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

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