Theatre is about communication.  All our team members at APA understand that the most important part of our job is to enable the creatives and cast to communicate to audiences on so many levels, so that they can be immersed in the performance. 

For centuries, creatives have altered the state of audiences minds and enabled them to believe in what they see as an emotional experience.  Every performance takes audiences on a mind cruise.

And that ultimate communication with the audience… starts now.

Tim Anscombe and Stephen Holroyd have worked on numerous projects as producers since 1985. In 2010 we decided to produce as a team. It was at this point we realised that there were very few production service providers in our industry and that we had been individually providing first rate production management to arts organisations and producers for years. So, Anscombe Production Associates was born. After presenting back to back artistically successful productions of our own at the Dome and Theatre Royal Brighton we decided to include production services for other companies based on our own record as producers of theatre and events. We want for our clients the values which we have always given our own productions. QUALITY, VALUE, CARE and TOTAL AUDIENCE SATISFACTION. We understand budgets, we understand exploding limitations and we understand our clients. Take a look at our site, You will see from what we have assembled that we can offer you all the services that will make your journey from page to stage successful. If you have a production you wish us to manage or just wish to run an idea by us, please use our enquiry page. We look forward to hearing from you. We understand budgets, we understand exploding perceived limitations, we understand our clients.

‘ELVIS Las Vegas 1969’, premiered at The Woodville in Gravesend on Friday 28th April 2017 and played to capacity houses.

‘ELVIS Las Vegas 1969’ is based on the final few hours leading up to Elvis Presley making his return to the stage following years away from live performances making movies. Act 1 focuses on those tense hours where Elvis was surrounded by his closest and most trusted friends who helped to keep him calm in his preparation for the concert. We see the domineering behaviour of Colonel Tom Parker who ruled over Elvis throughout his career. We see the close friendship that Elvis had with Charlie Hodge and we then witness the sensitive and sometimes awkward relationship that he had with his wife Priscilla. The act 1 script has been carefully crafted by director/writer Gerry Tebbutt working from factual and historical information available from the time.

Act 2 is a replication of the famous concert that took place on 31st July 1969 at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in the presence of a star-studded audience. Initially intended to be a one-off concert, it then went on to play over 50 performances at the 2000 seat venue.

The cast includes; Scott Elvis in the role of Elvis Presley with Tom Dussek in the role of Colonel Tom Parker. Joe Connors plays Presley’s right hand man and confidant Charlie Hodge and Francesca Peplow, a young and talented graduate actress from GSA appears in the role of Priscilla Presley. There is a full supporting cast/band of 12 actor/musicians making up this company of sixteen players. A truly talented team of actors and musicians bringing this brand-new production to Gravesend for its World Premiere.

The production is directed and written by Gerry Tebbutt, the former head of musical theatre studies at Guildford School of Acting. Gerry brings a wealth of experience to this production as both writer and director and he will be joined by his wife, choreographer Jill Francis. Set and costume design by Stephen Holroyd, sound design by Marcus Wadland with lighting design by Brian Holt. The story is based on an original idea by Neale Hobday who can also be seen on stage in the production playing bass guitar.

To view the full programme pdf, click here.

Whatever format you wish your production to take….
We can help you at whatever stage your production has arrived.   We have managed large scale productions that have been up and running for a number of years and enabled productions which came to us as just a few words on a page. Our clients have given us concepts ranging from an empty park in Dubai in which to stage children’s spectaculars, a musical to produce which a client was still writing, and an empty warehouse which a client envisaged as a restaurant,  studio/lecture theatre,  gallery and aftershow ‘fall out’ club. We have even been given a list of acts, entertainers, volunteers and asked to build a tribute show around them.   These clients had no concept of setting nor had they ever produced anything like the show they wanted, we even booked a large-scale theatre for them and they made a profit when the dust had settled. We have arranged Arts Council colleagues to come and chat with potential producers and even changed the name of an opera company to attract better funding! Your production or concept is the standard, image and style you want in the final product. We see our job as visualising that concept and enabling you to create that image and style to the highest standard. That’s what we do, we care as much about your production as we would about our own.