Previous Red Shift Productions
Photo credit: Gerald Murray
The company was founded in 1982 by its current Artistic Director, Jonathan Holloway, and a theatre designer, Charlotte Humpston. Both were concerned to make a space for a form of theatre which drew on European influences to marry traditional narrative and character based drama with art-house performance which employs design, image and spectacle.
The result was to bring accessible story-based theatre characterized by innovative and unusual use of the actors' physicality and the manipulation of designed objects to a broad audience throughout the country. The company has achieved this and maintained a thorough-going commitment to presenting its work in the most modest spaces including rural communities and inner city venues not frequented by the mainstream theatregoer.
Production history
1982 THE MASK: A TALE OF GOTHIC HORROR by Dave Fox
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
1983 THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (II)
1984 BROKEN ENGLISH:OR BRITAIN IN 1994
1985 ROMEO & JULIET
1986 THE DOUBLE adapted from Dostoevsky by J Holloway
SPRING AWAKENING by Frank Wedekind
1987 THE MILL ON THE FLOSS adapted from George Eliot by R Brown
IN THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST by J Holloway
1988 COWBOYS by Annie Caulfield
LE MISANTHROPE adapted from Moliere by Neil Bartlett
1989 FRIDA AND DIEGO by Greg Cullen
ROAD by Jim Cartwright
1990 LULU adapted from Wedekind by Steve Gooch
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH adapted from Samuel Butler by J Holloway
1991 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FANNY HILL by April de Angelis
THE HAMMER by J Holloway
1992 THE MACBETH PROJECT - site specific event
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH (revival)
ORLANDO by Robin Brooks
CHRISTMAS CAROL (corporate event)
1993 MACBETH
1994 DEATH IN VENICE adapted from Thomas Mann by J Holloway
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT adapted from Dostoevsky by J Holloway
1995 GEORGE DANDIN adapted from Moliere by Ranjit Bolt
RED PRINCESS by Nicholas McInnerny
HANSEL AND GRETEL co-production with Pop-Up TC
1996 BARTLEBY adapted from Herman Melville by Larry Lane
1997 LES MISERABLES adapted from Victor Hugo by J Holloway
1998 THE ASPERN PAPERS adapted from Henry James by J Holloway
POOR MRS PEPYS by Vanessa Brooks
1999 - 2000 HAMLET:FIRST CUT
2000 NOSFERATU THE VISITOR a new play by J Holloway
2001 THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY adapted from GK Chesterton's novel by J Holloway and guest directed by Ben Harrison
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY adapted from Charles dickens by J Holloway 2002 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY spring tour
THE LOVE CHILD adpated from Edith Olivier's novella by Lavinia Murray and directed by J Holloway
2003 THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR adapted from Thomas Mallory's Mort D'Arthur by J Holloway and choreographed by Paul Sadot.
2004 BARTLEBYa revival of Red Shift's 1996 Edinburgh Festival hit. Adapted from Herman Melville's novella by R.L.Lane and directed by J Holloway.
THE THIRD MAN adapted by J Holloway from Graham Greene's acclaimed thriller. The first part of Red Shift's Picture House triptych of productions adapted from novels that spawned major motion pictures.
2005 THE THIRD MAN spring tour
GET CARTER by Ted Lewis. Adapted & Directed by J Holloway
2006 GET CARTER spring tour
VERTIGO by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Adapted and directed by J Holloway
2007 VERTIGO Spring tour