The Invincibles

Ellie has combined theatre-based work with a wide range of critically acclaimed site-specific productions. These include The New World Order - based on some of Pinter’s short plays – at the Brighton Festival and at the Barbican Bite Festival, The Erpingham Camp by Joe Orton on Brighton Pier (both of these for Hydrocracker Theatre Company), As You Like It at Arundel Festival and A Christmas Carol, under the arches at Southwark Playhouse where she was Artistic Director from 2007-2010.

She was Associate Director at Sheffield during Samuel West’s reign where she first directed Finn Kennedy’s How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, later revived at Southwark Playhouse to great critical acclaim. She also directed a Sheffield tour of The Elephant Man.

Other productions include: Macbeth (RSC), Invincible (St James Theatre) which was nominated for Best Ensemble and Best Director at the Off West End Awards, Once We Were Mothers, Strange Orchestra and Man of Letters by Tim Firth (all Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Daisy Pulls It Off (Sherman, Cardiff), God of Carnage (National tour), Tanzi Libre (Southwark Playhouse) Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest and The Importance Of Being Earnest (New Wolsey, Ipswich), The BFG(Derby Live) and According to Brian Haw for YMT.

Ellie has recently joined the team of writer/directors creating short musical film, Vanishing Point, Miss Interpreted and Dirty Stop Outs and Adventure in Space for the Looping The Loop Festival. Ellie is a regional producer for BAC’s Collaborative Touring Network and also runs the street theatre company Melon Twisters who bring their own brand of madness to the streets of Kent.

Ellie's recent credits include: #chipshopthemusical (Freedom Studios) and Invincible (Orange Tree Richmond and St James London).

Amanda Whittington is one of the most widely performed playwrights in the UK. Her plays include Be My Baby (Soho Theatre, 1998), Satin ’n’ Steel (Nottingham Playhouse, 2005), Ladies' Day (Hull Truck, 2005) and its sequels Ladies Down Under (Hull Truck, 2007) and Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck, 2022), The Thrill of Love (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 2013), Kiss Me Quickstep (New Vic Theatre, 2016),  Mighty Atoms (Hull Truck, 2017) and The Invincibles(Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, 2023).

She has adapted Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, My Judy Garland Life and Tipping the Velvet for the stage. She writes regularly for BBC Radio 4, contributing to the Woman's Hour serial and Afternoon Play slots.

Her stage plays have also become a popular choice for amateur, community and school productions across the country.

Contains references to injury, depictions of injury, references to war, references to intimacy, and intimacy.

This amateur production of “The Invincibles” is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.