John Reid (Independent Producer, former manager/producer for Elton John and Queen)

“It was clear to me on first meeting Christopher Lane that we had really lucked out having him direct our show. Christopher shared our vision for the piece  and from day one made it his mission for this to happen - and it did. We felt totally secure with him at the helm and the team that worked on ‘Horses’ only has the fondest of memories of the rehearsal period and the show, thanks to him.”

James Thompson (Composer, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?)

About The Show:

This new musical by James Thompson and Ben Francis is based on the 1935 book They Shoot Horses Don’t They? by Horace McCoy.  The production premiered with a professional cast of thirteen at the George Wood Theatre in London in September 2008 as the centre piece of Goldsmith University’s Masters Degree Showcase. The workshop/rehearsal period for the project happened over  four weeks. Future plans for the production are pending.

• Music by: James Thompson
• Book and Lyrics: Ben Francis
• Produced at The George Wood Theatre, London,  September 2008
• Production and Rehearsal Photos by Joe Martin

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Tom Greenwald (Lyricist, john & jen)

“FOUR out of FIVE Stars”

The Sunday Express

“…an emotionally complex piece with searing, resonant songs that are both gorgeously melodic in their own right and full of wit and feeling.  Those qualities are expertly brought out in Christopher Lane’s intense and moving production…”

Mark Shenton, The Stage (Full Review)

About The Show:

Set against the background of a changing America between 1950 and 1990, john & jen is the story of Jen, and the relationships she has with the two John’s of her life; her younger brother and his namesake, her son.

• Music by: Andrew Lippa Lyrics by: Tom Greenwald       Book by: Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald
• Cast: Helen Evans (Jen)      Jon Hawkins (John)                  Musical Director: Elizabeth Nantais
• Produced at The Finborough Theatre, November 2007 in consultation with Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald

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Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald with the London john & jen team

Scott Handy (Actor; RSC, West End)

“It had that wonderful inside/outside feel as if one were watching events from long ago on some distant shore… I enjoyed the work… Well done!”

Giles Block (former Master of the Words, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre)

About The Show:

From its inception, the foundation for A Devilish Exercise was the Rose Theatre.  We chose to create a world, and a production, that was built on the elemental allure of this site, the aural offerings of the architecture, and on the human ethos that inspired Christopher Marlowe to write the plays that erupted at The Rose over four hundred years ago.  We bound together the tenets of Elizabethan Theatre, Site-Specific Theatre and the texts of Dr. Faustus, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine and Edward II and created a Marlovian encounter that resonated with a twenty-first century sensibility.

• Anthology/Adaptation Editor: Dr. Robert Lindsey
• Produced in conjunction with The Rose Theatre Trust on the site of The Rose Theatre (Bankside), February 2006
• Production Photos by Andy Bradshaw

Dr. Robert Lindsey (Editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays)

About The Show:

Beckett’s Shorts was an anthology production that included performances of Play, Not I, and two versions of Rough for Theatre I (one based on a traditional staging and the other a contemporary treatment).  The production was designed for an audience of forty-five, and  Beckett’s staging requirements were strongly adhered to and reverentially adapted as necessary to comply with the practices of staging in-the-round.

• Written by Samuel Beckett
• Produced as part of my Masters in Directing at the Central School of Speech and Drama, 2005
• Production Photos by Andy Purves

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Rehearsal Photos

Timon was a site specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.  Set on a central London roof top, this production was built around a cast of one man and five women who, using an adapted verse text, created a lavish roof top terrace party. The audience (in the role of party guests) were privy to the fiscal and emotional unravelling of Timon, and his shocking and untimely suicidal leap from the roof terrace.

• Adaptation by: Christopher Lane
• Produced as part of my MA in Directing at the Central School of Speech and Drama, June 2005
• Production Photos by Andy Purves

Photos Coming Soon.