English Touring Theatre
English Touring Theatre is a major touring theatre company based in London, England.
History
English Touring Theatre was founded in 1993 by Stephen Unwin. In 2008, the directorship of the company was taken over by Rachel Tackley, making ETT the first producer-led touring theatre company in the UK. Richard Twyman succeeded Tackley to become the company's Artistic Director in November 2016.
Awards
Awards for English Touring Theatre include:
2016Theatre Awards UK Best Touring Production – for The Herbal Bed
2015Theatre Awards UK Best Touring Production – for Twelfth Night
2014Theatre Awards UK Best Touring Production – for Translations
2012Theatre Awards UK Best Touring Production – for Anne Boleyn
2011The Public Reviews Best of 2011 Award – for TartuffeThe Stage 100 Awards – Best ProducerCritics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland Best New Play – for The Three Musketeers and the Princess of SpainCritics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland Best Ensemble – for The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain
2010Theatre Awards UK Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre
Productions
The Weir Rules For Living Othello William Wordsworth Nell Gwynn Silver Lining Hamlet Lady Chatterley's Lover French Without Tears Brideshead Revisited adapted by Bryony Lavery in the first large-scale stage adaptation of the novel by Evelyn Waugh The Herbal Bed The Odyssey: Missing, Presumed Dead A Mad World, My Masters Arcadia Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Directed by Jonathan Munby, designed by Colin Richmond. Toured to: Sheffield Theatres; Grand Theatre, Blackpool; Watford Palace Theatre; Cambridge Arts Theatre; Hall for Cornwall, Truro; Richmond Theatre, Richmond, London; and Theatre Royal, Brighton The Misanthrope by Roger McGough after Moliere. Directed by Gemma Bodinetz. Toured to Liverpool Playhouse, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Richmond Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Hall for Cornwall, Northcott Theatre, Theatre Royal Brighton, Nuffield Theatre, The New Wolsey, York Theatre Royal and Theatre Royal BathThe Sacred Flame by W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by Matthew Dunster. Toured to: Rose Theatre, Kingston; Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne; Oxford Playhouse; New Wolsey Theatre; Liverpool Playhouse; Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford; Theatre Royal, Brighton; The Nuffield Theatre Southampton; and Cambridge Arts TheatreThe Real Thing (play) Anne Boleyn Tartuffe Hundreds and Thousands Eden End Little Baby Jesus Great Expectations The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain Lovesong Marine Parade Canary Rum and Coca Cola The Hypochondriac Been So Long The Grapes of Wrath Where There's a Will Entertaining Mr Sloane Far From the Madding Crowd Hello and Goodbye Uncle Vanya The Changeling Someone Else's Shoes French Without Tears Mother Courage and Her Children The Old Country Hamlet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Twelfth Night Honeymoon Suite Romeo and Juliet Anton Chekhov John Gabriel Borkman The Boy Who Fell into a Book King Lear Ghosts The York Realist The Caretaker Fool for Love The Cherry Orchard The Master Builder Don Juan Hushabye Mountain The Taming of the Shrew A Difficult Age Shellfish Measure for Measure The Seagull Design for Living Henry IV Parts I and II The School for Scandal Hedda Gabler Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club Macbeth The Importance of Being Earnest The School for Wives No Man's Land As You Like It The Beaux' Stratagem A Doll's House A Taste of Honey Hamlet
Digital Theatre
ETT was one of the organisations which collaborated in the launch of Digital Theatre, a project of recording and distributing theatre performance digitally. The first performance filmed and released was Far From the Madding Crowd.