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Production:The Duchess of Malfi
Description:

St George’s Theatre London 1989 [vladeksheybal.com].


Author:John Webster
Director:Andrew Visnevski
The Duchess of Malfi
Set Design:Barbara Hook
Costume Design:Barbara Hook
Composer:Simon Rackham

Additional Contributors


Other1:Lighting Design: Ben Ormerod
Stage Management: Alison Hall

Other2Choreography of masques: Anthony Best

Actors


Mary Keegan, Jane van Hool, Nicholas Wolff, Paul Hegarty, Anthony Best, Anthony Wise, Stuart Bowman, Andrew Frame
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# Production Name: Description: Writer / Translator:
1 Life is a Dream

Theatre Space London 1978, Action Space, The Young Vic London 1979.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (adapted by Andrew Visnevski)
2 The Two Noble Kinsmen

Edinburgh 1979, The Young Vic, National tour Buxton, Harrogate and Stuttgart Festivals 1980.

William Shakespeare and John Fetcher
3 Barabbas

St Martin-in-the-Fields, Southwark Cathedral, The Young Vic Studio 1980.

Michel de Ghelderode
4 Kafka’s THE TRIAL (World première)

Edinburgh Fringe First, The Young Vic, National and International tours 1980-82 incl Holland, Belgium and Israel.

Adapted for the stage by Andrew Visnevski
5 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Theatre Space, Upstream Theatre, National Tour, Buxton and Berne Festivals 1981/2.

Thomas Middleton
6 Macbeth

Edinburgh, National and International tours 1981/3.

William Shakespeare
7 Journal of the Plague Year (World première)

Upstream Theatre, London 1981.

Peter Fincham after Daniel Defoe
8 Coming Ashore in Guadeloupe (World première)

Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, Upstream Theatre London, National tour 1981/2.

John Spurling
9 Twelfth Night

Upstream Theatre London, National and International tours 1982 -1989 incl Egypt, Spain, Germany, Iraq, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe.

William Shakespeare
10 Cyrano de Bergerac

Upstream Theatre London 1983.

Edmond Rostand, English text Brian Hooker
11 Unicorn Unchained (World première)

Upstream Theatre London 1983.

Kate Vandegrift
12 The Gold Sarcophagus (World première)

Upstream Theatre London 1983.

Roxanne Shafer
13 Hamlet

Upstream Theatre London 1983, National tour 1984.

William Shakespeare
14 As You Like It

Edinburgh 1984, Upstream Theatre London, tour and Karlsruhe Festival.

William Shakespeare, Edited by Andrew Visnevski
15 Come the Revolution (World première)

Upstream Theatre London 1985.

Roxanne Shafer
16 Kafka’s THE CASTLE (World première)

Edinburgh, St George’s Theatre London, National tour 1985.

Adapted for the stage by Andrew Visnevski
17 Kafka’s THE TRIAL (World première)

An opera by Stephen Edwards; Dartington Summer School 1986.

Libretto by Lyn Williams from the play by Andrew Visnevski
18 The Old Country (Pakistan première)

Islamabad, Pakistan 1988.

Alan Bennett
19 The Duchess of Malfi

St George’s Theatre London 1989 [vladeksheybal.com].

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20 Dithyrambos, A Song for the Twice-Born

Bloomsbury Theatre, Jackson’s Lane Community Centre, London 1992.

Original multiform spectacle by Andrew Visnevski based on Greek myths
21 The Butcher of Baghdad (World première)

Latchmere Theatre London (now Theatre 502) 1993.

John Spurling
22 The Emperor of the Moon

Hoxton Hall London, The Canterbury Festival - Gulbenkian Theatre 1993.

Aphra Behn
23 Swann Among the Sirens

Tricycle Theatre London 1994.

A celebration of Greek music by Donald Swann and Andrew Visnevski
24 Maria (World première)

New End Theatre London 1995.

Anna Maria Grabania, written for Fenella Fielding
25 The Tempest

National tour, Antwerp Festival 1996.

William Shakespeare
26 Ten Days’ A-Maze (World première)

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1997.

Vi Marriott, after Jan Potocki
27 The Life of Edward the Second of England

Collaboration with The Acting Co of Arts Ed. London: BAC, Riverside Studios, The Place London and National tour 1998/9.

Bertolt Brecht, with Lion Feuchtwanger
28 Brundibár

DEGENERATE! 2001 season to commemorate victims of the Holocaust: Riverside Studios London, National tour.

an opera by Hans Krása
29 Kafka’s THE TRIAL (new production)

DEGENERATE! 2001 season to commemorate victims of the Holocaust: Riverside Studios London, National tour.

Adapted for the stage by Andrew Visnevski
30 Kafka’s THE TRIAL (new production)

Stratford Circus and The Tabard, London 2002.

Adapted for the stage by Andrew Visnevski
31 The Master and Margarita (World première)

25th Anniversary Season and opening of the new Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre London in 2003.

Andrew Visnevski with Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard, after Mikhail Bulgakov
32 Akhmatova’s Salted Herring (World première)

25th Anniversary Season and opening of the new Menier Theatre London in 2003.

Jeff Lewis
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