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“THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE UK’S THEATRE ECOSYSTEM.”
THE GUARDIAN
“HARROWER’S BEAUTIFUL, DECEPTIVE WISP OF A P L A Y… P E R F E C T I O N .”
NEW YORK TIMES
ON GOOD WITH PEOPLE
“THAT NOBLE COMPANY PAINES PLOUGH, DE FACTO NATIONAL THEATRE OF NEW WRITING.”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
“ T H E M O S T L O V A B L E VENUE ON THE FRINGE...A TRIUMPH OF CREATIVITY.”
THE LIST ON ROUNDABOUT
“ O N E O F T H E M O S T AMB IT IOUS, AND MOST ACCOMPLISHED, DOMESTIC DRAMAS IN A LONG WHILE.”
WHATSONSTAGE ON LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
“THE MOST BEAUT IFUL , SHATTERING PLAY OF THE YEAR.”
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS ON LUNGS
“PAINES PLOUGH HAS HIT NEW HEIGHTS SINCE GRIEVE AND PERRIN TOOK OVER AS ARTISTIC DIRECTORS. THE COMPANY’S OUTPUT HAS BEEN ASTONISHING.”
THE STAGE
“JUST THE MOST ABSORBING, B E A U T I F U L P I E C E O F THEATRE I’VE EVER SEEN.”
@KELLY_LOU_SMITH
ON LONDON
“ A M A J O R F O R C E F O R N E W W R I T I N G .”
THE GUARDIAN
“ R E V E R E D T O U R I N G COMPANY PAINES PLOUGH.”
TIME OUT
“THE PERFEC T WINTER-WARMER, OFTEN BLISSFULLY FUNNY BUT AT T IMES DEEPLY AFFECTING TOO.”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ON
JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS
“YES! THIS IS WHAT THEATRE SHOULD BE LIKE. THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE.”
AUDIENCE MEMBER ON WASTED
AT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY
“A BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED MASTERPIECE IN ENGINEERING... A SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGH IN THEATRE TECHNOLOGY.”
THE STAGE ON ROUNDABOUT
“AS ENGAGING AND DEVASTATING A PIECE OF THEATRE AS YOU’RE LIKELY TO FIND.”
THE INDEPENDENT ON SEA WALL
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HELLO
We joined Paines Plough five years ago at the start of 2010.
We were fortunate to inherit a company in rude financial health
and with considerable artistic standing.
Our ambition was to keep doing brilliant new plays but to do more
of them and to tour to more places and reach more people than
ever before in pursuit of being a truly national theatre of new plays.
Five years on, rather than our usual Annual Review, we’ve
produced this – an overview of five years 2010-2014.
Five years in which Paines Plough has produced 36 world premieres
with 1,153 individual performances in 146 places seen by 131,267
people featuring the work of 115 playwrights ranging from first-timers
to Olivier Award winners.
Five years which culminated in 2014 with a celebration of 40 years
of Paines Plough, our biggest and furthest reaching programme
of work ever and the launch of our state-of-the-art pop-up theatre
Roundabout.
Thanks to the brilliance of the writers we’ve worked with and the
skill and passion of hundreds of actors, creatives, stage management
and our team at PPHQ, it’s been an amazing five years.
James & GeorgeArtistic Directors
THE PLAN
MORE PLAYS IN MORE PLACES FOR MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE WHILST REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON PUBLIC FUNDING.
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MORE PRODUCTIONS
MORE PLAYS…2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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MORE PERFORMANCES…2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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“One of the busiest and
highest quality producers
of touring work around.”
The Stage
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36 WORLD PREMIERES
COME TO WHERE I’M FROM by 100+ playwrights
WE PLANTED SOME SUNFLOWERS by Tom Wells
ORGANISED by Lucinda Cardey
MIDNIGHT AT THE HOTEL BEAUREGARD by Penelope Skinner
BENEATH THE LIGHTS by Danielle Sibley
SOME MACHINE by Laura Lomas
PARK HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL by Adam Taylor
TINY VOLCANOES by Laurence Wilson
CALAIS by April De Angelis
THE UNCERTAINTY FILES by Linda McLean
IN THE PIPELINE by Gary Owen
FLY ME TO THE MOON by Marie Jones
GOOD WITH PEOPLE by David Harrower
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE by Mike Bartlett
THE SOUND OF HEAVY RAIN by Penelope Skinner
LUNGS by Duncan Macmillan
ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG by Nick Payne
WASTED by Kate Tempest
THE 8TH by Paul Heaton
and Ché Walker
DIG by Katie Douglas
YOU CANNOT GO FORWARD FROM WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW by David Watson
JUICY FRUITS by Leo Butler
LONDON by Simon Stephens
SIXTY FIVE MILES by Matt Hartley
SMITHEREENS by Sean Buckley
JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS by Tom Wells
HOPELESSLY DEVOTED by Kate Tempest
SEA WALL by Simon Stephens
EVERY BRILLIANT THING by Duncan
Macmillan
THE ANGRY BRIGADE by James Graham
THE INITIATE by Alexandra Wood
OUR TEACHER’S A TROLL by Dennis Kelly
AN INTERVENTION by Mike Bartlett
NOT THE WORST PLACE by Sam Burns
BLISTER by Laura Lomas
PAINES PLOUGH AT 40
by Katie Douglas,
Robin French and
Nick Payne
Paines Plough productions have been in the
three-strong shortlist for Best New Play at the
Theatre Awards UK for the past three years:
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE (Winner, 2011), LUNGS (2012), JUMPERS FOR GOALPOSTS (2013).
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MORE PLACES
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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“I’m @southhillpark for
@painesplough’s HOPELESSLY
DEVOTED tonight. Don’t get
this calibre of theatre around
here very often I can tell you.”
Twitter: @adzyfoster
MORE REACH
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
TOTAL PERFORMANCES 239 206 239 204 265 450
PERFORMANCES IN LONDON 0 0 112 58 52 126
PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE LONDON 239 206 127 146 213 324
% OUTSIDE LONDON 100% 100% 53% 71% 80% 72%
“Paines Plough has
increasingly made the
effort to take its work
to as many far-flung
places as possible.”
The Guardian
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146 PLACES
59E59 Theaters, New York
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Albany, Deptford
Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton
Ark Theatre, Trowbridge
Artrix, Bromsgrove
Arts Centre, Washington
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
Astor Community Theatre, Deal
Axis Arts Centre, Crewe
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
Barbican Centre, London
Barrow Street Theatre, New York
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Bestival, Isle of Wight
Bewley’s, Dublin
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter
Birmingham City University SU
Birmingham LGBT Centre
Birmingham Metropolitan
College SU
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Brewhouse, Taunton
Bridport Arts Centre
Brighton Dome
Bristol Old Vic
Buckingham University Campus
Bush Theatre, London
Byre, Aberdour
Byre, Markinch
Byre, St Andrews
Byre, Tayport
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Cast, Doncaster
Castle, Wellingborough
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Clifftown Theatre, Southend
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Colchester Arts Centre
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Curve, Leicester
Dartington Arts
Derby Theatre
Drum Theatre, Plymouth
Dukes, Lancaster
Electric Theatre, Guildford
Firestation, Windsor
Four Dwellings School,
Birmingham
Garage, Norwich
Gate Theatre, London
Gulbenkian, Canterbury
Hackney Downs Studios
Half Moon Theatre, London
Harrogate Theatre
Hat Factory, Luton
Hawth, Crawley
Hazlitt Arts Centre, Maidstone
Hessisches Staatstheater,
Wiesbaden
Hive, Worcester
Hull Truck Theatre
Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
Jersey Opera House
Key Theatre, Peterborough
Lakeside Arts Centre,
Nottingham
Latitude Festival, Southwold
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Leeds University Student Union
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Lincoln Performing Arts Centre
Live Theatre, Newcastle
Liverpool Everyman &
Playhouse
Lowry, Salford
Ludlow Fringe Festival
MAC, Birmingham
Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Manchester International
Festival
Margate Winter Gardens
Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
Mercury Theatre, Colchester
Merlin Theatre, Frome
Milton Rooms, Malton
National Student Drama
Festival, Scarborough
National Theatre, London
New Theatre, Nottingham
New Wolsey, Ipswich
Newbury Corn Exchange
Norden Farm, Maidenhead
North Wall, Oxford
Northern Stage, Newcastle
Nottingham Playhouse
Nu:Write Festival, Zagreb
Nuffield, Southampton
Òran Mór, Glasgow
Oxford Playhouse
Parabola Arts, Cheltenham
Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
Pentabus, Ludlow
Phoenix Arts Centre, Bordon
Plymouth Theatre Royal
Quarterhouse, Folkestone
Redbridge Drama Centre
Rose Bruford College, Sidcup
Roundhouse, London
Royal & Derngate, Northampton
Royal Court Theatre, London
Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Welsh College of
Music & Drama, Cardiff
Salisbury Playhouse
Sherman Cymru, Cardiff
Shop Front Theatre, Coventry
Shoreditch Town Hall,
London
Soho Theatre, London
Southbank Centre, London
South Birmingham College
South Hill Park, Bracknell
Square Chapel, Halifax
St Paul’s Church, Birmingham
Stephen Joseph Theatre,
Scarborough
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Tara Arts Theatre, London
The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre,
Manchester
The Edge, Much Wenlock
The Old Market, Brighton
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
Theatre On The Steps, Bridgnorth
Theatre Royal, Margate
Theatre Workshop, Sheffield
Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Trestle Arts Base, St Albans
Tricycle Theatre, London
Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Unicorn Theatre, London
Ustinov, Theatre Royal Bath
Ventnor Fringe Festival
Walsall College
Warwick Arts Centre
Warwick University Campus
Watford Palace Theatre
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Whaddon Jubilee Hall
York Theatre Royal
New York
Dublin
Wiesbaden
Zagreb
Galway
Lisburn
Jersey
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MORE PEOPLE
AUDIENCE 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
13,889 26,559 40,660 25,117 25,042 43,760
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE opening night at The
Drum Theatre, Plymouth - 7 September
2010. Final performance at The Royal
Court Theatre, London – 9 June 2012.
35,041 people saw the show in 18 different theatres.
Our first small-scale tour of TINY
VOLCANOES in 2010 achieved 21%
capacity. The tour of WASTED on the same
circuit in 2012 achieved 55%. HOPELESSLY
DEVOTED in 2014 achieved 62%. In 2015
EVERY BRILLIANT THING achieved 75%.
7,532 people saw a Paines Plough
show on the small-scale in 2014,
up from 3,438 in 2012 and 692 in 2010.
An estimated 200,000 people listened to PAINES PLOUGH @ 40 on BBC Radio 3.17,036 people saw LOVE, LOVE, LOVE at The Royal Court in 2012.More than 2,000 people have listened to a COME TO WHERE I’M FROM play as a free-to-download podcast on painesplough.com.2,407 people watched our live stream of WASTED from the Roundhouse in 2013. In total 131,267 people saw a Paines Plough show live 2010-2014.
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EMPLOYMENT & PARTICIPATION169 actors112 creatives51 production and stage managers1,862 actors met through Open Auditions1,452 workshop attendees35 interns and work placements
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115PLAYWRIGHTS
Adam Peck
Adam Taylor
Alan Harris
Alan Pollock
Alexandra Wood
Alia Bano
Alice Birch
Alice Jolly
Alison Carr
Ann Wilson
April De Angelis
Ben Evans
Beth Steel
Bethan Marlow
Catriona Kerridge
Ché Walker
Cheryl Payne
Chris O’Connell
Chris Thorpe
Clare Bayley
Colin Scott
Danielle Sibley
Danny Strike
David Edgar
David Harrower
David Ireland
David Watson
Deborah A. Williams
Dennis Kelly
Dick Curran
Dominic Grace
Duncan Macmillan
Eamon Rooney
Em Hussein
Fin Kennedy
Gary Owen
Glenn Waldron
Glyn Maxwell
Greg Banks
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Guy Jones
Hannah George
Hannah Patterson
Hannah Silva
Helen Blakeman
Hugh Janes
Ian McHugh
James Graham
JC Marshall
Joe Graham
Joe Harbot
Joel Horwood
John Goodwin
Jonny Donahoe
Joy Wilkinson
Judy Upton
Kate Tempest
Katherine Mitchell
Katie Douglas
Kefi Chadwick
Keith Saha
Kirsty Housley
Laura Lomas
Laurence Wilson
Leah Chillery
Lee Mattinson
Lena Kaur
Leo Butler
Leon Fleming
Linda McLean
Lizzie Nunnery
Louise Gallagher
Lucinda Burnett
Lucy Tyler
Marie Jones
Martha MacDonald
Martin Lynch
Matt Hartley
Matthew Bulgo
Michael Chaplin
Michael Wynne
Mike Bartlett
Molly Davies
Mufaro Makubika
Natalie McGrath
Nick Payne
Nicola Werenowska
Paul Heaton
Paven Virk
Penelope Skinner
Phil Davies
Richard Cameron
Richard Dormer
Rory Mullarkey
Rose Heiney
Rosemary Jenkinson
Sam Burns
Sarah McDonald Hughes
Sean Buckley
Simon Stephens
Stacey Gregg
Steven Deproost
Sue MacLaine
Susannah Finzi
Tim Atack
Tim Price
Titas Halder
Tom Hill
Tom Nicholas
Tom Wainwright
Tom Wells
Tracey Whitwell
Vanessa Oakes
Zodwa Nyoni
Zosia Wand
Four of the past five winners
of the George Devine Award were
on attachment to Paines Plough –
Elinor Cook (2013), Tom Wells (2012), Penelope Skinner (2011), Nick Payne (2009).
“I couldn’t have written a play at all without
having James’ excitement for the project
pushing me through the moments when
I thought – what the f*** am I doing and
why are these people letting me do it...”
Kate Tempest
15 PLAYWRIGHTS ON ATTACHMENTAlia BanoAlice BirchLucinda BurnettElinor CookStacey GreggElla Carmen GreenhillReuben Johnson
Laura LomasAlistair McDowallDanielle SibleyPenelope SkinnerAdam TaylorAli TaylorTom WellsAlexandra Wood
2,088 UNSOLICITED SCRIPTS RECEIVED, READ AND RESPONDED TO 2010-2014.
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CO-PRODUCERS2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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PARTNERS Only the National Theatre of Scotland,
Young Vic and Birmingham Rep
co-produced with more people
than Paines Plough in 2014.*
* BBC: The State Of UK Theatre, see page 15
We have co-produced work with a huge range of partners from music festivals to
international arts festivals to fringe festivals; commercial producers to independent
companies; the BBC, the Royal Court and the National Theatre.
Any Other Name
Productions
BBC Radio 3
Belgrade Theatre,
Coventry
Birmingham
Repertory Theatre
Brewery Arts Centre,
Kendal
Brighton Dome
Bristol Old Vic
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Crucible Theatre,
Sheffield
Datum Point
Drum Theatre,
Plymouth
Gate Theatre, London
Half Moon Young
People’s Theatre
Hull Truck
Jersey Arts Trust
Latitude Festival
Live Theatre,
Newcastle
Liverpool Everyman &
Playhouse
Manchester
International Festival
nabokov
National Student
Drama Festival
National Theatre
New Wolsey, Ipswich
Nottingham
Playhouse
Oran Mor, Glasgow
Oxford Playhouse
Parabola Arts,
Cheltenham
Pentabus Theatre
Company
Ransom Productions
Rose Bruford College
Royal Court
Royal Exchange
Theatre, Manchester
Royal Welsh College
of Music and Drama
Salisbury Playhouse
Sherman Cymru
Shoreditch
Town Hall
SJM Concerts
Southbank Centre
The Roundhouse
The Theatre, Chipping
Norton
Traverse Theatre
Ventnor Fringe
Festival
Watford Palace
Theatre
West Yorkshire
Playhouse
AND IN 2015…
Pentabus Theatre Company
Half Moon Young People’s Theatre
Dublin Theatre Festival
Barrow Street Theatre, New York
Jean Doumanian Productions, New York
Southbank Centre
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Latitude Festival
Naked Angels, New York
BBC Radio 3
Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama
Gate Theatre, London
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MAKING A LITTLE GO A LONG WAY
In December 2014 the BBC published ‘The State of UK Theatre’ - a survey of
the output of 62 theatres and companies in receipt of Arts Council funding. They
released a league table ordered by the amount of funding each company received.
The National Theatre was top with £19m, the RSC was second with £15m and so on.
Paines Plough came 54th in that league table with just 1/3 of the funding received by
the theatre in 23rd place, and half the funding of the theatre in 36th place.
The BBC surveyed other metrics, and those league tables look rather different...
In overall number of productions in 2014, Paines Plough were 11th out of 62. In number of new plays produced, Paines Plough were 4th. And in number of co-producer relationships, Paines Plough came 4th as well. Only the National Theatre, the Royal Court and NTS produced more new plays than us in 2014.
Here’s our BBC survey results:
PAINES PLOUGH
2009 2014 Change % Change
Funding (ACE)£227,290
(2009/10)
£315,620
(2014/15)+£38,330 39%
Productions and Co-Productions
2 10 +8 500%
New Plays 2 6 +4 300%
Co-Productions 2 8 +6 400%
Actors 9 29 +20 322%
Writers 2 9 +7 450%
Directors 1 3 +2 300%
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REDUCED DEPENDENCY ON ACE 2010 2014
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“AWESOME. HONESTLY THE BEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN. SO FUNNY. JUST PERFECT. T H A N K Y O U . P L E A S E COME TO OUR SCHOOL T O D O A WOR K S H O P.”
LIZ KELLY, AUDIENCE MEMBER,
TINY VOLCANOES
“A R O C K-S O U L O P E R A T H A T S O U N D S L I K E L E O N A R D B E R N S T E I N MEETS PUBL IC ENEMY.”
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
ON THE 8TH
“ A L I F E - A F F I R M I N G G E M… A S P R O F O U N D A W O R K A S Y O U A R E E V E R L I K E L Y T O E X P E R I E N C E O N A N E W Y O R K S T A G E . ”
NY1 ON EVERY BRILLIANT THING
“J U S T R E A D P A I N E S PLOUGH’S 2014 SEASON EMAIL: I LITERALLY WANT T O S E E E V E R Y T H I N G ! ”
@1CLARECAMERON
“THE BEST PLAY I’VE EVER SEEN. EVERYONE COMING OUT OF IT IS BROKEN.”
@POTATOWAFFLE ON LUNGS
“ I N C R E D I B L E . S I C K PERFORMANCES, FAULTLESS D I R E C T I O N A N D T H E WRITING - JUST, WOW.”
@MSAVAC ON WASTED
“MEMORABLY ADVENTUROUS…A TIMELESS DEPICTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGITATING AGAINST A WORLD THAT APPEARS TO EXCLUDE THEM.”
THE TIMES ON THE ANGRY BRIGADE
“ W I N G S I T S W A Y STRAIGHT TO THE HEART… STARTLINGLY BEAUTIFUL.”
THE TIMES ON
HOPELESSLY DEVOTED
“MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING AND MY MAKE-UP IS SMUDGED FROM CRYING. JUST INCREDIBLE.”
@FROZENTHEATRE ON
EVERY BRILLIANT THING
“JUST HAD MY OH WOW MOMENT OF EDFR INGE . THE WRITING, THE ACTING, THE VENUE. CAPTIVATING.”
@CHARLICHICKIE ON
THE HUMAN EAR IN ROUNDABOUT
“HAPPIEST, MOST JOYFUL HOUR OF #EDFRINGE SO FAR. BLOODY WONDERFUL!”
@LYDIALAR ON
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2015— —2019
AND SO TO THE NEXT FIVE YEARS… We’ll keep touring jam-packed programmes of world class new plays to the four corners of the UK and internationally. We’ll keep discovering and nurturing the best playwrights and working in partnership with a wide range of co-producers and partners nationwide. Our portable theatre Roundabout will pop-up across the country reaching new audiences in new places. By 2019 even more people in even more places will see the best new plays on their doorsteps.