Out of Joint is an outstanding company with an international reputation for new writing, touring new plays to middle-scale venues throughout the country. Our funding supports core costs.
The acclaimed new production of the Oliver Award-winning play drew rave reviews on tour and now reaches the new St James Theatre in London. In Our Country's Good, a ragbag group of convicts attempt to stage a play under the direction of an earnest young officer.
In Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning play, an earnest young officer, Ralph Clark, is tasked with directing a bunch of convicts in a comedy to celebrate the king's birthday. This new production is directed by Max Stafford-Clark, who directed the world premiere. Touring September 2012 - March 2013.
From designer Tim Shortall's model box, to timelapse footage of the set being built, Pete Rimmer talks us through the build for Our Country's Good, and preparing a set for touring.
Actors Ciaron Owens and Helen Bradbury talk about meeting an actor who discovered acting while in prison, and how this shed light on their stories in Our Country's Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Olivier Award-winning play.
Kathryn O'Reilly takes a break from Our Country's Good rehearsals to talk about crime, punishment and the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia. Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre Bolton's production, directed by Max Stafford-Clark, tours from September 2012.
January 2012: we spoke to audience members at Warwick Arts Centre and Oxford Playhouse who had seen production of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill. An Out of Joint and Chichester Festival Theatre production.
Cast members Victoria Gee and Emmy Sainsbury discuss the central character of Marlene and the themes of class and the cost of success in Caryl Churchill's landmark play Top Girls, touring to 17 March 2012
Catherine Trieschmann's play is set in a school in a small Kansas town that's been ripped apart by a tornado. A science teacher, newly arrived from Manhattan, gets into a storm of her own when she dismisses non-scientific theories about how life on Earth began as "gobbledygook". We spoke to audience members after an early performance.
Bang Bang Bang is Stella Feehily's play about human rights defenders wroking - and playing - in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here, audience members share their experience of the show.
Richard Bean's brilliantly original, funny and shocking play returns in Spring 2011. Visiting Dublin, Cork, Liverpool and Newcastle. Finbar Lynch reprises his acclaimed perfromance in the title role. Max Stafford-Clark directs. Full tour information: www.outofjoint.co.uk
Trailer for "The Big Fellah" - Richard Bean's darkly comic play about an IRA cell in New York. Spanning three turbulent decades it's a witty story of loyalty, disillusionment and betrayal. From Out of Joint and the Lyric Hammersmith. Directed by Max Stafford-Clark.
A trailer for Sebastian Barry's new (2010) play Andersen's English. Including interviews with actors Niamh Cusack, David Rintoul and Danny Sapani and director Max Stafford-Clark.
The play tours from February 2010, to Bury St Edmunds, Southampton, Leeds, Manchester, Coventry, Salisbury, Mold and London.
A trailer for Sebastian Barry's new play Andersen's English, including interviews with actors Niamh Cusack, David Rintoul and Danny Sapani and director Max Stafford-Clark.
The play tours from February 2010, to Bury St Edmunds, Southampton, Leeds, Manchester, Coventry, Salisbury, Mold and London.
Based on real events, Mixed Up North is a fiercely funny and moving new play about an attempt to unite ethnic communities in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley. Trish leads a youth theatre group designed to bring Asian and White teenagers together. But with a cast who think acting is gay, can she bring off her utopian dream? Meet the cast and director. Touring Autumn 2009.
Stella Feehily's new play is a comedy about love, family, mortality and responsibility. This trailer includes a preview from the play and intervews with actors Catherine Russell and Paula Wilcox, director Max Stafford-Clark and the writer herself. At Soho Theatre from 9 July 2009, and touring from September.
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Our Country's Good - London trailer
Our Country's Good - from model to workshop to stage
Our Country's Good - real life convict drama
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD - Crime, punishment and a voyage
Top Girls - Angie and Kitty's "dark" friendship
Top Girls - Success, class and loneliness
How The World Began - audience reactions
Bang Bang Bang audience reactions.wmv
THE BIG FELLAH - the hit play is back
Andersen's English Video v.2 OOJ.mov
