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The Score

These are the productions I have seen in the theatre of late:

2012
She Stoops to Conquer (Olivier)
The Bomb: First & Second Blasts (Tricycle)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric)
The Comedy of Errors (Olivier)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe)
The Death of Klinghoffer (ENO)
The Tales of Hoffmann (ENO)
The House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida)
The Merchant of Venice (Rose, Bankside)
Scaramouche Jones (Pleasance)
Lovesong (Lyric)
Jerusalem (Apollo)
Hamlet (Young Vic)
The Animals and Children Took to the Streets (Cottesloe)

2011
Driving Miss Daisy (Wyndham’s)
The Veil (Lyttelton)
Some Like It Hip Hop (Peacock)
13 (Olivier)
Doctor Faustus (Globe)
One Man, Two Guvnors (Lyttelton)
Much Ado About Nothing (Globe)
The Wild Bride (Lyric)
Fela! (Sadler’s Wells)
Le Cirque Invisible (QEH)
A Woman Killed with Kindness (Lyttelton)
Othello (Rose, Bankside)
Emperor and Galilean (Olivier)
London Road (Cottesloe)
Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother (Sadler’s Wells)
Simon Boccanegra (ENO)
6,000 Miles Away (Sadler’s Wells)
Into Thy Hands (Wilton’s)
The Cherry Orchard (Olivier)
Hamlet (Rose, Kingston)
Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic)
Dunas (Sadler’s Wells)
Greenland (Lyttelton)
Parsifal (ENO)
Mogadishu (Lyric)
Twelfth Night (Cottesloe)
Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena (Sadler’s Wells)
The Heretic (Royal Court)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales (Lyric)

2010
Matthew Bourne’s Cindarella (Sadler’s Wells)
Blood and Gifts (Lyttelton)
Bale de Rua (Sadler’s Wells)
Blasted (Lyric)
Hamlet ((Olivier)
Faust (Young Vic)
Bedlam (Globe)
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Globe)
Henry VIII (Globe)
Welcome to Thebes (Olivier)
Danton’s Death (Olivier)
Anne Boleyn (Globe)
Romeo and Juliet (Rose)
Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother (Sadler’s Wells)
Women Beware Women (Lyttelton?)
Elektra (Young Vic)
Richard Alston Dance Company (Place)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Young Vic)
Macbeth (Globe)
The Canterbury Tales (Rose, Kingston)
The White Guard (Lyttelton)
A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (Lyric)
Twelfth Night (Tricycle)
Hair (Gielgud)
11 and 12 (Rose, Kingston)
Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna (Sadler’s Wells)
Measure for Measure (Almeida)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rose, Kingston)
Nation (Olivier)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
An Inspector Calls (Wyndham’s)
I Am Yusuf and This is My Brother (Young Vic)
Three Sisters (Lyric)
Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic)

2009
Mixed Up North (Wilton’s)
Carlos Acosta and Guests (Sadler’s Wells)
Origin of the Species (Arcola)
Mr Darwin’s Tree (Westminster Abbey!)
Cirkus Cirkor (Peacock)
Comedians (Lyric)
Mother Courage (Olivier)
As You Like It (Globe)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Globe)
A New World (Globe)
Paco Peña’s Flamenco sin Fronteras (Sadler’s Wells)
The Mountaintop (Trafalgar)
Helen (Globe)
Troilus and Cressida (Globe)
Time and the Conways (Lyttelton)
Macbeth: Who Is That Bloodied Man? (National)
Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray (Sadler’s Wells)
Sidi Larbi & Antony Gormley’s Sutra (Sadler’s Wells)
All’s Well that Ends Well (Olivier)
Richard Alston Dance Company (Place)
Death and the King’s Horseman (again)
The Great Game (Tricycle)
Wuthering Heights (Lyric)
Othello (Rose, Kingston)
Dido, Queen of Carthage (Cottesloe)
England People Very Nice (Olivier)
The Overcoat (again)
Death and the King’s Horseman (Olivier)
The Overcoat (Lyric)
Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena (Sadler’s Wells)
King Lear (Young Vic)
Doctor Atomic (ENO)
Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic)
Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea (Theatro Technis)
Spring Awakening (Lyric)
The Magic Flute (ENO)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Olivier)
Traces (Peacock)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled

2008
Amazonia (Young Vic)
Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands (Sadler’s Wells)
Othello (Lyric)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose, Kingston)
Oedipus [Rex] (Olivier)
War Horse (again)
Spyski (Lyric)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Sadler’s Wells)
The Burial at Thebes (Globe)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Globe)
Timon of Athens (Globe)
La Machine in Liverpool
Her Naked Skin (Olivier)
The Threepenny Ring Cycle (National)
King Lear (Globe)
West Side Story (Wells?)
The Revenger’s Tragedy (Olivier)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe)
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras (Sadler’s Wells)
The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic)
Troilus and Cressida (Barbican)
Major Barbara (Olivier)
Never So Good (Olivier)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric)
Scottish Dance Company (Place)
An English Tragedy (Watford)
Tavaziva Dance (Place)
Motherland (Young Vic)
Women of Troy (Lyttelton)
The Arab and the Jew (Lyric)
Metamorphosis (Lyric)
A Christmas Carol (Young Vic)
The Magic Flute (Young Vic)

2007
Much Ado about Nothing (Olivier)
Present Laughter (Lyttelton)
The Sacrifice (Sadler’s Wells)
The 39 Steps (Criterion)
The Lady of Burma (Riverside)
Rough Crossings (again)
War Horse (Olivier)
The Investigation (Young Vic)
Casanova (Lyric)
The Country Wife (Haymarket)
Rough Crossings (Lyric)
Holding Fire (Globe)
The Merchant of Venice (Globe)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Globe)
Paco Peña’s Requiem for the Earth (Festival Hall)
The Bacchae (Lyric)
The Emperor Jones (Olivier)
The Hothouse (Lyttelton)
Saint Joan (Olivier)
Romeo and Juliet (Dulwich Park)
Rafta, Rafta (Lyttelton)
Othello (Globe)
Matthew Bourne’s Car Man (Sadler’s Wells)
The Rose Tattoo (Olivier)
A Matter of Life and Death (Olivier)
Cymbeline (Barbican)
Vernon God Little (Young Vic)
The Entertainer (Old Vic)
Mahabharata (Sadler’s Wells)
Satyagraha (ENO)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Roundhouse)
Hofesh Shechter’s Uprising (Place)
Equus (Gielgud)
The Taming of the Shrew (Wilton’s)
Lumanox (Broad Street, Oxford)
Jump (Peacock)
The Tempest (Novello)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
The Enchanted Pig (Young Vic)
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells)

2006
The Gondoliers (ENO)
Yippeee!!! (Sadler’s Wells)
Rambert Dance Company (Sadler’s Wells)
The Life of Galileo (Olivier)
THe Alchemist (Olivier)


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