Sell a Door Theatre Company
 Sell a Door Theatre Company logo | |
| Address |
Athelney House, 161-165 Greenwich High Road, London, SE10 8JA Greenwich England |
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| Opened | 2008 |
| Website | |
| www.selladoor.com | |
Sell a Door Theatre Company is a West End and national touring theatre company based in Greenwich, London, and company in residence at the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, Scotland.
History
Sell a Door was formed in 2008 by Alison Carter, Robert Gilbert, David Hutchinson, Aysha Powell and Phillip Rowntree, at the time all students at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
The company's début production, The Secrets Inside, was written by Hutchinson and directed by Richard Adams. The play focuses on the imprisonment of Darren Tunstall, a 23-year-old businessman, who is sentenced to 8 months in HM Prison Perth, Scotland for possessing indecent images of children, and his relationship between the protagonist and his cellmate, Brian, a volatile inmate. It premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, then ran at the Tolbooth in Stirling.
Sell a Door soon moved into producing regional touring theatre, starting with a national tour of Liz Lochhead's adaptation of Dracula in 2010. The following year, it conducted the first British tour of Spring Awakening, which visited Exeter, Stirling, Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Norwich; and produced the centenary tour of William Golding's The Lord of the Flies, across Scotland, England and Wales.
In 2011, Sell a Door also started producing an annual Off West End season at the Greenwich Theatre. In November 2013, Sell a Door was made an official partner company at the Greenwich Theatre. The 2014 season included Avenue Q and adaptations of the novels Kidnapped and Alice in Wonderland.
Sell a Door's head office moved to London in 2009, at Athenley House on Greenwich High Road. Since its construction in 2013, the company has also held residency at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock.[1]
In December 2012, Sell a Door made their West End debut with a production of Seussical, written by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, at the Arts Theatre. Recent shows include the London revival of Alan Bennett's The History Boys and Tim Kelly's adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Productions
| Year | Production | Based on | Adapted by | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | James and the Giant Peach | The novel by Roald Dahl | ||
| 2016 | Footloose | The 1984 film | ||
| 2015 | American Idiot | The album by Green Day | Arts Theatre, London | |
| 2015 | The History Boys | Alan Bennett | ||
| 2015 | The Silver Sword | The novel by Ian Serraillier | Steve Edis, Susie McKenna | |
| 2015 | Jekyll & Hyde | The novella by Robert Louis Stevenson | Jo Clifford | |
| 2014 | Alice in Wonderland | The novel by Lewis Carroll | David Hutchinson, Maddy Mutch | |
| 2014 | Avenue Q | |||
| 2014 | Kidnapped | The novel by Robert Louis Stevenson | Ivan Wilkinson | |
| 2013 | Seussical | Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty | ||
| 2013 | Ghosts | Alfred Enoch, Richard Eyre | Almeida Theatre and Trafalgar Studios, London | |
| 2013 | Sincerely, Mr Toad | David Hutchinson, Katie McIvor, David Andrew Wilson | ||
| 2013 | 1984 | The novel by George Orwell | Matthew Dunster | |
| 2013 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
| 2013 | Journey's End | R.C. Sherriff | ||
| 2012 | Rainbow | Emily Jenkins | ||
| 2012 | Sealand | Luke Clarke | ||
| 2012 | Peter | Stacy Sobieski | ||
| 2012 | The Man Who Had All the Luck | Toured 23 venues, opened at Mull Little Theatre, closed at Greenwich Theatre | ||
| 2012 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | The novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Tim Kelly | |
| 2011 | A Christmas Carol | The novella by Charles Dickens | David Hutchinson, Anna Schneider | |
| 2011 | Lord of the Flies | The novel by William Golding | Nigel Williams | |
| 2011 | Spring Awakening | Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik | Exeter, Stirling, Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Norwich | |
| 2011 | Proof | David Auburn | ||
| 2011 | A Taste of Honey | Shelagh Delaney | Palace Theatre Mansfield, Buxton Opera House, Greenwich Theatre | |
| 2011 | The Comedy of Errors | |||
| 2010 | Dracula | The novel by Bram Stoker | Liz Lochhead | Toured 13 venues, including Kilmarnock Palace Theatre, Theatre Royal, Dumfries, Albert Halls, Stirling, Greenock Arts Guild Theatre, Greenwich Playhouse |
| 2010 | Ms Minelli and the Daring Do | Sam Thackray | ||
| 2010 | The Railway Children | Dave Simpson | ||
| 2010 | Stitching | Anthony Neilson | ||
| 2010 | The House of Mirrors and Hearts | Robert Gilbert, Eamonn O'Dwyer | ||
| 2010 | Next Thing You Know | Ryan Cunningham, Joshua Salzman | ||
| 2010 | Scaredy Cat Prince | David Hutchinson | ||
| 2010 | The Philanderer | |||
| 2010 | Where the Solitary Eagle Flies | David Hutchinson | ||
| 2010 | Twelfth Night | |||
| 2009 | Blue/Orange | Joe Penhall | ||
| 2009 | Six Ways | Michael Bradley, Paddy Clarke, David Hutchinson | 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jermyn Street Theatre | |
| 2009 | Falsettoland | William Finn, James Lapine | 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival | |
| 2009 | By Order of Ignorance | Robert Gilbert | ||
| 2009 | Planning Permission | David Hutchinson | Unity Theatre, Liverpool | |
| 2009 | The Jason Robert Brown Song Cycle | Michael Bradley | ||
| 2008 | The Ugly One | Marius von Mayenburg | ||
| 2008 | The Night Before Christmas | The poem by Clement Clarke Moore | Anthony Neilson | |
| 2008 | The Sugar Syndrome | Lucy Prebble | ||
| 2008 | So Much to Say for Myself | Robert Gilbert | ||
| 2008 | Heart and Music | David Hutchinson | ||
| 2008 | Treats | Christopher Hampton | ||
| 2008 | The Secrets Inside | David Hutchinson | ||
| 2007 | Two | Jim Cartwright |
Notes
- ↑ "Five Years of Sell a Door". The Herald. Retrieved 2012-09-23.