Actors Touring Company (ATC) is a touring theatre company based in London, founded in 1978 by Artistic Director
John Retallack
John Retallack (born 1950) is a British playwright and director.
Education
He studied at St Paul's School in London (1963–68) and later at St Paul's College of Education, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, where he took the Double English course ...
. Previous Artistic Directors have included Mark Brickman,
Ceri Sherlock
Ceri Sherlock (born August 1954) is a Welsh people, Welsh theatre, film and television director.
Ceri Sherlock was educated at Ysgol Dewi Sant, Llandovery College, King's College, London, the University of Glamorgan and as a Fulbright Scholar at ...
, Nick Philippou, Gordon Anderson,
Bijan Sheibani
Bijan Sheibani ( fa, بیژن شیبانی) is a British theatre director.
Early life and education
Sheibani was born in Liverpool, and moved with his family to Hove when he was 7. He was schooled at St Andrew's C of E School in Hove and at Brigh ...
,
Ramin Gray
Ramin Gray (born 11 October 1963) is a theatre director of Iranian (Muslim) and British (Jewish) heritage.
Personal life
Born in London in 1963, Ramin grew up in Oxford, Tehran, New York and Paris before graduating from Christ Church, Oxford with ...
and the current Artistic Director Matthew Xia (2018 - present).
Since 2007 the company has toured internationally and throughout the UK receiving
Olivier Award
The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital. The awards were originally known as ...
nominations for the productions of ''The Brothers Size'' with the
Young Vic
The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop in 1970. Kwame Kwei-Armah has been Artistic Director since February 201 ...
and ''Ivan and the Dogs'' with
Soho Theatre
The Soho Theatre is a theatre and registered charity in the Soho district of the City of Westminster, in London, England. It produces and presents new works of theatre, together with comedy and cabaret, across three performance spaces.
The the ...
. ATC won an Olivier Award for the production of ''
Gone Too Far!
''Gone Too Far!'' is a play written by Bola Agbaje.
It was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007, and won the Olivier Award
The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of L ...
'' with the
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, Englan ...
. In 2021, ATC’s commission ‘Family Tree’ by Mojisola Adebayo won the 25th Alfred Fagon Award, in a ceremony held at the National Theatre.
The company pursues a policy of internationalism — making theatre collaboratively with artists from abroad, as well as with the voices of the global nations with the UK.
Matthew Xia's tenure (2018 - present)
* 2021-2 Rice by Michele Lee, co-produced with Orange Tree Theatre, directed by Matthew Xia
* 2021 Family Tree by Mojisola Adebayo, co-produced with Greenwich & Docklands International Festival and Young Vic, directed by Matthew Xia
* 2021 Dear Tomorrow: Hope from Home, co-produced with Northern Stage, by Ameera Conrad, Satinder Chohan, Hannah Khalid, Nemo Martin, Chiméne Suleyman, Eve Leigh, directed by Matthew Xia and Natalie Ibu
* 2020 Dear Tomorrow by Maya Arad Yasur, Kimber Lee & Stephanie Street (letters of hope delivered during COVID lockdowns) directed by Matthew Xia
* 2019 Amsterdam by Maya Arad Yasur, co-produced with Orange Tree Theatre & Theatre Royal Plymouth. Richmond, 2019; tour, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID, production released via online streaming) directed by Matthew Xia
Roland Schimmelpfennig
Roland Schimmelpfennig (born 19 September 1967) is a German theatre director and playwright. His plays are performed in more than 40 countries.
Biography
Schimmelpfennig was born in Gottingen. He began his career as a journalist in Istanbul, b ...
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (, ; grc-gre, Αἰσχύλος ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek ...
Marius von Mayenburg
Marius von Mayenburg (born 21 February 1972 in Munich) is a German playwright and dramaturg.
Education
In 1994, Mayenburg began his studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. His first play, ''Haarmann (play) ...
Nassim Soleimanpour
Nassim Soleimanpour (born 10 December 1981 (19 Azar 1360 SH), is an Iranian playwright. He is best known for his 2010 play ''White Rabbit Red Rabbit''.
Early life and education
Soleimanpour was born in Tehran, Iran.''Hendelsen'' the Norwegian-language version of ''The Events'' by David Greig, translated by Oda Radoor, directed by Ramin Gray
* 2014 ''Chorale - A Sam Shepard Roadshow'' directed by Simon Usher
* 2013 ''Die Ereignisse'' the German-language version of ''The Events'' by David Greig, translated by Brigitte Auer, directed by Ramin Gray
* 2013 ''The Events'' by David Greig, directed by Ramin Gray
* 2012 ''The Broadwalk Trilogy'' comprising three short plays by Mikhail Durnenkov, Pavel Pryazhko, and Natal’ya Vorozhbit, directed by Ramin Gray and Sacha Wares
* 2012 ''Making the Sound of Loneliness'' created by
Jack Tarlton
Jack Tarlton (born 24 July 1976) is a Scottish actor from Edinburgh, know mainly for his Television work. From 2005 to 2006, he appeared as Meshak in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's ''Coram Boy
''Coram B ...
and Simon Usher, directed by Simon Usher
* 2012 ''Illusions'' by Ivan Viripaev, translated by Cazimir Liske, directed by Ramin Gray
* 2012 - '' Crave'' by
Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological ...
, directed by Ramin Gray
* 2012 ''Wild Swans'' adapted by Alex Woods from the memoir by
Jung Chang
Jung Chang (, , born 25 March 1952) is a Chinese-British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography ''Wild Swans'', selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China.
Her 832-page ...
, directed by Sacha Wares
* 2011 ''The Golden Dragon'' by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Ramin Gray
Tom Holloway
Tom Holloway is an Australian playwright, based in Melbourne .
Holloway's plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including ''Beyond the Neck'' at Belvoir St Theatre (2007), ''Red Sky Morning'' at Red Stitch Actors Theat ...
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is best known as the author of ''Her Naked Skin'' (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of ...
, directed by Bijan Sheibani
* 2010 ''Eurydice'' by
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are ''Eurydice'' (2003), '' The Clean House'' (2004), and ''In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)'' (2009). She has been the rec ...
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...
, in a new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Bijan Sheibani
* 2008 - ''The Brothers Size'' by
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney (born October 17, 1980) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He is the chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble.
He co-wrote the 2016 film ''Moonlight ( ...
, directed by Bijan Sheibani
* 2008 - ''
Gone Too Far!
''Gone Too Far!'' is a play written by Bola Agbaje.
It was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007, and won the Olivier Award
The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of L ...
'' by
Bola Agbaje
Bola Agbaje is a British-born playwright of Nigerian origin.
, directed by Bijan Sheibani
* 2007 - ''The Brothers Size'' by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Bijan Sheibani
Spin-off
* 2009- ''Young Blood'', play readings in co-production with The Writers Company
* 2009- ''Lorca: A Dark River'', as part of the Spanish Film Festival
* 2008- Directing Workshops
* 2008- ''Play Size'', collaborative pieces with
The Young Vic
The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut (London), The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop (director), Frank Dunlop in 1970. Kwame Kwei-Armah has b ...
* 2008- ''Going Far!''
* 2008- ''Have We Gone Too Far?''
* 2008- ''A Slam Too Far''
* 2007- ''Panel Size''
* 2007- ''Play Size'', collaborative pieces with The Young Vic
* 2007- ''Poets Size'', co-produced with
Apples and Snakes
Apples and Snakes, based at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, south-east London, is an organisation for performance poetry and the spoken word in England. It has been described as the main organisation promoting performance poetry in Britain. S ...
John Kolvenbach
John Kolvenbach is an American playwright. His plays have been performed on the West End (''Love Song,'' ''on an average day'') and all over the world, including productions in Rome, Sydney, Wellington, Seoul, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, Zurich, San Jua ...
Rainald Goetz
Rainald Maria Goetz (born 24 May 1954, in Munich) is a German author, playwright and essayist.
Biography
After studying History and Medicine in Munich and earning a degree (PhD and M.D) in each, he soon concentrated on his writing.
His first p ...
Simon Stephens
Simon Stephens (born 6 February 1971) is an English playwright and Professor of Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic ...
, directed by Gordon Anderson
* 2003 ''Excuses!'' by
Joel Joan
Joel Joan i Juvé (; born 2 November 1970) is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and director.
Biography
Joan studied dramatic arts at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He began his acting career on the stage, appearing in productions directed by ...
Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès (; 9 April 1948 – 15 April 1989) was a French playwright and theatre director best known for his plays ''La Nuit juste avant les Forêts'' (''The Night Just Before the Forests'', 1976), ''Sallinger'' (1977) and ''Dans la ...
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy (born 6 August 1959) is a British novelist, playwright and poet. She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre – her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company – before focusing on prose fiction. Her early nov ...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill (born 7 June 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist.
Ravenhill is one of the most widely performed playwrights in British theatre of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His major plays include ''Shoppin ...
, directed by Nick Philippou
* 1997 ''Orpheus'' by
Kenneth McLeish
John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish (1940-1997) was a British writer, playwright and translator. McLeish, "the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain", translated all the surviving classical Greek pla ...
, directed by Nick Philippou
* 1997 ''Faust'' with Pete Bailie and Alain Pelletier, text by Mark Ravenhill, directed by Nick Philippou
* 1996 ''The Belle Vue'' by Ödön von Horváth, translated by Kenneth McLeish, directed by Nick Philippou
* 1996 ''Miss Julie'' by
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...
Euripides
Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian
Tragedy (from the grc-gre, τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', ''tragōidia'') is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful e ...
, translated by Kenneth McLeish, directed by Nick Philippou
* 1993 ''Celestina'' attributed to
Fernando de Rojas
Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465/73, in La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, Spain – April 1541, in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain) was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, '' La Celestina'' (originally titled ''Trag ...
, adapted by Max Hafler and Nick Philippou, directed by Nick Philippou
* 1993 ''The Maids'' by
Jean Genet
Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels ''The Thief's ...
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and litera ...
Eugène Marin Labiche
Eugène Marin Labiche (6 May 181522 January 1888) was a French dramatist. He remains famous for his contribution to the vaudeville genre and his passionate and domestic pochads.
In the 1860s, he reached his peak with a series of successes i ...
Lope de Vega
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio ( , ; 25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature ...
, directed by Ceri Sherlock
* 1991 ''La Ronde'' by
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.
Biography
Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy ...
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...
, translated by Robert David MacDonald, directed by Ceri Sherlock
* 1990 ''Phaedra'' by Marina Tsvetayeva directed by Ceri Sherlock
* 1989 ''The Triumph of Love'' by
Pierre de Marivaux
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist.
He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing nume ...
, directed by Ceri Sherlock
* 1989 ''Cleopatra and Antony'' by William Shakespeare, directed by Malcolm Edwards
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his f ...
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world ...
, directed by Mark Brickman
* 1986 ''Hamlet'' by William Shakespeare, directed by Mark Brickman
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, ...
, directed by John Retallack
* 1984 ''A Doll's House'' by Henrik Ibsen, in a version by Michael Meyer, directed by John Retallack
* 1984 ''Twelfth Night'' by William Shakespeare, directed by John Retallack
* 1984 ''Peer Gynt'' by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Mark Brickman and John Retallack
* 1983 ''Don Juan'' adapted by Nigel Gearing and John Retallack, directed by John Retallack
* 1982 ''Ubu the Vandalist'' freely adapted from ''
Ubu Roi
''Ubu Roi'' (; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre at the Nouveau-Théâtre (today, the Théâtre de P ...
'' by
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, ...
John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restora ...
John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restora ...
The Man Without Qualities
''The Man Without Qualities'' (german: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.
The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in th ...
'' by
Robert Musil
Robert Musil (; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, ''The Man Without Qualities'' (german: link=no, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most important ...
Don Quixote
is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...
'' by
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 Old Style and New Style dates, NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-emin ...
, directed by John Retallack
* 1978 - ''Don Juan''