Facsimile Productions
Encyclopedia
Facsimile Productions is an independent London
based theatre
production company who stage productions of new writing by their own resident writers as well as others. They also produce tours for the British Touring Shakespeare Company
.
The company was founded in 2002 by Andrew Hobbs who was previously Associate Producer at the British Touring Shakespeare Company
.
’s poetry collection The Unprintable S P Howarth. Facsimile Records have a roster that includes Country Al and his Lonesome Guitar and the Scarecrow Project.
London
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based theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
production company who stage productions of new writing by their own resident writers as well as others. They also produce tours for the British Touring Shakespeare Company
British Touring Shakespeare Company
The British Touring Shakespeare Company is a professional UK touring theatre company, based in Bristol, England.The company was founded in 1999 by Miles Gregory and Dominic Jinks, Master of Fine Art students at the University of Exeter...
.
The company was founded in 2002 by Andrew Hobbs who was previously Associate Producer at the British Touring Shakespeare Company
British Touring Shakespeare Company
The British Touring Shakespeare Company is a professional UK touring theatre company, based in Bristol, England.The company was founded in 1999 by Miles Gregory and Dominic Jinks, Master of Fine Art students at the University of Exeter...
.
Past Productions
- A Season Before The Tragedy of Macbeth (2010) by Gloria Carreno, Camden People's Theatre
- Bacchus In Rehab (2009) by Andrew Hobbs and S P Howarth, Etcetera TheatreEtcetera TheatreThe Etcetera Theatre is a fringe venue for theatre and comedy. It was founded in 1986 and is situated above The Oxford Arms pub in Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden....
- Rasputin Rocks! (2008) by Andrew Hobbs and Alistair Smith (Henley Festival)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2008) UK Tour with British Touring Shakespeare
- The Comedy of ErrorsThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is one of only two of Shakespeare's...
(2007) UK Tour with British Touring Shakespeare - Romeo and JulietRomeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
(2006) UK Tour with British Touring Shakespeare - The TempestThe TempestThe Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
(2005) UK Tour with British Touring Shakespeare - The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
(2004) UK Tour with British Touring Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2003) UK Tour and London season
- The Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1590 or 1591. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and tropes with which he would later deal in more...
(2003) UK Tour and London season
Other projects
Facsimile Publications will shortly be publishing Stephen HowarthStephen Howarth
Stephen Purbeck Howarth known as S.P. is a poet, Stuckist artist and actor. He was expelled from college for his paintings. He has demonstrated against the Turner prize at the Tate gallery.-Life and work:...
’s poetry collection The Unprintable S P Howarth. Facsimile Records have a roster that includes Country Al and his Lonesome Guitar and the Scarecrow Project.
Personnel
- Holly Berry – Associate Performer
- Una Buckley – Associate Director
- Emma Burn – Associate Performer
- Lucyelle Cliffe – Associate Producer and Casting Director
- Andrew Hobbs – Executive Producer, Artistic Director and Resident Writer
- Stephen HowarthStephen HowarthStephen Purbeck Howarth known as S.P. is a poet, Stuckist artist and actor. He was expelled from college for his paintings. He has demonstrated against the Turner prize at the Tate gallery.-Life and work:...
– Resident Writer and Associate Producer - Robert Paul – Associate Performer
- Anton ShelupanovAnton ShelupanovAnton Shelupanov is a Russo-British penal reformer, social innovator, musician and actor.-Life and work:Shelupanov was born in the Soviet Union in 1978. He is the son of Prof. Alexander Shelupanov. He came to the UK in the 1990s and was educated at St Hugh’s College, Oxford...
– Executive Producer and Associate Performer - Alistair Smith – Resident Composer