Debut:
Edinburgh Fringe, August 2024

Transfer:
Brixton House, October 2024

National Tour:
Theatre Royal, Bath
North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
Riverside Studios, London

Writer:
El Blackwood

Director & Dramaturg:
John Livesey

Lighting Designer:
Ros Chase

Score:
Sarah Spencer

Tending

There are 400,000 nurses in the NHS today. This is their story.

Based on over 70 interviews, Tending offers a heartbreaking, hilarious and very human look at the experience of those on the frontline of our health service.

Tending is a love letter to our National Health Service, created with the community who hold it up.

Press:
★★★★★ ‘Truly extraordinary’ – Scottish Field

★★★★★ ‘Compassionate…beautiful, and master-crafted’ - British Theatre Guide

★★★★ ‘One of the most timely plays of the Fringe’ - The Scotsman

★★★★★ ‘It should be performed in the Houses of Parliament’ - The Edinburgh Reporter

Winner of the Sit Up Award for Social Impact
Winner of the Derek Award
Nominated for Susan Blackburn Prize

Debut:
King’s Head Theatre, 2021

Transfer:
Bold Tendencies, 2022

Writer:
Vida Adamczewski

Director & Dramaturg:
John Livesey

Producer:
Isabelle Hayden

Score:
Louis Grace

Amphibian

Put your hands over your ears. Take a deep breath.
Can you hear that?

The babble of your gut.
The garbled pulsing of your heart.
In the very swamp of you, something is growing.

Vida Adamczewski’s lyric play explores the strange negotiations of a woman and her body as they shudder through pregnancy, girlhood, and growing up.

Press:
‘Dazzlingly inventive, alarming’ - Charlie Gilmour

Winner of the UEA New Forms Award 2022

Theatre:
Southwark Playhouse, 2021

Writer:
Thomas Eccleshare

Director:
John Livesey

Video Designer:
Dan Light

Lighting Designer:
Ros Chase

Heather

Can you separate a story from the story-teller?

A children’s book becomes a surprise success but its reclusive writer remains in the shadows. Slowly, a secret begins to emergs: a disturbing truth that might just change everything.

Heather is a riveting play by Thomas Eccleshare, interrogating our understanding of identity, celebrity and the power of stories. It is guaranteed to keep you guessing and leave you on the edge of your seat.

Theatre:
Guildhall School, 2022

Writer:
Thomas Eccleshare

Director:
John Livesey

Video Designer:
Dan Light

Assistant Director:
Laura Henderson-Child

I’m Not Here
Right Now

‘She knows because she saw him... even if she can never prove it‘

Claire Sahakian knows she has seen something in the mountains: a huge figure emerging from the blizzard. But can she trust her own perceptions? And how far will she go to fight for what she believes?

This is a thrilling story about competing realities: fact and fiction, doubt and conviction. It is an edge-of-your-seat-thriller, a family drama, a snowy fantasy, and a theatrical provocation.

Presented at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Debut:
Burton Taylor Studio, 2017

Transfer:
Seven Dials Playhouse, 2019

Writer:
debbie tucker green

Director:
John Livesey

Lighing Designer:
Jonathan Chan

Producer:
Sade Clarke

random

Mum cooks, Dad sleeps. Sister hustles. Brother is late to School.

Another normal day in the life of one family. Until it isn’t. By lunchtime, one random act has changed everything, forever.

A revival of debbie tucker green’s powerful 2008 play about knife crime.

Press:
★★★★ ‘impeccably staged... Francesca Amewudah-Rivers has the entire theatre in the palm of her hand’ – Within Her Words

★★★★★‘poignant and essential’ - Broadway World

Shortlisted for the National Student Drama Festival 2020

John Livesey

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