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SAMUEL ADAMSON (1969 - ) |
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Nationality: Australian/British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Samuel Adamson is currently working on The Light Princess, a collaboration with Tori Amos for the National Theatre. His work for theatre includes: Breakfast at Tiffany's from the novel by Truman Capote (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Mrs Affleck a new play from Ibsen's Little Eyolf (National Theatre); Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios); All About My Mother (from Almodovar's film, Old Vic, Winner of Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Best New Play Award 2008; Southwark Fair (National Theatre); Fish and Company (National Youth Theatre at Soho); Pillars of the Community (from Ibsen, National Theatre); Professor Bernhardi (from Arthur Schnitzler, Dumbfounded at the Arcola); A Doll's House (from Ibsen, Southwark Playhouse); The Cherry Orchard (from Chekhov, Oxford Stage Company Tour and Riverside Studios); Three Sisters (from Chekhov, Oxford Stage Company Tour and Whitehall Theatre); Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre); Grace Note (Old Vic); and Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre).
Plays by Samuel Adamson
Alice's Diner | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110602 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
All About My Mother | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | presented by Daniel Sparrow and Neal Street Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780571239528 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69552 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | based on the film by Pedro Almodovar | |||||
| Following the tragic death of her beloved son, Manuela goes to Barcelona in search of his father. But before she can exorcise her guilt she gets caught up in the lives of three women: Agrado, a long-lost transvestite friend, Rosa, a young nun in search of love and Huma Rojo, the famous actress that Manuela's son so admired. As Manuela's life begins to have meaning once more, her son's father returns and the journey of discovery and forgiveness comes full circle. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Boston Manor | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100411 | |||
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Genre: | internet play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of the Theatre 503/TheatreVoice "Urban Scrawl" series of short plays plays for the internet | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Breakfast At Tiffany's | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal - Drury Lane, Catherine Street, London WC2B 5JF >>> | 29 Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | Colin Ingram Ltd | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100412 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | various other small roles; doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | based on the novella by Truman Capote | |||||
Synopsis: | New York City, 1943. William 'Fred' Parsons, a young writer from Alabama, meets Holly Golightly, an elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William - but he is poor, and Holly needs rich. Will she marry Rusty, playboy millionaire? Or Jose, the future president of Brazil? As war rages in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with William - and then her past catches up with her. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Chain Play, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, (not for commercial sale), 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63698 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Samuel Adamson, Moira Buffini, David Hare, Charlotte Jones, Frank McGuinness and Roy Williams each wrote a link for the Almeida's first chain play, performed for one night only as the theatre's major fund-raising event. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Cherry Orchard, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Oxford Stage co | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #209 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | Spring 1903. Russia. And the cherry orchard is up for sale. Chekhov's great comedy in a new version | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Clocks And Whistles | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford. also published in Asking and Telling (anthology), Stage and Screen, 2000, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868165 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #210 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| centers around Henry, an introverted young man who's making the first tentative steps toward considering himself gay. Despite this, he remains infatuated with his best friend Anne, an aspiring actress who's as outgoing as Henry is shy. When Henry develops a strong attraction to the hedonistic and free-wheeling Trevor, they begin to see each other--until the bisexual Trevor meets Anne and the two begin a secret affair. Confronted by this betrayal, Henry finds himself caught between his interest in Trevor, his deep feelings for Anne and the fear of losing both of them forever | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Doll's House, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #208 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1b 1g | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | the story of Nora, the delicate and over-protected wife of Torvald Helmer, who bravely walks away from her confined marriage in a quest for freedom and self-enlightenment, remains poignant and real for modern-day audiences. Naïvely, Nora has secretly borrowed money for her husband by forging her father's signature. Krogstad, her creditor, has discovered her fraud and threatens to expose her in order to ruin Torvald. When Torvald finally finds out, Nora is appalled that he would protect his own reputation rather than support her. | |||||
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Drink, Dance, Laugh And Lie | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #211 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | No one has recognised Reade Colins for over a decade. Suddenly everyone seems to know who he is again. But there's a flip-side to second-hand fame. A satirical look at the cult of celebrity. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Fish And Company | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | National Youth Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56025 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 2 small roles (male or female, can double) | |||||
Notes: | originally written for the National Youth Theatre; all the characters are 22 or younger. | |||||
Synopsis: | April 1999, and seven young internet entrepreneurs win the national lottery. But for Toby Fisher and his mates, entry into adulthood is a deadly game of chance. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Frank & Ferdinand | ||
| 1st Produced: | site specific Islington, London | 14 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Islington Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125477 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Cast size 6 leading parts, and an ensemble of as many as possible | |||||
Notes: | part of the National Theatre Connections 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | A village in a war-ravaged country wakes to find that one hundred and thirty children have vanished. Only four are left: Otto, Aloysius, Sarah and Flora. Interviewed by a Military Inquiry, each child tells the events of the night before. But their accounts seem to differ. Who is the elusive Sebastian and why does the Inquiry's depiction of him keep changing from delinquent to charmer and back again? What's real, and what's fairy-tale? It's just . . . if we had peace . . . I wonder what colours I'd see with you. If all we had was the normal things I long for, just sky and school and music, like in stories, then who would you be, Sebastian? A short, satirical mystery about the suppression of truth, the making of myths, and how we see what we want to see, not what's there. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Grace Note | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781872868219 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #212 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| woman has plans of her own when she decides to leave sheltered accommodation and return to her old home - despite her children's worries | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Mrs Affleck | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 Jan 2009 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-057311289-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88939 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 2 boys (aged 9). Extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Samuel Adamson's play takes Ibsen's Little Eyolf as the inspiration for a passionate and tragic tale of obsessive love, set in 1950s England. After six lonely weeks with nobody but her crippled little boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by jealous love, welcomes home her husband Alfred. But, far from the passionate reunion she so craves, there is only torment as Alfred's possessive half-sister arrives, and he announces his great revelation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Petronella | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50210 | |||
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Genre: | Short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 10 minute play as part of the 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman dying on a cancer ward confronts her politician husband about his affair. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Pillars Of The Community | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | NT | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London (acting edition: Samuel French, London, 2007), 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780571231553 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44832 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | Various non-speaking extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. published by Samuel French, London (acting edition), 2007 >>> | |||||
| Shipbuilder Karsten Bernick is a respected, highly successful businessman in a small Norwegian coastal town but his wealth has been founded on a lie and now he is threatened with exposure. As the wily, unscrupulous Bernick struggles to preserve his standing in the community, he sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy all he holds most dear. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Playhousekeepers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Private Drama, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49251 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Burbages build Shakespeare's Globe | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Professor Bernhardi | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Oxford Stage Company & Dumbfounded Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49257 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler | |||||
Synopsis: | Vienna, 1900. A Jewish doctor prevents a Catholic priest from absolving a dying patient. A witch-hunt ensues. A new version of a rarely-performed play about anti-Semitism | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Recollections Of Scott Forbes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1AZ | 01 09 2011 | ||||
Company: | Headlong | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422308 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132451 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood. | |||||
| No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond. | |||||
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Some Kind Of Bliss | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Jul 2006 | |||||
Company: | presented by Adam Knight | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780571241101 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56026 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally presented as a National Theatre Platform Performance | |||||
| Small-time hack Rachel sets off down the Thames Path for an interview. But between London Bridge and the celebrity lies a series of unpredicted events | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Southwark Fair | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | NT | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45552 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Past misdemeanours bear down on the present when Patrick calls up one lover, Simon, with another in mind. When Patrick's wife discovers what he's up to, she pursues Simon through the maelstrom of London's South Bank, were a Bird Whistler flogs his wares, a trainee barista primes himself for his wedding, and an elderly actress stalks the Deputy Mayor. Unexpectedly connected by time and place, a tangle of lost souls fight, fall in love and lay their private fears bare in this contemporary comedy of manners. | |||||
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Three Sisters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Whitehall Theatre, London | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Oxford Stage Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49253 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
Synopsis: | a new version of Chekhov's great play about three sisters stuck in a garrison town | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Tomorrow Week | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC Radio 3 | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49252 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Olivia is pregnant and married to Guy. One week in her life - the week of her birthday - and family reunions, significant meetings and chance encounters are all on the agenda. Where will Olivia find herself a week from tomorrow? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Vienna Dreaming | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49254 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bernhard Studlar | |||||
Synopsis: | The first English language translation of Bernhard Studlar's acclaimed play about apathy and racism in contemporary working-class Vienna. | |||||
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