HELEN EDMUNDSON
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Helen Edmundson
Anna Karenina |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | Shared Experience | |||
| 1st Published: | 1992 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: From novel by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Synopsis: Helen Edmundson's hugely successful stage adaptation for Shared Experience Theatre Company of the classic novel by Tolstoy, which won the Time Out Award for the Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992. | ||||
Clearing, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1993 | |||
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| Genre: | Historical Play | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: won the John Whiting and Time Out Theatre Awards. Peer-reviewed article published on the play, listed by the MLA international bibliography by K. Sarah-Jane Murray - http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/30162.pdf | ||||
Synopsis: Shows the devastating effects of Cromwell's racial persecution on a small farming community in 17 century Ireland | ||||
Coram Boy |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | NT | |||
| 1st Published: | 2005 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||
Notes: from a novel by Jamila Gavin. This play was originally written to be performed on the National Theatres Olivier stage; however, there is no reason at all why it cannot be fully realised in smaller, simpler spaces. We did make use of the Oliviers revolv | ||||
Synopsis: Set in the 18th century, Coram Boy is a tale of two cities - Gloucester and London - and a tale of two boys: Toby, saved from an African slave ship, and Aaron, the illegitimate heir to a great estate. It is also a tale of fathers and sons: slave-trader, Otis, and his son Meshak; and landowner Sir William Ashbrook and the son he disinherits. | ||||
Coventry Carol |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Flying |
| 1st Produced: | RNT Studio, London | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Gone To Earth |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Shared Experience | |||
| 1st Published: | 2004 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | 1 musician | |||
Notes: from novel by Mary Webb | ||||
Synopsis: Incorporating traditional dances and folk songs, Gone to Earth tells the story of Hazel, an innocent and free-spirited 17-year old child of nature living in rural Shropshire. But when both the black-hearted squire and the idealistic minister fall in love with her she is drawn into a world of earthly passions which threatens to destroy her. | ||||
Ladies In The Lift |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Mill On The Floss, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||
| Company: | Shared Experience | |||
| 1st Published: | 1994 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from George Eliot | ||||
Synopsis: An intensely moving dramatisation of George Eliot's feminist novel which 'not only reinvents the book, but pushes the boat of theatricality way beyond its usual moorings. . . The central concept is having three Maggies - a conceit that is thrillingly effective in performance.' Guardian | ||||
Mother Teresa Is Dead |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2002 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Marl arrives in a village near Madras to try and find his wife. He does not understand what has driven her to abandon her young son. Jane cannot explain why she needed to escape or how she ended up looking after children in India or what is in the bag she's been holding on to. India is hot, dusty and poor, and a long way from their comfortable life in London | ||||
Orestes |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Shared Experience | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides | ||||
Synopsis: Helen Edmundson's free version of the play, with its brooding meditation on matricide and guilt, revenge and justice. proves almost liberated to escapism's point. This Orestes is only "based" on the original, omits the chorus and several characters, while Helen of Troy's daughter, Hermione, is infantilised. Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard | ||||
Pilate Workshop, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Devised | Piece | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: devised by the company with Michael Boyd, Helen Edmundson, Liz Ranken, Paul Sirett and Janet Sonneberg. Inspired by Pilate, the biography of an invented man by Ann Wroe | ||||
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War And Peace |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | Shared Experience | |||
| 1st Published: | 1996 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | one-part version | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: From novel by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Synopsis: The ghosts of 1805 swirl into view and the present gives way to the past with a dramatic fluency | ||||
War And Peace |
| 1st Produced: | UK Tour | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Shared Experience | |||
| 1st Published: | 2008 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | two-part version | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: From novel by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Synopsis: One of the longest novels in Western literature, Tolstoy's War and Peace intertwines its epic account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia with the tale of three aristocratic families. Painted on a vast canvas of locations, characters and experiences, Helen Edmundson's stirring adaptation is an intricate saga of families, love and friendship against a backdrop of war. | ||||