Producing

Through Midland Creative Projects Limited (and through previous work with Book Communications), Jonathan Davidson has produced four ‘live literature’ productions. We are currently in dicussions with Bloodaxe Books about a new production for 2011. Please contact us for more details.

Current Producing work…

A production for the stage of poems from a forthcoming Bloodaxe Books anthology, provisionaly titled Being Human.

Archive Producing work includes…

Staying Alive, Co-production with Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead.

Using poems from the Bloodaxe Books anthology of the same name, this production used a team of three actors, a designer, composer and video maker to produce a show that toured across the UK during 2003. Produced by Jonathan Davidson. Directed by Steve Byrne.

Being Alive, Co-production with Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry.

Using poems from the Bloodaxe Books anthology of the same name, this production used a team of three actors, a designer, composer and video maker to produce a show that toured across the UK during 2005. Produced by Jonathan Davidson. Directed by Steve Byrne.

Changing Lives, Co-production with Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry.

Using poems from books published by Bloodaxe Books over the previous thirty years, this production used a team of three actors, a designer, composer and video maker to produce a show that toured across the UK during 2008/9. Produced by Jonathan Davidson. Directed by Steve Byrne.

Woods Beyond a Cornfield, Production for Lit-Up Showcasing Conference 2009

Using a selection of poems by Stanley Cook (published by Smith/Doorstop), this production was a fifteen minute piece developed for the Lit-Up conference at Kendal in 2009. Produced and Directed by Jonathan Davidson.