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Derby Playhouse, UK >>>

1998

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The woman stands alone on the edge of the Cobb in Lyme Regis, an isolated figure swathed in cloak and hood, staring out over an endless grey sea and sky. There is no getting away from the movie or from that iconic image of Meryl Streep in this, the first ever stage version of John Fowles' 1969 novel. His book works on many levels, filtering the 19th century novel though mid-2Oth century consciousness, and mixing romance with Darwin, Marx and Freud to tell the story of the poor but educated fallen woman Sarah Woodruff who becomes the erotic obsession of the fossil-hunting gentleman, Charles Smithson. For the film version screenwriter Harold Pinter solved the problem of how to dramatise a novel whose inner life is largely in the footnotes, by creating a framing device of a story within a story; here adaptor Mark Healy matches Fowles' playfulness by cunningly embedding the writer as a major character in his own narrative.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

2006

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Adaptation

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Notes: from the novel by John Fowles.

Synopsis: updated version where lottery winner buys himself a cottage, abducts his fantasy lady and locks her in the basement. Having abducted and imprisoned her in the cellar he soon finds the reality is far from his fantasy and their tense claustrophobic realtionship leads to a devastating climax

Richmond / touring

2006

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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

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Adaptation

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Notes: from novel by John Fowles

Synopsis: The woman stands alone on the edge of the Cobb in Lyme Regis, an isolated figure swathed in cloak and hood, staring out over an endless grey sea and sky. There is no getting away from the movie or from that iconic image of Meryl Streep in this, the first ever stage version of John Fowles' 1969 novel. His book works on many levels, filtering the 19th century novel though mid-2Oth century consciousness, and mixing romance with Darwin, Marx and Freud to tell the story of the poor but educated fallen woman Sarah Woodruff who becomes the erotic obsession of the fossil-hunting gentleman, Charles Smithson. For the film version screenwriter Harold Pinter solved the problem of how to dramatise a novel whose inner life is largely in the footnotes, by creating a framing device of a story within a story; here adaptor Mark Healy matches Fowles' playfulness by cunningly embedding the writer as a major character in his own narrative.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

Exeter: Northcott Theatre, England, EUR >>>

1999

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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

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Exeter: Northcott Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2000

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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

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Notes: from the novel by Jane Austen

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