Graham & Townley Productions is a theatre partnership founded by Stephen Graham and Hilary Townley, producing new plays, musical theatre, music performances and entertainment at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London venues.
They develop their own projects as well as co-producing, advising and managing other productions.
We are delighted to co-produce the first major stage adaptation of Sir Tony Robinson’s BAFTA-winning TV series. Following a successful workshop in late 2025, this production revives the beloved 90s comedy—famous for its pop-culture spoofs and songs—where Maid Marian is the true brain behind the operation.
Partners: Co-produced with Thomas Hopkins, John Rogerson, and Haffner Wright Theatricals.
Cast: Workshop cast included Rufus Hound.
Graham & Townley are currently exploring the future life of this sharp new comedy by Paul Twivy.
Paul Twivy is a comedy writer and author whose extensive credits include collaborations with Ian Hislop, Richard Curtis, and Chris Tarrant, alongside his tenure as President of the Oxford Etceteras. Beyond theatre, he has advised three UK Prime Ministers and authored the global bestseller Change the World for a Fiver.
Set against the backdrop of a bizarre “festival of the near-dead” in rural Spain, Chaos unfolds in an obsessively ordered eco-boutique hotel where two vastly different families collide. The arrival of Dinah, a chaotic and emotionally incontinent New York art teacher with her long-suffering lawyer husband and troubled daughter, immediately disrupts the peace—especially when they encounter a morally concerned social worker, her disillusioned engineer husband, and their vulnerable son. What follows is a dark, comic, and revealing examination of the chaos inherent in our modern times.
Graham & Townley Productions brought together three retired medics, three magicians, one actor, one recovering journalist and two producers (who still magically add up to only 5 people). We formed Just Like That Productions to revive the ever popular magic Monday nights at The Gatehouse.
Our first show was in October 2023 and we’ve continued with sell out shows ever since.
Magic At The Gatehouse is an evening of magic. Every show features a different line-up of the Uk’s top magicians.
Please find further details at upstairsatthegatehouse.com and justlikethatproductions.com.
Köln Concert 51 was performed this January in London to a sold-out audience receiving a standing ovation.
This performance follows the triumph of Köln Concert 50, which Ford performed in Cologne in January 2025 on the exact 50th anniversary of the original concert. That anniversary event sold out, drew several audience members from the 1975 performance itself, and received major acclaim in UK and European press. In the year that followed, Ford’s tribute was invited to the Liverpool International Jazz Festival and the Aberdeen Jazz Festival, building on its earlier success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, where critics hailed it as “one of the true glories of the Festival.”
Köln Concert 51 continues this artistic journey — not as a recreation, but as a living improvisational response to a piece that has shaped half a century of musical history.
“Highlight of Liverpool Jazz Festival for me, Dorian Ford’s masterly reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert. Intense, gripping and quite beautiful.”
Further details are now on dorianford.co.uk.
Building on the triumph of its hour-long proof of concept at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, the show is now being expanded into a full-length production.
Blodlina captivated audiences with its thrilling sword fights and a musical score ranging from haunting folk to heavy metal. It seamlessly blends modern themes into a story inspired by Norse mythology, creating a gripping new family musical experience.
“this is a show with an edge”
“This exciting show is ripe to be taken to the next stage of development”
Musical Theatre Review
“absolutely fantastic songs … total show-stoppers”
Starburst Magazine
“Feisty sword fights”
“completely captivated”
Mini-Travellers
