Past & Future Productions
Following the success of our production of Golden Opportunities, by Eugène Scribe, Jane Nightwork Productions is proud to present another of Scribe's neglected masterpieces, translated by author and journalist Anthony Curtis.
At My Mother's Knee: Love, War and Death
A trilogy of three linked plays, At My Mother's Knee: Love War & Death is our forthcoming production, written and directed by Robert Gillespie. Please click above for more information.
Golden Opportunities was our most recent production, a comedy written by the 19th Century French Playwright Eugene Scribe and adapted by Anthony Curtis.
Making Dickie Happy
Young Noel Coward and his boyfriend, Tono, young 'Dickie' Mountbatten and a naval chum, and youngish Agatha Christie, mysteriously alone and using another name, all find themselves at an hotel on an island off the Devon coast soon after the end of the First World War. The results of this accidental gathering are at the heart of Jeremy Kingston's new play, whose premiere coincides with the 25th anniversary of Mountbatten's death. The weekend is fictitious, the people real; this look at relationships, marriages, engagements, promises, hellos and goodbyes is never less than fascinating.
Sex, Death and A Baked Swan
Deborah Cook, successful writer of Eastenders, was inspired to write a fascinating, funny, tense and very moving account of two young women preparing to go out in the arena and pit their combat skills, in London, before a vast, eager crowd. Were there such women fighters? Here's the satirical poet Juvenal's opinion of them: "How can a woman be decent, sticking her head in a helmet, denying the sex she was born with? Manly feats they adore, but they wouldn't want to be men…" "What these women love is the sword…"
Oedipus: A Double Bill
Written by Making Dickie Happy's Jeremy Kingston, this was a double bill of plays centering around the infamous Greek anti-hero.
Passion Play
Passion Play was written by Peter Nichols and performed in 2002 at The Rosemary Branch Theatre.
Oleanna
Robert directed David Mamet's famous play about the relationship between a University professor and one of his student's in 2001.
My Heart is a stage drama for two people written by Robert Gillespie to try to come to grips with what is one of our last, big, social taboos; it’s subject is death - something lots of people are scared to talk about in ordinary conversation, even now.