Welcome to Primavera
Littler and his ambitious production company Primavera confirm that they are names to follow
- Evening Standard on Anyone Can Whistle
Primavera is an award-winning theatre company which focuses on revivals and rediscoveries. Our most recent production was Antigone at the Southwark Playhouse. We are now fundraising and preparing for our next production, Bloody Poetry, by Howard Brenton.
Thirty-something directors Rupert Goold and Josie Rourke are big names now, but those keen to talent-spot the next generation should take a look at Tom Littler. Increasingly impressive over a number of fringe productions ... how stimulating it is to see such a surfeit of directorial invention.
- Evening Standard on Antigone
Exuberant... Tom Littler's production runs like an all-singing, all-dancing train.
Five Stars, Time Out Critics' Choice, Show of the Week.
Primavera's Work
Primavera was founded by Artistic Director Tom Littler in 2003. Recent productions include Antigone, translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker; UK premiere of Madagascar, by JT Rogers, with Sorcha Cusack; the first revival of Charles Wood's Jingo: A Farce of War, starring Susannah Harker and Anthony Howell; The Rivals, with Celia Imrie, Ella Smith, and Charity Wakefield; and Bryony Lavery's Origin of the Species, with Marjorie Yates and Clare-Hope Ashitey. We recently produced the West End premiere of the first musical by Stephen Sondheim, Saturday Night which transferred to the Arts Theatre and Theatre Royal Windsor after a critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Jermyn Street Theatre, and a highly-praised reinterpration of Anyone Can Whistle.
Tom Littler's production, beautifully designed and lit by Will Reynolds, contains perfectly pitched performances
- Michael Billington, The Guardian on Jingo: A Farce of War
Look through our past productions page to see photographs and press reviews.
Patrons: Anonymous, Martin Bishop, Richard Buxton, Margaret Crowther, Tom Erhardt, Richard & Daisy Littler, Tom Littler, English Touring Theatre. Angels: Lord Archer, Lord Cobbold, Ian Cormack, Lord Parkinson, Anthony Salz, Douglas Shaw. Honorary Patrons: Peter Gill, Penelope Keith, Felicity Kendal, Peter Nichols, Diana Quick. Registered Charity No. 1124618