2010— —2014

“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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“One of the busiest and

highest quality producers

of touring work around.”

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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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“I’m @southhillpark for

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DEVOTED tonight. Don’t get

this calibre of theatre around

here very often I can tell you.”

Twitter: @adzyfoster

MORE REACH

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TOTAL PERFORMANCES 239 206 239 204 265 450

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PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE LONDON 239 206 127 146 213 324

% OUTSIDE LONDON 100% 100% 53% 71% 80% 72%

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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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“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.