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Emma Adams

EMMA ADAMS

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Ki Agency  

Yorkshire-based Emma Adams has been New Writer in Residence at West Yorkshire Playhouse and has also written for Slung Low, Red Ladder, Look Left Look Right and Ovalhouse.

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below is a list of Emma Adams's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Animals         Brimming         Fareeda the Third         For Sale         Forgotten Things         Freakoid         Gated Community Radio Hour, The         Home Sweet Home         Ugly

Animals

Animals
77-year-old Norma is having a tricky day. She can't finish the crossword and Joy keeps stealing her recliner. Not to mention Helen next door has twisted her ankle falling from a weather balloon, they've run out of Class A drugs and the Utility Inspector just popped round to see if it's time for her involuntary euthanasia. . .Animals is a wicked satire set in a world where everyone over 60 is tossed on the scrapheap, children are hothoused, and being a "burden on society" is the ultimate crime.

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Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783198801

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Genre:
satire 140 min

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Brimming

Synopsis:
wrestles with consumer capitalism, the earths dwindling resources and what it means to have enough, both in personal relationships and society as a whole.

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part of the enough Project, a double-bill of new plays from leading Northern voices, seeks answers to the question what is enough?

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Dep Arts

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One Act

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Fareeda the Third

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Tada Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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For Sale

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written specificaaly for the house it was performed in.

1st Produced:
-    2007

Organisations:
the Silver Hammer

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site specific

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Forgotten Things

Synopsis:
16 year old Toby is losing the will to live. His parents are frightened. They don't want to lose their baby. And then there's Grandma Lilly - she's just losing her mind. . .Toby's parents are out seeking help for him the night he decides to end it all. Luckily, having forgotten 'something important' Lilly interrupts to lead Toby into a mystery of half memories and family secrets. Finding the answers might just save both their lives.

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1st Produced:
The Carriageworks, Leeds    01 Oct 2008

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre Company

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Genre:
comic play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Freakoid

Synopsis:
Mauve New World offers a glimpse of a queer future as imagined by three artists: Emma Adams, Nick Field and Brian Mullin. In a Mauve New World, lesbian robot love may or may not be legal, the UK has deemed Queer to be 'sacred', and you can travel to a virtual Gay-topia to escape real-world oppression. A fantastical, slightly-queer, futuristic night out: all for just a fiver! Midsummer - Written & directed by Nick Field: A performance artist is presenting his newest piece. He explores memories of the vacations of his youth, before he was forced to leave his family to begin arduous religious training. Midsummer imagines a UK where the ancient, indigenous religions were uninterrupted and queer is sacred. A nation in which lifelong spiritual service is compulsory for queer people, and to rebel means exile. It Gets Better - By Brian Mullin: Gay teens are in danger: from bullies, oppressive governments, and their own private demons. But now there's a place where they can get away. Not somewhere over the rainbow - a state-of-the-art virtual world where everyone's all-gay, all the time. Who wouldn't be happy in a place like that?? Freakoid - By Emma Adams: Freakoid is the story of a woman coming to terms with the tricky discovery that her grandparents were a ZX-Spectrum and a Commodore 64. This discovery makes the love she feels for you illegal. So will love find a way?

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part of Mauve New World

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Genre:
Gay, one act

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gated Community Radio Hour, The

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1st Produced:
I Love West Leeds Arts Festival    2007

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Home Sweet Home

Synopsis:
What happens when you have to leave your own Home Sweet Home and find yourself in a different kind of home altogether? A home where anything can happen; where the day to day reality of caring and being cared for brings staff and residents up against bursts of beauty, high drama, Bollywood dancing and even a little magic. Join Rosa and Moses on a journey celebrating love, endurance and hope, which will change the way you think about getting old forever. Home Sweet Home is based on the true stories and experiences of over 200 older people from Bradford, Deptford and Stockton and features two performers from ARC's Silver programme of activity.

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1st Produced:
The Ukrainian Centre, Bradford    16 Sep 2014

Organisations:
Freedom Studios and Entelechy Arts

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Genre:
verbatim theatre

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Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Ugly

Ugly
In a world ever more focused upon global warming, climate change and the increased scarcity of resources Ugly is a dark comedy set in a future where food and water are dangerously scarce. a tale of four people who may have to kill their angels and become more like their devils if they are going to survive. emotional, intense and visceral, this play breaks rules. It will also break your heart. . .Ugly is not pretty, a timely reminder of what we are doing to our planet. . .reading it might just change your life.

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1st Produced:
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds    27 Sep 2010

Organisations:
Red Ladder Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1849430210

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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