Introducing The Live Literature Company
Founded in 2002 by Producer, Artistic Director, Writer and Teacher of Performance Studies, Valerie Doulton. The Live Literature Company is dedicated to communicating the Artistic Heritage of the world, both classic and contemporary, through performances of excellence, at affordable prices. The company also occasionally gives free performances.
Celebration for Rabindranath Tagore 2011 at The British Library & The Nehru Centre
Left: Val Doulton with the musician and cast of 'The Post Office' production, after the company's great success at The British Library in May, with the Live Lit. Company performances in celebration of Tagore's 150th Birth Anniversary.
Front Row; Val with the children in the production. Back Row from right to left Edward Halsted, Nicola Tagoe, Amerjit Deu, Lawrence Anthony, Harmage Singh Kalirai
COMBINED ARTS MILTON PROGRAMME - spoken word, song, dance, visual image.
Right: The cast with Val Doulton at The Banqueting House, just before opening the Combined Arts Milton programme there in 2010. From left to right, Margo Cargill, Dave Fishley, Spencer Cowan, Richard Hansell, Lucy Casson, Henry Moss. The concert pianist Sam Haywood is not in the picture. These performances included a script written by Val especially for The Banqueting House, in the voices of Cromwell, Milton’s inner and outer voices, and the voices of King Charles I and King Charles II.
The Live Literature Company has also recreated history in other exciting Site Specific work:-
- Their opening production in 2002 when ‘Byron in Love’ written by Anne Fleming, was performed at Melbourne House, Whitehall, in the room where Byron met Lady Caroline Lamb. This production went on to tour Internationally to Verona, Italy, and The Monserrate Palace, Sintra, 200 years after Byron’s visit there.
- Their Bronte production written by Douglas Verrall with performances at Haworth.
- Their Jane Austen production with performances in Bath.
- Val’s devised Shakespeare programme, ‘Shakespeare’s Kings and Queens’, with performances at The National Portrait Gallery.
- Val’s devised programme for International Women’s Day, with performances at The National Portrait Gallery.
Productions on the work of William Blake, featuring the spoken word, visual image, dance and music, at major literary festival in the U.K. Other International work includes:- First Love by Samuel Beckett, which opened at The National Theatre and toured to Berlin for The International Beckett Festival.
Combined Arts Productions include:-
Tower of London Student Work
The Live Literature Company are proud to support the work of our next generation of talented young performers.
Left: 'Henry V111 crowns Anne Boleyn queen, in our wonderful promenade Shakespeare performances this July at The Tower of London'. 3,000 tourists watched Niagara University perform this work staged by Val
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