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Selladoor Worldwide
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Selladoor Worldwide Logo
Address1 Creek Road, London, SE8 3BT
Greenwich
England
Opened2008
Website
www.selladoor.com

Selladoor Worldwide 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

Selladoor Worldwide 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.

Selladoor 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, Selladoor also started producing an annual Off West End season at the Greenwich Theatre. In November 2013, Selladoor 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.

Selladoor's head office moved to London in 2009, at Athenley House on Greenwich High Road and subsequently to the Deptford Mission in Deptford. Since its construction in 2013, the company has also held residency at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock.[1]

In December 2012, Selladoor 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

  1. ^ "Five Years of Sell a Door". The Herald. Retrieved 23 September 2012.