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Archive Playlists

JMK Award 2017 Playlist

The list in 2017 was chosen by our JMK Award alumni with the Young Vic.

The Promise – Aleksei Arbruzov

Play – Samuel Beckett (with another Beckett short of your choice) 

Sore Throats – Howard Brenton

Woyzeck – Georg Büchner

Woman and Scarecrow – Marina Carr

A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney

Winter – Jon Fosse

Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act – Athol Fugard

Random – Debbie Tucker Green

The Lesson –  Eugène Ionesco

The Chairs –  Eugène Ionesco

Through the Leaves – Franz Xaver Kroetz (Anthony Vivis translation)

Penetrator – Anthony Neilson

My Name is Rachel Corrie – Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner

Ages of the Moon –  Sam Shepard

The Empire Builders – Boris Vian (Simon Watson Taylor translation)

 

JMK Award 2016 Playlist

The list for 2016 was chosen by David Lan and colleagues from a number of key London and regional theatres.

La Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler and versions

Low Level Panic – Clare McIntyre

Penetrator – Anthony Neilson

Play – Samuel Beckett (with another Beckett short of your choice) 

Small Change – Peter Gill

The Drowned World – Gary Owen

The Human Voice – Jean Cocteau

The Lesson – Eugène Ionesco

The Mountaintop – Katori Hall

The Ruffian on the Stair – Joe Orton

Through the Leaves – Franz Xaver Kroetz

 Winter – Jon Fosse

Woyzeck – Georg Büchner

 

JMK Award 2015 Playlist

The list for 2015 was chosen by David Lan and some of JMK’s Trustees – Michael Buffong, Polly Findlay, Ben Power and Mark Rosenblatt.

Play – Samuel Beckett (with another Beckett short of your choice)

Woyzeck – Georg Büchner

The Human Voice – Jean Cocteau

Mother and Child – Jon Fosse

Someone is going to come – Jon Fosse

Born Bad – Debbie Tucker Green

Amadee – Eugene Ionesco

The Lesson – Eugene Ionesco

Dutchman – LeRoi Jones

Barbarians – Barrie Keeffe

It felt empty when the heart went at first but it’s all right now – Lucy Kirkwood

Through the Leaves – Franz Xaver Kroetz

The Ugly One – Marius von Mayenberg

Dublin Carol – Conor McPherson

Penetrator – Anthony Neilson

The Censor – Anthony Neilson

The Ruffian on the Stair – Joe Orton

La Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler and versions

 

Below are lists from previous years in with Michael Boyd, Nicholas Hytner, David Lan, Sam Mendes and Katie Mitchell selected their top 25 ‘classic’ plays.

 

Michael Boyd

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A Delicate Balance – Albee

Scenes from an Execution – Barker

Victory – Howard Barker

Act Without Words 1&2 – Beckett

Endgame – Beckett

Uncle Vanya – Chekhov

The Way of the World – Congreve

The Visit – Dürrenmatt

The Suicide – Erdman

Translations – Friel

The Government Inspector – Gogol

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme – McGuinness

The Crucible – Miller

The Shadow – Schwartz

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare

King Lear – Shakespeare

The Oedipus Trilogy – Sophocles

The Real World – Tremblay

Dog in a Manger – de Vega

Fuente Ovejuna – de Vega

The Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde

Camino Real – Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Williams

The York Mystery Cycle

 

Nicholas Hytner

Hippolytus – Euripides

Oedipus – Seneca

The Little Clay Cart – Sudraka

Arden of Faversham – Anon

Edward II – Marlowe

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus – Shakespeare

Fuente Ovejuna – de Vega

Venice Preserv’d – Otway

The Provoked Wife – Vanbrugh

Nathan the Wise – Lessing

Wolves and Sheep – Ostrovsky

Miss Julie – Strindberg

Pelleas and Melisande – Materlinck

Spring Awakening – Wedekind

The Shadow of a Gunman – O’Casey

The Queen and the Rebels – Betti

Schweik in the Second World War – Brecht

The Hairy Ape – O’Neill

Live Like Pigs – Arden

The Hostage – Behan

Epsom Downs – Brenton

Playboy of The West Indies – Matura

Mad Forest – Churchill

Our Country’s Good – Wertenbaker

 

David Lan

David Lan

 

 

 

 

A Number – Caryl Churchill

American Buffalo – David Mamet

Blue/Orange – Joe Penhall

Far Away – Caryl Churchill

Happy Days – Samuel Beckett

Knives in Hens – David Harrower

Master Harold and the Boys – Athol Fugard

Sizwe Bansi is Dead – Athol Fugard

Miss Julie – Strindberg

Molly Sweeney – Brian Friel

Night Just Before The Forests – Bernard-Marie Koltes

Oleanna – David Mamet

Play – Samuel Beckett

Port Authority – Conor McPhearson

Quartet – Heiner Muller

Someone To Watch Over Me – Frank McGuiness

Le Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler

The Caretaker – Harold Pinter

The Censor – Anthony Neilson

The Country – Martin Crimp

The Dumb Waiter – Harold Pinter

The Lesson – Eugene Ionesco

The Maids – Jean Genet

The Zoo Story – Edward Albee

The Chairs – Eugene Ionesco

Disco Pigs – Enda Walsh

Dublin Carol – Conor McPherson

 

Sam Mendes

Persians – Aeschylus

Oedipus – Hughes (after Seneca)

Timon of Athens – Shakespeare

The White Devil – Webster

The Misanthrope – Moliere

Man and Superman – Shaw

Phedre – Racine

Fuente Ovejuna – Lope de Vega

Ivanov – Chekov

Ghosts – Ibsen

The Rose Tattoo – Williams

Strife – Galsworthy

Comedians – Griffiths

Mensch Meier – Kroetz

Cloud Nine – Churchill

Racing Demon – Hare

Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare

The Deep Blue Sea – Rattigan

Man is Man – Brecht

Bingo – Bond

Six Characters in Search of an Author – Pirandello

The Balcony – Genet

Travesties – Stoppard

A Flea in her Ear – Feydeau

The Well of the Saints – Synge

 

 Katie Mitchell

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The House of Bernada Alba – Lorca

The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov

The Three Sisters – Chekhov

Hedda Gabler – Ibsen

The Dolls House – Ibsen

The Maids – Genet/Crimp

Dream Play – Strindberg

Antigone – Sophocles

Vassa Zheleznova – Gorky

Iphigenia – Euripides

The Orestia – Aeschylus

The Glass Menagerie – Williams

Footfalls/Rockaby/Not I – Beckett

Krapp’s Last Tape – Beckett

Ashes to Ashes – Pinter

Mourning Becomes Electra – O’Neill

The Jewish Wife – Brecht

A Woman Killed with Kindness – Heywood

This is a Chair – Churchill

Attempts on Her Life – Crimp

A View From The Bridge – Miller

Arden of Faversham – Anon

The Dybbuk – Ansky

Live Like Pigs – Arden

Rutherford and Son – Sowerby

Latest News

  • JMK Trust announces new recipients of 2023 Victoria Wood Bursaries March 14, 2023
  • The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022 November 29, 2022
  • JMK announce Victoria Wood Assistant Director Bursaries with Leeds Playhouse and Royal Exchange Manchester November 16, 2022

Alumni

Diane Page Tristian Fynn-Aiduenu Winner 2017 - Josh Roche Winner 2016 - Roy Alexander Weise Winner 2015 - Liz Stevenson Kate Hewitt - winner 2014 Winner 2013 - Alex Brown Winner 2012 - Sam Pritchard Winner 2011 - Cathal Cleary Winner 2010 - Matthew Evans Winner 2009 - Caroline Steinbeis Winner 2008 - Michael Oakley Winner 2007 - Polly Findlay Winner 2006 - Jamie Harper Winner 2005 - Natalie Abrahami Winner 2004 - Anne Tipton Winner 2003 - Bijan Sheibani Winner 2002 - Joe Hill Gibbins Winner 2001 - Orla O'Loughlin Winner 2000 - Thea Sharrock Winner 1999 - Mark Rosenblatt Winner 1998 - Tassos Stevens

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Patrons: Dame Judi Dench, Baroness Howe, Sir Ian McKellen, Clare Menzies-Kitchin MBE and Tom Morris OBE (Founding Chair).  

The JMK Trust is kindly supported by The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust, Arts Council England, The Katie Bradford Arts Trust, The Leche Trust, Scops Arts Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, The Victoria Wood Foundation, The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust, The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund, The Patricia Routledge Foundation, The Hollick Family Foundation and all our individual donors.

Registered address: Talton Farm Cottage, Newbold on Stour, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 8UB.

Registered Charity: No. 295080

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The JMK Trust
  • Home
  • About
  • The JMK Award
    • About the JMK Award
    • Application process 2023
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  • National Programme
    • About the JMK National Programme
      • JMK Birmingham
      • JMK Bristol
      • JMK Edinburgh
      • JMK Manchester
      • JMK Newcastle
      • JMK Northampton
      • JMK Nottingham
      • JMK Reading
      • JMK Salisbury
      • JMK Stoke-on-Trent
      • JMK Yorkshire
    • #JMKSpace
    • JMK Director Practitioners
  • Assistant Director Bursaries
    • Victoria Wood Assistant Director Bursary – Leeds Playhouse
      • Apply: Leeds Playhouse Victoria Wood Assistant Director Bursary
    • Victoria Wood Assistant Director Bursary – Royal Exchange Manchester
      • Apply: Royal Exchange Victoria Wood Assistant Director Bursary
    • JMK Assistant Director Bursary Recipients
    • JMK Bob Carlton Bursary
  • Support us
    • How you can help
    • Support for Free with Online Shopping
    • Legacies
    • JMK Gift Membership & Awards Circle
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    • Thanks to our supporters
  • Blog
  • More information
    • Learn about directing
    • Archive Playlists
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact
  • Exploring the relationship between Director and Movement Director with Vicki Manderson
  • JMK Workshop – GROUPWORK – OUR DEVISING AND REHEARSAL PROCESS