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

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