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I BELIEVE I HAVE GENIUS

17th April 2008

RADIO CHOICE/PICK OF THE DAY: Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph

...an atmospheric heart-breaker of a play.****

A fictional version of Charlotte Bronte's Brussels experience

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play

pr. Jonquil Panting

17th April 2008, 2.15pm

AVAILABLE ON BBC WEBSITE 'LISTEN AGAIN'

CAST:

Rosie Cavaliero/ Laura Molyneux as Charlotte Bronte

Julian Rhind-Tutt as Monsieur Heger

Mark Meadows as Chapelle

David Shaw-Parker as Priest

Anne-Marie Piazza as Mary Taylor and Sophie

Elaine Claxton as Mme Heger and Tabby

Discussion on Bronte Blog

GUARDIAN BLOG April 2008

April 2008

Guardian Blog, Lyn Gardner

(see Lady Purple project below)

"with the technology at their fingertips, answers and images can be conjured by theatre makers immediately during the rehearsal or devising process, sound can be fed directly into the ears of the audiences in pieces such as Small Metal Objects or Judith Adams' Ghost or Clickwind.

"...But we've come a very long way from the first faltering steps taken by ambitious young companies such as Fecund 15 or so years ago, to the point when earlier this year Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer of Fifty Nine Productions - who have contributed brilliant work to Katie Mitchell's Waves and Attempts on her Life and the projection design for Warhorse - were made the National Theatre's youngest ever associates. In July some of the multimedia techniques explored in Waves will be further developed by Fifty Nine for Mitchell's latest piece ...some trace of her, inspired by Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

"From what I've seen of it so far, Fifty-Nine's contributions to the productions on which they collaborate, whether it is in Black Watch or the adaptation of the cartoon Alex, are integral to the production and always in service of it. But I keep seeing productions in which it appears as if playing with the technologies is the prime interest of the theatre-makers, rather than the show itself."

MARGIE GILLIS / UBC WORKSHOP (VANCOUVER)

17th / 18th / 19th March 2008

A workshop funded by the University of British Columbia, Canada with solo dancer and choreographer Margie Gills and Professor Michelle LeBaron to explore, through dance and language, the negative and positive character of conflict - its nature and its possible uses.

MRS MABB

March 2008

45 minute dramatisation of a short story by Susanna Clarke

BBC Radio 4

pr. Elizabeth Allard

with Emma Fielding

Broadcast March 18th 2008, 2.15pm

"Mrs. Mabb was absolutely excellent. Everything I hoped for and more. Well done to Judith Adams for adapting the story and to Elizabeth Allard for producing. And thanks, of course, to the wonderful cast who brought the story to life.

9.5 out of 10. More, please!"

Friends of English Magic

SUPPER

August 2008

For the 2008 Edinburgh Festival

Produced by Symon MacIntyre / Puppet Lab

A unique headphone performance in which the audience are present in the thoughts of two diners as they join their friends for a light supper.

Assembly Rooms

Scripts by Judith Adams and John Harvey

Soundscape by Henrik Ekeus

IN A BAMBOO GROVE

January 2008

RADIO TIMES Pick of the Week Spoken Word Choice

RADIO CHOICE: Observer, Independent on Sunday, Saturday Guardian, Times, Independent, Daily Telegraph

45 minute dramatisation based on a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1921). Afternoon Play (Watershed/BBC production) for Radio 4

Broadcast Wednesday 23rd January 2008, 2.15pm

Starring Derek Jacobi

pr. Chris Wallis

THE LOVES OF LADY PURPLE

In Development

WORKSHOP FUNDING JANUARY - MAY 2008 CONFIRMED BY ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND (YORKSHIRE)

Development workshops to explore a performance language for the iconic short story from the Fireworks collection by Angela Carter, with Fifty-Nine Productions, dancer and choreographer Will Tuckett, puppeteers Faulty Optic and John Barber, dancers Holly Bright and Margie Gillis, musician and singer Chris Coe and the University of Huddersfield Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance.

Live performance 2009/10

AFFILIATED PLAYWRIGHT - UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

January 2008 -

"...one of the best resourced drama departments in Europe"

From October 2007, affiliated to teach on MA courses within the Department of Theatre, Drama and Performance: Writing for Performance and Ensemble Physical Theatre, Training and Performance. An AHRC application for a 2-3 year Fellowship is in progress, to research and evolve dramatic text forms based on new narratives explored through bioscience, biology, phonology, morphology, movement, music, video and dance.

Also to explore personal projects with cross-art form content.

BURDALANE ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE PROJECT

January 2008 -

The University of Huddersfield has generously agreed to fund a major feasibility study as Stage One of a full-scale professional production of the full performance-based text.

Facilitator and director: John Britton, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance and cracking good at impro and Being Appleton.

Drama Department, UoH

THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS

November 2007

Dramatisation of the novel by Muriel Spark - live performance text with integral video sequences commissioned by Stellar Quines and warmly approved by Dame Muriel Spark, looking for co-producers or a producing house. Two sold-out public readings at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, with cast of twelve.

See EXTRACTS section for text example.

Sweet Fanny Adams in Hyperspace Eden

November 2007 - uploading, to be edited

An online version of the 2003 play Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden by Fifty-Nine Productions, who acted as dramaturgs and video design artists on the original site-specific garden show produced to great acclaim at the Pitlochry Plant Collectors' Garden in the 2003 Edinburgh Festival by Stellar Quines Theatre Company.

"How to describe this bizarre and beautiful circus of a show, which provides an unforgettable landmark......a show about men and women and creation that manages to be deeply and thought-provokingly feminist, while never losing its brilliant streak of genial, engaging showmanship." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman.

CROW PLAY

November 2007

Private commission in collaboration with Paula Frunzetti and Mirela Iacob (Romania). To be composed in English, Romanian and Bird.

WOMEN ON THE BRINK

November 2007

Text provision on the hoof (or wing) for international 3 year project exploring depression and creativity. Co-production between Edinburgh (Stellar Quines), Montreal (Imago Theatre) and Romania (National Theatre of Timisoara). Workshops at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 2006, National Theatre of Timisoara 2007.

CLICKWIND

June 2007

Created by the Company, with text by Judith Adams

dr. Alan Lane

pr. Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

Company: Ben Eaton, Jason Hird, Richard Warburton, Henrik Ekeus (sound), Emma Bowskill, Louise Gibson, Hester Read, Ellen Chivers, Sameena Hussain, Ruth Hoffman, Josephine Philbin, Vicky Pratt, Dominic Gately, Lucy Hind, John Britton, Suzanne Louise Parry, Victoria Jones, Clea Friend, Andrew Johnston

Enrolment Night, 2007: Bradford and its University, set in a landscape wasted by human and natural devastation, is now concentrated under a sky-blue Bio-dome called Universe City and dedicated to Sir Edward Appleton, discoverer of the Ionosphere. The institution is keen to welcome the right kind of asylum seeker through its doors for a lifetime (and beyond) of unusual commitment to its core mission statement: Be Useful. This particular night, however, there are alarming interventions: strange bursts of static from invisible back-rooms and an unidentified bolt of light hurtling towards the Bio-Dome with something to say.

SHAKESPEARE'S DAUGHTERS

December 2007 -

Epistolatory revelations, with Sue Limb

This forthright union of Trinny and Susannah and Charlie's Garden Army with Shakespeare in Love is sure to contain startling new evidence of the surprising importance of Birmingham in the cultural renaissance and plumbing advances of Elizabethan life. Edgebaston Racing Monthly

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