Image Theatre Company was set up in the spring of 1988 by the director Brian Thresh to provide theatre venues and schools in the West London boroughs and neighbouring counties with high quality touring productions. In 1993 Robert Hyman joined the company as composer / lyricist and as the relationship between director and composer developed it became evident that a change of company title was appropriate and Image Musical Theatre was incorporated in 1995.

For five years the company produced and toured three new musicals a year. In the spring, a new full length musical for an adult audience was toured to small and mid scale theatres in England and Wales. In the summer and autumn new family participation musicals were toured to local schools and small and mid scale theatres around the country.

During this entire five year period numerous bids were submitted to the Arts Council of England and London Arts Board to assist in the funding of a highly creative and successful sequence of new musical theatre. All were rejected. The reasons given reflected a fundamental artistic prejudice against musical theatre and writers that created productions that people want to see.

Since the abandonment of links to the Arts bodies the company has gone from strength to strength. A decision was made to cease production of the full length musicals and to concentrate on writing and producing participation musicals for schools and theatres.

The production emphasis is on the adaptation of popular stories, the classics, and the great plays of the English language with original work written when required. Since the summer of 1993 Robert Hyman has been part of the creative team as company composer and in partnership with Brian Thresh has written and produced fifteen new family participation musicals. In the spring of 1998 they wrote and produced their first full length adult musical, 'Vanity Fair', with 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' in 1999. 'Jane Eyre' in 2000. and 'Wuthering Heights' in 2001. Wuthering Heights is the fourth full length musical to be written as part of a long term programme to produce, in the spring of each year, a new full length musical for the national touring circuit.