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 11th to Saturday 16th 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

Other past productions

1. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
2. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens, adapted by Jo Clifford
3. Peter Pan - JM Barrie (John Caird and Trevor Nunn)
4. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
5. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
6. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
7. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
   adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
8. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
9. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
10. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
11. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
12. King John - William Shakespeare
13. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
14. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
15. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
16. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
18. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
19. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
20. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
21. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
22. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
23. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
24. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
25. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
26. Iron - Rona Munro
27. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
28. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
29. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
30. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
31. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
32. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
33. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
34. Harvey - Mary Chase
35. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
36. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
37. Henry V - William Shakespeare
38. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
39. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
40. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
41. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
42. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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