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

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2. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
3. Journey’s End - R C Sherriff
4. Larkin with Women - Ben Brown
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
6. Joking Apart - Alan Ayckbourn
7. The 39 Steps - John Buchan (Adapted by Patrick Barlow from an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon)
8. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
9. Romeo and Juliet - A Senior Youth Theatre Production - William Shakespeare
10. Bette and Joan - Anton Burge
11. The Railway Children (stage version) - E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny
12. Richard II - William Shakespeare
13. Kindertransport - Diane Samuels
14. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
15. The Death of Miss Gloria Starr - Devised by the cast
16. Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff, from the classic story by Franz Kafka
17. The Seagull - Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Torben Betts
18. The History of Cardenio - William Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Gary Taylor
19. The Snow Dragons - Lizzie Nunnery
20. The Weir - Conor McPherson
21. Oh! What a Lovely War - Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop
22. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
23. Tom and Viv - Michael Hastings
24. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
25. Toad of Toad Hall - A. A. Milne - A play from Kenneth Grahame’s book ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Music by H Fraser-Simson
26. Collaborators - John Hodge
27. Boeing-Boeing - Marc Camoletti translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
28. We Are Three Sisters - Blake Morrison
29. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO - Lee Hall from Carlo Collodi’s original tale
30. The White Devil - John Webster
31. The Adventures of Dick Whittington and his Cat - Dickon Williamson
32. King Lear - William Shakespeare
33. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
34. Coraline - from the novel by Neil Gaiman
35. Night Must Fall - Emlyn Williams
36. All’s Well that Ends Well - William Shakespeare
37. The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol, adapted by D. J. Campbell
38. Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov, in a version by Christopher Hampton
39. Egad! The Woman in White - Tim Kelly
40. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs
41. Master Shakeshafte - Peter Parkinson
42. Love’s Labour’s Lost - William Shakespeare
43. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie, Tim Supple and David Tushingham
44. From These Green Heights - Dermot Bolger
45. Othello - William Shakespeare
46. Blood Wedding (Youth Theatre) - Federico García Lorca - Translation by Gwynne Edwards
47. The Chalk Garden - Enid Bagnold
48. A Tender Thing - Ben Power
49. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
50. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
51. Educating Rita - Willy Russell
52. The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
53. Robin Hood - David Barrett
54. Double Bill: Leonardo’s Last Supper and Laughter (Part II) - Peter Barnes
55. Designs on Ladies - Georges Feydeau, translated by David King, adapted by Rodney Figaro
56. Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp
57. Once in a Lifetime - Moss Hart & George S Kaufman
58. The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan
59. Dracula - Liz Lochhead adapted from Bram Stoker's novel
60. Henry VIII or All is True (staged reading) - William Shakespeare & John Fletcher
61. The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery - David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin jr.
62. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
63. Around The World in 8 Plays - Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello
64. In the Club - Richard Bean
65. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
66. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens, adapted by Jo Clifford
67. Peter Pan - JM Barrie (John Caird and Trevor Nunn)
68. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
69. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
70. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
71. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
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72. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
73. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
74. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
75. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
76. King John - William Shakespeare
77. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
78. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
79. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
80. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
81. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
82. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
83. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
84. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
85. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
86. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
87. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
88. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
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90. Iron - Rona Munro
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