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Founding Members: Alexander McConnell and Kyra Williams Alexander and Kyra trained together as actors at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and in 1998 they formed Little London Theatre Company. It was founded with the help of Derek Jacobi and Richard Wilson, among others, and was set up with the aim of providing a platform for new writing led theatre. Productions have included: Got The Map? a new play by Ben Goodman (Finborough); Glowing Manikin by Kerstin Specht (Actors Centre); The Other Chekhov – new translations of 4 Chekhov shorts (Rose and Crown); Nevsky Prospectors, based on short stories by Tolstoy and Gogol adapted by Ben Goodman (Actors Centre); True For Ever and George VI In Heaven (Given There’s a God) by Andrew Neil (Old Red Lion); the 25th anniversary production of The Man Himself by Alan Drury (Old Red Lion); The Usual Table consisting of premieres of new translations by Alan Drury of Strindberg's The Stronger, Pirandello's The Man With A Flower In His Mouth and a new Alan Drury play, Afters, directed by Sebastian Graham-Jones at The Landor Theatre; Russia Poetry and Prose performed by the renowned St. Petersburg actor, Efim Kamenetski (Old Red Lion); Bottlenecks by Andrew Neil (King’s Head and Merlin Theatre, Budapest); Four By Four, consisting of four monologues - Martin by Alan Drury, Matching Clothes by Jane Elson, Burning Bright by Seamus Finnegan and Once Upon A Time In Tring by Andrew Neil (Soho Theatre studio); a staged reading of Life, by Andrew Neil featuring David de Keyser (Soho Theatre studio); a reading of Susannah And The Other Elders a new play by David de Keyser; After Chekhov consisting of four short plays to mark the centenary of Anton Chekhov’s death, commissioned from Alan Drury, Martin James, Andrew Neil and Olwen Wymark (Soho Theatre studio); and most recently Starters an evening of new writing with monologues by Alan Drury, Sarah Jane O’Neill, Martin Stankov and Sebastian Shaw presented at the Tristan Bates Theatre.
Little London Theatre Company does not receive any funding
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