This Story of Yours

by John Hopkins
directed by Fiona Smith

'This Story of Yours..'  which opened at the Royal Court  in 1969, is a gripping powerful  neglected gem of British Theatre. The author, John Hopkins was best known as a television dramatist, adapting John Le Carre's 'Smileys People' and writer on the 1960s BBC Police drama 'Z Cars'. 

Police Detective Sergeant Johnson is a man in extremis, with a failed marriage, recurrent memories of all the terrible crimes he has witnessed, and despair with a world that allows such things to be. Now all his frustration and anguish are unleashed in an extreme act of violence. Convinced he has caught the man responsible for a series of attacks on little girls, a suspect is brought in for questioning. During the interrogation dark emotions rise to the surface with appalling results.

 

A tense drama

Monday 11 to Saturday 16 April 2011
Please note: this production opens on MONDAY 11 April and there is no Saturday matinee.
Evenings at 7.45pm. Please note: there is no performance on the Wednesday nor is there a Saturday matinee

Please enquire of the Box Office before booking tickets as to the extent of the provision available at the Mary Wallace Theatre for those with disabilities.

Other past productions

1. Joking Apart - Alan Ayckbourn
2. The 39 Steps - John Buchan (Adapted by Patrick Barlow from an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon)
3. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
4. Romeo and Juliet - A Senior Youth Theatre Production - William Shakespeare
5. Bette and Joan - Anton Burge
6. The Railway Children (stage version) - E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny
7. Richard II - William Shakespeare
8. Kindertransport - Diane Samuels
9. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
10. The Death of Miss Gloria Starr - Devised by the cast
11. Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff, from the classic story by Franz Kafka
12. The Seagull - Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Torben Betts
13. The History of Cardenio - William Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Gary Taylor
14. The Snow Dragons - Lizzie Nunnery
15. The Weir - Conor McPherson
16. Oh! What a Lovely War - Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop
17. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
18. Tom and Viv - Michael Hastings
19. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
20. Toad of Toad Hall - A. A. Milne - A play from Kenneth Grahame’s book ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Music by H Fraser-Simson
21. Collaborators - John Hodge
22. Boeing-Boeing - Marc Camoletti translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
23. We Are Three Sisters - Blake Morrison
24. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO - Lee Hall from Carlo Collodi’s original tale
25. The White Devil - John Webster
26. The Adventures of Dick Whittington and his Cat - Dickon Williamson
27. King Lear - William Shakespeare
28. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
29. Coraline - from the novel by Neil Gaiman
30. Night Must Fall - Emlyn Williams
31. All’s Well that Ends Well - William Shakespeare
32. The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol, adapted by D. J. Campbell
33. Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov, in a version by Christopher Hampton
34. Egad! The Woman in White - Tim Kelly
35. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs
36. Master Shakeshafte - Peter Parkinson
37. Love’s Labour’s Lost - William Shakespeare
38. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie, Tim Supple and David Tushingham
39. From These Green Heights - Dermot Bolger
40. Othello - William Shakespeare
41. Blood Wedding (Youth Theatre) - Federico García Lorca - Translation by Gwynne Edwards
42. The Chalk Garden - Enid Bagnold
43. A Tender Thing - Ben Power
44. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
45. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
46. Educating Rita - Willy Russell
47. The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
48. Robin Hood - David Barrett
49. Double Bill: Leonardo’s Last Supper and Laughter (Part II) - Peter Barnes
50. Designs on Ladies - Georges Feydeau, translated by David King, adapted by Rodney Figaro
51. Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp
52. Once in a Lifetime - Moss Hart & George S Kaufman
53. The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan
54. Dracula - Liz Lochhead adapted from Bram Stoker's novel
55. Henry VIII or All is True (staged reading) - William Shakespeare & John Fletcher
56. The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery - David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin jr.
57. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
58. Around The World in 8 Plays - Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello
59. In the Club - Richard Bean
60. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
61. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens, adapted by Jo Clifford
62. Peter Pan - JM Barrie (John Caird and Trevor Nunn)
63. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
64. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
65. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
66. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
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67. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
68. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
69. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
70. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
71. King John - William Shakespeare
72. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
73. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
74. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
75. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
76. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
77. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
78. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
79. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
80. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
81. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
82. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
83. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
84. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
85. Iron - Rona Munro
86. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
87. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
88. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
89. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
90. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
91. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
92. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
93. Harvey - Mary Chase
94. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
95. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty

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