SIZE OF COMPANY 6–12 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE Small- to middle-scale
PERMANENT STAFF Artistic Director Anthony Clark
Executive Director Bryan Savery
ARTISTIC POLICY Hampstead Theatre Company finds, develops and produces new plays of quality, for as diverse an audience as possible. Occasionally innovative productions of the classics will also be mounted if there is an artistic imperative to do so. Its productions seek to entertain and inform audiences by defining and enriching their lives whilst introducing them to the possibilities of the medium.
REVIEW EXTRACTS 'Simple yet immensely powerful ideas, presented with shattering lucidity.' The Times (Everything Is Illuminated)
'Something remarkable has happened at Hampstead Theatre… a brilliantly assured drama of ideas and passions.' Daily Telegraph (The Rubenstein Kiss)
'A lovely production of a hauntingly sad and elegiaic play… breathtaking in its simplicity and depth of feeling.' Daily Telegraph (Comfort Me With Apples)
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS Everything Is Illuminated By Simon Block, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. A New York Jew, his Ukrainian translator, their blind driver and an unstable dog go in search of the past. (130 mins, 5 on stage, 6 on the road
Comfort Me With Apples By Nell Leyshon. A bittersweet, tender elegy to the lives of a rural family who are struggling to withstand the onslaught of the modern world. (135 mins, 5 on stage, 6 on the road)
WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY All productions can be supported by a fully integrated education programme, including writing and performance workshops.
TOURING AVAILABILITY Details on request.
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