Primavera Productions
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Primavera is a professional theatre company founded in 2003 by Tom Littler, who is also the Artistic Director. It is based in London, UK.
Primavera focuses on producing revivals of classic and rarely performed plays. Primavera's past productions have included the Scottish premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Passion at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival (Scotsman Critics' Choice for Musicals / Opera), Into the Woods and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Oxford Playhouse, a production of Frank McGuinness' version of Ibsen's A Doll's House on tour, and Shakespeare's As You Like It as the inaugural production at the Said Business School in Oxford. All of these productions were directed by Tom Littler.
Primavera also produces the "Forgotten Classics" series of rehearsed readings at the The King's Head Theatre, Islington. These have included a performance of Byron's Manfred starring young British actor Harry Lloyd, of Virginia Woolf's Freshwater starring Edmund Kingsley, John Lyly's Gallathea starring Mary Nighy, and Charles Dickens's No Thoroughfare starring Loo Brealey, all directed by Tom Littler. Other plays in the series not directed by Tom Littler included the first play in English by a woman (Mariam) and early works by American playwrights. Primavera Productions also produces at the Finborough Theatre where its 2007 work includes an opera by Ethel Smyth and a play by T. S. Eliot, The Confidential Clerk.
From March 26 - 19 April 2008, Primavera Productions will produce and Tom Littler will direct the first ever revival of Jingo: A Farce of War, a comedy by Charles Wood set in the last days of British occupation of Singapore before the humiliating surrender to the Japanese. Susannah Harker plays Gwendoline and Anthony Howell plays her ex-husband Ian.
Tom Littler also works as a freelance director, assisting Sir Peter Hall on the world premiere of Simon Gray's Little Nell and on Noel Coward's The Vortex with Felicity Kendal, Peter Gill on The Importance of Being Earnest starring Penelope Keith, Laurence Boswell on Christopher Hampton's Treats starring Billie Piper, and Alan Strachan on The Letter starring Jenny Seagrove and Anthony Andrews and Absurd Person Singular with Jane Horrocks.
[edit] External Links
Primavera Productions website
The King's Head website
Finborough Theatre website
Macnaughton Lord (Tom Littler's agents) website
Review of The Confidential Clerk
Review of As You Like It
