HELEN EDMUNDSON   


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Plays by Helen Edmundson

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.
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
Clearing, The
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
1993
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Genre:
Historical Play
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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
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
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.
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
Coventry Carol
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
Flying
1st Produced:
RNT Studio, London
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Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
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.
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
Ladies In The Lift
1st Produced:
Soho Poly, London
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
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
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
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:
-
Notes: -
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
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
Orestes
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
Shared Experience
1st Published:
-
-
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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
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
Pilate Workshop, The
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
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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
Synopsis: -
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
War And Peace
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
Shared Experience
1st Published:
1996
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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
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HELEN EDMUNDSON
War And Peace
1st Produced:
UK Tour
2008
Company:
Shared Experience
1st Published:
2008
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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.
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