Monday, 9 March 2020
Coram Boy
Adapted by Helen Edmundson
At Gloucester Cathedral
Tuesday 28th - Thursday 30th May 2019, 7pm
Jenny Wren Productions present a large-scale production of Jamila Gavin's epic tale of friendship and love, sacrifice and betrayal, parents and children, in 18th century Gloucestershire.
Burke and Hare goes to London
Exciting news for Jenny Wren Productions!
Our 2015 show Burke and Hare was taken on by the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, who produced the show this spring, both at the Watermill and on tour. We worked with them to develop our show and our script, and it can be seen later this year, in November, at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. It is also being translated into German for a production in Munich!
Love Lies Bleeding
A world premiere by Jamila Gavin!
Jenny Wren Productions have teamed up with award-winning Stroud-based author and playwright Jamila Gavin (whose novel Coram Boy was adapted for the stage and produced to great acclaim at both the National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic) to present Love Lies Bleeding, a world premiere, which we will tour locally, finishing up with a run at the Everyman Theatre June 13-16.
The Jungle Book
Adapted by Elise Heaven and Jenny Wicks
Warning! Wild animals at large! Watch your back around the Cotswolds this summer as Jenny Wren Productions let wolves, tigers, bears, and even a python loose at a theatre near you.
Remember, Remember
By Holly Tonks.In the back room of a London pub, an unlikely group of men plot to overthrow King James I.
Burke And Hare
How many times can one actor get killed during one performance? Find out in this brand new comedy based on the infamous tale of William Burke and William Hare.
Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
Greetings from Illyria! Jenny Wren Productions invite you to join us on our jaunt into the land of Shakespeare.
The Mysterious Gentleman
John Nevil Maskelyne was a master magician. His illustrious career began when he exposed charlatan spiritualists in Cheltenham Town Hall.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson
"Holmes, this is no time to panic."
"Goodness me, Watson, this is the perfect time to panic!"
Oliver Twist
By Jeremy Brock
‘The scene, the workhouse; the time, night; and the place, that cruel hole where miserable drabs gave birth... A boy was born there… I speak of one named Oliver Twist.’
Brief Encounter
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Adapted by Emma Rice, of Kneehigh Theatre Company
"I've got something in my eye."
"Please let me look. I happen to be a doctor."
Out of the Mist
OUT OF THE MIST
by Alan Tyson
Sunday, 8 March 2020
The Pickwick Papers
Members of the Pickwick Club… Welcome to you all! In this year of Charles Dickens’ bicentenary, Jenny Wren Productions bring you an action-packed adaptation of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers.
Funny Boy
Jenny Wren Productions return to the Everyman Studio Theatre with Funny Boy, a new play developed from last year’s The Pygmalion Project.
The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
By Simone Benmussa, translated by Barbara Wright
"A strange life his was, and mysterious – mysterious, because when he died, we learnt that Albert was a woman."
Paved With Gold: The Street Child'S Tale
“Morning Chronicle! Get your Morning Chronicle here!”
Victorian London. A newspaper boy eagerly awaits the latest instalment of London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew.
Around the World in 80 Days
“I shall bet twenty thousand pounds… that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less. That is, in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.”
The Pygmalion Project
"You have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change them into a quite different human being… It’s the most absorbing experiment I ever tackled."
The Three Musketeers
Mesdames et Messieurs! Jenny Wren Productions transporte vous à 17th century Paris avec The Three Musketeers, classique tale of D’Artagnan et ses amis.
Dr Korczak'S Example
By David Grieg“If it weren’t for you, Dr Korczak, and for the home, I would never have known that there are honest people in the world. That I can tell the truth. That there is justice.”
A Child in the Forest
by David Goodland from Winifred Foley
"Wild, sweet days, spent in a small mining village in the Forest of Dean... Before the motor car had taken over from the horse and cart and before they built the Severn Bridge."
Friday, 6 March 2020
A Servant of Two Masters
The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer made modern by Phil Woods
Hot on the heels of their recent open-air tour of Sense and Sensibility, Gloucestershire-based Jenny Wren Productions bring Chaucer to raucous life in their Other Space debut.
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen, adapted by Elaine MitchellThe perfect start to the summer… Gloucestershire-based theatre company Jenny Wren Productions return with a dramatisation of Jane Austen’s classic novel.
The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde
From the company that brought you the sell-out Cider with Rosie in 2005 comes Oscar Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people”. Jack and Algernon earnestly attempt to be Earnest to woo their sweethearts and gain the approval of the formidable Lady Bracknell. Join Jenny Wren Productions for lashings of wit and cucumber sandwiches.
Cider With Rosie
“Never to be forgotten, that first long secret drink of golden fire, juice of those valleys and of that time, wine of wild orchards, of russet summer, of plump red apples and Rosie’s burning cheeks…”
The Firebird
A troubled empress has three sons and a kingdom to bequeath. Not only has she to decide which of her sons is the most deserving, but a bird is stealing the cherry blossom from all the trees in Japan.