Pentabus collection

Two copies, annotated.

Two copies, one with details for Stanton Village Hall performance.

Adaptation by Peter Cann

Typescript, 53 pages, with additional notes re stage set up and props list. Also list of company contact names and addresses.

[Selection shown]

Toured locally spring 1989 followed by national tour spring 1990.

Three different versions.

[Selection shown]

''An irreverent comedy with original music on the theme of George Orwell's famous book, 1984''.

See newspaper cuttings [8872/4/1/2].

Donated by Jonathan Cross.

Written by Peter Terson.

Marked as 1984 but Annual Report 1989-1990 notes that it toured Winter 1989 [8872/1/3/6].

The show toured locally Spring 1989 and nationally Autumn 1990.

[See programme for Becca's Children 8872/2/45/3]

Part of Pentabus's work with special needs groups, "the production visited several special needs centres among its sixteen performances"

Marked as 1987 but recorded as touring 1989 [8872/1/3/6].

[Selection shown]

Adapted by Stephan Dinsdale.

Script with covering letter from Steve Dinsdale, Sept 1990.

[Selection shown]

Written by Peter Cann and directed by Steve Johnstone.

Two copies, one with annotations.

[Selection shown]

Devised by Sheila Young. Scripted by Peter Cann and Therese Collins. Directed by Marian Lawrence. All parts played by Sheila Young.

Typescript, 38 pages.

Two copies, one with technical notes.

[Selection shown]

Written by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Peter Cann.

Programme and script.

Toured the West Midlands, Nov 1991-Feb 1992 (dates given on programme for Different Drums).

Typescript, 28 pages.

[Selection shown]

Written by Therese Collins and Peter Cann.

Directed by Steve Johnstone.

[Selection shown]

Print of mask ready to cut out and make.

Performed at Stokesay Castle.

Noted as 1992 but dates on programme indicate 1993.

Written by David Calcott.

Directed by Steve Johnstone

''Presented by Pentabus Theatre Company, Lichfield Youth Theatre and the young people of Lichfield''

Printed plus photocopied version.

[Selection shown]

Written by Therese Collins.

Toured Autumn 1993 and Spring 1995.

Toured again in Spring 1995

With some annotation.

4 versions.

[Selection shown]

Written by Peter Cann and Therese Collins.

51 pages.

Touring Nov 1993 - Feb 1994.

[Black and white version of image shown]

[Selection shown]

Written by Peter Cann and directed by Steve Johnstone.

Including information on funding, publicity, plot synopsis, reviews of past shows and previews of future shows, venue list.

[Selection shown]

''The fate of a civilisation at a village fete - classical street theatre''

Also mentions The Greeks.

Donated by Jonathan Cross.

Show for schools.

Outline for The Greeks as at 1996; ''a sort of script'' and chorus

With reviews from 1995

Sketch and prints

4 forms

[Selection shown]

Written by Sarah Woods and directed by Steve Johnstone.

Touring Nov 1994 to Feb 1995

[Selection shown]

Written by Abel Neves and Therese Collins.

A collaboration between Pentabus and Teatro Regional da Serra do Montemuro (T.R.S.M.), a company which tours the mountains of central Portugal. Bi-lingual, two man show.

See also The Wright Stuff programme 1999 [8872/2/77/4]

2 versions

[Selection shown]

Written by Peter Cann and young writers workshop group.

Directed by Steve Johnstone.

Performed at Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire.

See also slides (8872/8)

Written by David Calcutt and directed by Steve Johnstone

3 copies - annotated

[Selection shown]

Written by Peter Cann and directed by Steve Johnstone.

Previewed in The Map of Marvels programme - touring from Feb 1996.

Feb 1996 and Apr 1997

Concord College

[Selection shown]

Written by Therese Collins and directed by Steve Johnstone.

Touring from Oct 1996

[Selection shown]

Directed by Andrew Bannerman and Steve Johnstone.

Mar 1997

Two photographs showing masked performer for Mad Blood Stirring, ''Shakespeare for KS3''.

The Shropshire Drama Centre’s summer production.

Written by Peter Cann.

Directed by Steve Johnstone, Peter Cann and Andrew Bannerman.

annotated

[Selection shown]

Written by Christine Watkins and directed by Steve Johnstone.

Including production brief, between Pentabus Theatre Company and Christine Watkins, to write the play provisionally titled ''The Biker King'' (April 1991)

1st draft, May 1997 and 3rd draft Sep 1997.

Original artwork by Kate Hawkins, Kinnersley Castle Studio, with covering letter re its submission for use in publicity.

[Selection shown]

Educational show for primary schools (''solo T.I.E. programme'').

[Selection shown]

Adapted by Peter Cann and directed by Steve Johnstone.

Youth residency show, performed at Ludlow Castle.

2 copies (different versions?)

[Selection shown]

Written by Andrew Bannerman.

including annotations, drafts and revised versions

Sep 1998

Written by Alex Jones.

final draft, July 1998

[Selection shown]

Painting depicting a carved wooden spoon with a heart on - possibly unused artwork for Heart of the Wood.

Written and directed by Rikki Tarascas.

[Selection shown]

Including audience response statistics.

Co-produced by About Face and Pentabus.

Performed at Burgess Street Chapel, Leominter.

Written by Peter Cann and directed by Steve Johnstone.

2 copies

Includes notes by Peter Cann about Pentabus work with Teatro Regional Da Sierra Da Montemura in Portugal.

[Selection shown]

Written by Alex Jones and directed by Theresa Heskins.

Theresa Heskins’ first production for Pentabus since becoming Artistic Director earlier in the year (from programme).

[Selection shown]

Written by Lorna Laidlow.

Touring December and January (from programme for the Bridge 8872/2/78/2).

second draft

[Selection shown]

See also slides (8872/8)

Written by Janice Connolly.

Touring March and April 2000 (from The Bridge programme).

[Selection shown]

Performed at Ludlow Castle.

Written by Bryony Lavery.

Second draft May 2000

[Selection shown]

Postcard for the Millenium Project, Ludlow Castle Summer 2000 asking people aged 14-25 to get involved.

Written by Reza de Wet and directed by Theresa Heskins.

Published by Oberon Books, London, 2000

With tour dates

Large print of image used for poster, laminated for display.

Written by Liz John and directed by Theresa Heskins.

Second draft

With tour dates

Written by Phil Porter and directed by Dani Parr.

2 copies - one marked as second draft, June 2000

With tour dates

Including contracts, evaluation forms, tour dates etc

Written by Julian Garner and directed by Theresa Heskins.

Fringe First winner 2002

See also published script [8872/2/85/10]

/1 with tour dates

(2 files)

Published by Oberon Books, London

The Kindness of Strangers written by Jacky Hall and directed by Dani Parr and We'll Be Home Tomorrow written by Wayne Denfhy and directed by Susanne McKinnon.

Two plays performed at Ledbury Market Theatre, 13-14 September 2002.

Auditions to be held at Ledbury Market Theatre 22 June. To be performed at Ledbury Market Theatre in September.

Adapted by Bryony Lavery from the book by Mary Webb.

Directed by Theresa Heskins.

Designed by Kate Bunce, original music by Mary Keith.

Rehearsal draft March 2003

Script incorporating 2003 changes (March 2004)

Script

Five versions, covering six venues.

6 versions, one for each venue

Rehearsals to be held at the Music Hall, Shrewsbury for performance at Shrewsbury School Gardens.

''Evaluation of Singing Challenge: A Youth Music Programme awarded to Pentabus Theatre Company for their production of Precious Bane'' by Deborah Rees.

Laminated colour photograph showing the choir and part of the audience.

Showing photograph of part of the choir.

Image by Geraint Lewis.

Written by Anthony Blythe and directed by Theresa Heskins.

with tour dates

Seven plays by seven writers (nine writers originally involved):

'Completely Fucking See-Through' by Francesca Beard

'The Management Reserve the Right' by Richard Rai O'Neill

'Mountain Knows Me' by Rommis Smith

'Joy's Prayer' by Ian Marchant

'Two Men in the Fog' by Sonali Bhattacharyya

'A Question of Courage' by Courttia Newland

'Letting Yourself Go' by Kara Miller
Originally directed by Theresa Heskins and subsequently by Rob Cameron (Sep-Oct 2007).

Performed in Edinburgh, London and Stockholm and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Nominated for South Bank Show Award 2007.

Pentabus theatre in partnership with BBC Radio Drama

Published by Oberon Modern Plays 2006

3 versions

2 copies (different sizes)

2 designs

Written by Gianina Carbunariu.

Co-produced with the Royal Court Theatre and Dublin International Theatre Festival.

A year long project exploring the lives of everyone who has ever lived in Nag's Head Yard, Ludlow. Includes ''Alfie Lloyd's Story'' a workshop for schools. A partnership between Pentabus Theare, Shropshire Archives, Ludlow Library and Museum Resource Centre.

5 designs

Two resource packs and a file of birth certificate application forms for the people being researched.

printed and stuck into notebook of hand-made paper

Written by Phil Porter.

first version of Frostbite

Performed in Clearwell Caves, Forest of Dean.

Co-produced by Pentabus and Kindle Theatre.

Devised by Orla O'Loughlin and Philip Osment. Directed by Orla O'Loughlin.

A promenade production at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre, Brierley Hill, co-produced by the National Youth Theatre and Pentabus with the young people of Brierley Hill.

Listed in Actors' Yearbook 2014 under Pentabus performances for 2009-2010.

by Alan Harris (first and second draft),

by Sean Buckley (first draft with notes and second draft), copyright 2008

Five ten minute plays written as part of the Pigs project.

Written by Alia Bano, Nicola Jones, Debbie McAndrew, Tim Price, Alan Pollock and Abbie Spallen.

Listed in Actors' Yearbook 2014 under Pentabus performances for 2009-2010.

Written by Steven Canny and John Nicholson.

4 designs, with Pentabus contact details on back

Written by Brian Viner and adapted by Nick Warburton.

Toured Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Wales Apr - May 2010. Also had runs in London and Edinburgh. The show retoured Jan-Mar 2011.

[Information from 8872/1/4/1/2 Accounts and Review for 2009-2010.]

Selection showing different venues

Ludlow Assembly Rooms and The Courtyard

featuring Tales of the Country

Written by Tim Price.

2013 show directed by Elizabeth Freestone.

Published by Methuen Drama

Sherman Cymru, with tour dates Feb-Apr 2012

Including press release for Hampstead Theatre performance, July 2011.

Written by John Donnelly, Gbolahan Obisesan, Joe Harbot, Lou Ramsden and Vanessa Oakes as part of Writers' Week April 2011.

Directed by Kate Budgen.

Performed at the Latitude Festival

Written by Clare Bayley.

By Nell Leyson.

Performed at the Hay Festival 10 June 2012.

Performed at The Latitude Festival.