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

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