In Remembrance Recital At The National Portrait Gallery - November 2017

Cast photo from left to right Tessa Uys
(pianist) Nicholas Farrell, Jordan
Bunton-Williams, Seiriol Tomos.

The Live Literature Company cast for our performance at The National Portrait Gallery on Armistice Day commemorating World War 1. It was a very moving performance of a programme Val devised focusing on 'In Parenthesis' by David Jones. When we left the N.P.G. all of the bells from St. Martin-in-the-Fields were ringing out in commemoration.

Radiophonic Workshop at The British Library - October 2017

Photo of some of the old Radiophonic Workshop team taken
at the Friday late at the British Library on October 13th 2017.

Val attended the Radiophonic Workshop at The British Library and was delighted to meet up with old colleagues from the workshop where she worked on attachment when she was a Studio Manager at the BBC.

Published article celebrates the Live Lit Co's 15th anniversary year - Sep 2017

Val has had her article published this month in the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution Newsletter. The article celebrates the 15th Anniversary year of the Live Lit Co, honouring many of the LLC’s achievements over those years, and it also shows what we have been about and so much we can be proud of. 

Please do click on the following links to read page one and page two of the article. We hope you enjoy reading it!





The Westray Wife, Orkney Islands - August 2017

Westray Wife, Orkney

Details of the neolithic Westray Wife.

The Westray Wife, Scotland's earliest representation of a human form. After the Edinburgh Festival this August Val visited the beautiful and historic Orkney Islands.

Tracey Emin And William Blake, Liverpool - August 2017



Tracey Emin and William Blake exhibition at Tate Liverpool, which Val visited on the way to the Edinburgh Festival in August this year. It was great to meet up again with people Val met previously who work at Tate Liverpool. The Live Literature Company has staged much Blake work, so this exhibition was an important visit linked to our work. There was a fascinating voice tape with the exhibition which featured Liverpudlians talking about their response to, in particular, Tracey Emin's bed!

Edinburgh Festival Visiting Arts producer/director meeting - August 2017


Above is a picture of Fergus Linehan, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival talking to the people who attended the Visiting Arts producer/director breakfast meeting at the Edinburgh Festival on August 24th. In the background of the photo is Yvette Vaughan Jones, Executive Director, Visiting Arts.

For 5 years running Val has been invited to be part of this meeting at the Edinburgh Festival representing The Live Literature Company.

Val With Alexandra And Scott At Brown's For A Celebration Tea - July 2017

Val with Alexandra and Scott at Brown's

Val took Alexandra and Scott to Brown's for a celebration tea in July 2017, to thank them for all their support and help running the Study Abroad at Anglo Educational. This is the study centre, the Niagara University Drama students take most of their classes at each Summer.

'Much About Nothing in One Hour' with LLC at Shakespeare's School Room - July 2017

Val with visitors from the United Arab Emirates
whowere in the audience for Live Lit Co's
performance of 'Much About Nothing in One
Hour'. One of the children is disabled and
loved the performance so much that
his mother brought him back the next day.

The Live Lit Co performed 'Much About Nothing in One Hour' at Shakespeare's Schoolroom, Stratford-upon-Avon in July 3rd this Summer. It was performed by students from Niagara University USA, who Val worked with to prepare the performance. The play was adapted and directed by Val Doulton.

Val and Harriet Walter at her 'Brutus And Other Heroines' Book Signing - March 2017

Val with Harriet Walter at her book signing of 'Brutes And Other Heroines'
at The National Theatre. 

Harriet performed in one of the programmes that Val staged at The Cheltenham Festival of Literature.

Val visits Samuel Beckett's grave

Val took this photo at Samuel Beckett's grave when she was
last in Paris at the end of March 2017. 


She put flowers on his grave with the Live Literature Company card as a mark of love and respect.