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.

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