKENDER SPECIAL EVENT IF YOU DARE!
SUNDAY 21ST JAN 2018, 4-4.30PM
V&A LECTURE THEATRE
composer: Vlad Maistorovici
librettist: Richard Crane
director: Faynia Williams
with The 12 Ensemble, soprano Becca Marriott, tenor Oliver Brignall
It’s never been more important to get inside the skin of a historic monster figure. This opera goes ‘beyond comedy’ to give a fascinating and disturbing insight into the roots of the divisions between East and West.
dramatised by RICHARD CRANE
directed by FAYNIA WILLIAMS
Tron Theatre, Glasgow
12th - 28th October 2017
Murder, mystery, madness and redemption in Russia’s most dysfunctional family. In a society where ‘everything is permitted’ for a chosen few, what do the iconic Karamazov brothers have to say to the world today?
a week in the life of an undercover mosquito
by Richard Crane
directed by Faynia Williams
Am I the most dangerous creature on earth? Or are you?
As I near the end of my seven-day existence, I challenge you to argue that most inflammatory question: Whose planet is this anyway?
by Matei Visniec
directed by Faynia Williams
Williams’s production of ‘The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War’, for the Brighton Festival in 1999, as the bombs were falling on Serbia, was the first UK production of Visniec’s work.
Visniec and Williams are seeking funding for a production of this latest play on a hugely topical subject. We hope to generate a renewed interest in the UK theatre industry of this major, multi-award winning European playwright. Williams chaired a recent evening at the Romanian Cultural Institute dedicated to Visniec and discovered a younger generation of artists with a passion for his writing.
by Jonathan Cash
directed by Faynia Williams
Josephine Baker dines with Herman Goering in 1941 Paris
This new work by Jonathan Cash (The First Domino) given voice for the first time by director Faynia Williams certainly provoked a response – some good and some vociferously outraged…..
very promising and deeply disturbing,…. a mix of flirtation of a sexual and murderous nature. Anna-Maria Nabirye plays Josephine Baker, lithe and sexy. Ross Gurney-Randall is excellent… as Goering.
Concorde II, 20 May 2013
Andrew Kay
by Richard Crane after Yury Olesha
music by Donald Swann
directed by Faynia Williams
Songs, acrobatics, a football crowd, limericks, sonnets, a street mirror, church bells, sirens – illuminate and refract the action. This most shocking and provocative 1927 Soviet novel is ripe for rediscovery as 21st ‘century-men’ face up to new peaks of hope and troughs of envy.