Founded in 2002 by Producer, Artistic Director, Writer and Teacher of Performance Studies, Valerie Doulton, The Live Literature Company is dedicated to communicating the literary and artistic heritage of the world through performances of excellence at a price affordable for everyone.  The company, also on occasion gives free performances.

Their inuaugral performance was of BYRON IN LOVE in the room where Byron met Lady Caroline Lamb, thus re-creating history.  This production toured Internationally to Verona, and again recreated history in Summer 2009, when performances were given at The Monserrate Palace, Sintra, Portugal, 200 years after Byron's visit there.  Other International work includes FIRST LOVE by Samuel Beckett for The International Beckett Festival, Berlin.

Valerie Doulton has staged the work of William Blake and John Milton in Combined Arts programmes for the company which combine the spoken word with visual image, dance and music. She has also directed work on the Brontes, Jane Austen and Shakespeare, which the company has performed at major literary festivals in the UK and on tour to Verona. Prior to forming the Live Literature Company, Valerie directed work at The Royal National Theatre, London, from which her production of Samuel Beckett's FIRST LOVE toured to the International Beckett Festival in Berlin. Work in music includes staging Stravinsky's SOLDIER'S TALE. Valerie has written five plays which have all been staged.

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