Past Productions
Woyzeck
WOYZECK by GEORG BUCHNER A brand new adaptation by Scene Productions Running time: approx 1hr plus optional 20 minute Q&A We dare you to take a journey into the macarbe world of Woyzeck. A startling depiction of the lowly soldier plagued by visions of the apocalypse and plunged into homicidal lunacy by the world around [...]
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE’S – Dr Faustus
(Sept 2009 – May 2010) This workshop has been designed to give students a taster of three distinctive practitioners to help inform their devising and scripted work. We take a ten minute section of the play and perform that same section three times with set props, music and costume in three different practitioner styles: 1hr [...]
BERTOLD BRECHT’S – The Threepenny Opera
Music by KURT WEILL Book & Lyrics by BERTOLD BRECHT English adaptation by MARC BLITZSTEIN Presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD on behalf of R&H THEATRICALS of New York Directed by Katharine Hurst & Kelly Taylor Smith (1hr 15minutes Performance) Toured Sept 2009 – May 2010 ‘The performance was simply outstanding! The best touring [...]
The Other Side
Scene Productions are proud to announce their sister company; ‘Scene’ and their first devised piece ‘The Other Side’ directed by Gavin Robertson; which celebrated its world premiere at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival at The Gilded Balloon. No Longer Taking Bookings: (Toured 2009 – June 2010) The show received amazing reviews and overwhelming feedback from [...]
BERTOLT BRECHT’S – ‘Fear And Misery Of The Third Reich’
BERTOLT BRECHT’S – ‘Fear And Misery Of The Third Reich’ Translation by JOHN WILLETT, presented by arrangement with ALAN BRODIE REPRESENTATION LIMITED. This play (originally 24 scenes) shows in both a disturbing and at times surprisingly amusing way, how “ordinary life” under the Nazis was permeated by defiance, secrecy, suspicion, anxiety, denial, violence, fear and [...]
BERTOLT BRECHT’S – The Exception and the Rule
Translation by RALPH MANHEIM, Presented by arrangement with ALAN BRODIE REPRESENTATION LIMITED Directed by Katharine Hurst & Kelly Taylor. “Behind the gangs of bandits, follow courts and judges. And when an unoffending man is killed, Judges gather over his remains and accuse the dead. Over the murdered man’s grave, They murder his rights” (The Exception [...]
BERTOLT BRECHT’S – ‘Man Equals Man’
Translation by GERHARD NELLHAUS, presented by arrangement with ALAN BRODIE REPRESENTATION LIMITED Directed by Tracy Collier ‘Herr Bertolt Brecht maintains man equals man – A view that has been around since time began. But then Herr Brecht points out how far one can, manoeuvre and manipulate that man.’ ‘Tonight you will see a man reassembled [...]
SOPHOCLES – ‘Antigone’
This was a five hander, allowing students to see the classic Greek text brought to life in a contemporary context. The production was set in the court of King Creon, ornately decorated with three stark red banners, the middle banner outlining the decree. The colours were used to suggest a tyrannical regime, using symbols similar [...]
BERTOLT BRECHT’S – ‘The Threepenny Opera’
toured Autumn 2005 – Spring 2006 Music by KURT WEILL, English adaptation by MARC BLITZSTEIN, Presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED On behalf of R&H THEATRICALS of New York First performed in Berlin in 1928, Scene Productions brought Brecht’s most successful production to schools across the country. In the Victorian underworld of beggars, prostitutes [...]
‘The Good Person of Szechwan’ – BERTOLT BRECHT’S
Translation by JOHN WILLETT, presented by arrangement with ALAN BRODIE REPRESENTATION LIMITED What is a good person? How are they defined? By their ability to uphold the commandments? By faith? By love? By honesty? By doing the best they can? It is a simple question that, when fully manifested into the mind, takes on profound [...]
