Judith Adams - Playwright & Dramatist
www.judithadams.co.uk"Adams' words are superb... beautiful and moving." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
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Whitestone Arts Research Centre
Creative Workshop Space, West Yorkshire
Adapted 17th Century Pennine longhouse
www.whitestonearts.co.uk
info@whitestonearts.co.uk
+44 (0)1535 644644
Current Projects
BUDDENBROOKS
tbb 2012
Dramatisation in 3 episodes of Buddenbrooks, The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
BBC Radio 4 CLASSIC SERIAL
Produced/directed by Chris Wallis, Autolycus Productions
Banned and burned by Hitler, Buddenbrooks is Nobel prize-winning Thomas Mann's first masterpiece, published when he was 25, in 1901.
Little known outside Germany (where it was dramatised for TV in 1979 and made into a 2008 romantic movie), it is a tender, witty, exquisitely detailed and ironically detached fiction emerging from his childhood in Lubeck. Mann's tone is, in fact, perfect for radio.
OUT OF AFRICA
b. April 25th-29th 2011
Dramatisation of the novel by Karen Blixen
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Serial
Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
RADIO TIMES EASTER MONDAY CHOICE:
"fleeting but vivid impressions...beautifully conveyed..." Jenny Roper
"Last week's Out of Africa, starring Emma Fielding, adapted by Judith Adams, directed by Gaynor Macfarlane, was so good I forgot the film. This version understood the magic of a voice, was delicately frugal with music and effects, stole into the mind as if projected straight onto the imagination. It was, in other words, pure radio.": Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph
THE HIRELING
b.June 19th and 26th June, repeated: Sat 25th June and Sat 2nd July.
two-part dramatisation of the novel by L.P.Hartley
BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
Produced/directed by Chris Wallis
PICK OF THE WEEK TIME OUT:
"Moving steadily and with almost unbearable inevitability towards emotional disaster, this..tale...is as much about sincerity as it is, after all, about class." Lisa Mullen
PICK OF THE WEEK/RADIO'S FIVE OF THE BEST RADIO TIMES:
"Unmissable....a beautifully played indictment of the chasm between the classes in 1950s Britain"Jane Anderson
Pick of the Week also: Independent, Times, Observer, Daily Mail****, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
"a compelling adaptation.."
"an excellent cast..."
"Simon Day, rapidly expanding his range and reputation.."
"a compelling two-parter..."
DEVIL IN THE BOX: The Golem Project
2011 -
Ongoing development of a live theatre project with Simon Warner, Nicola Stephenson, Eilon Morris (PhD researcher in rhythm and training), Hannah Dalby and Stacey Johnstone, (MA graduates in Ensemble Physical Theatre) from the University of Huddersfield, exploring the scapegoat in art, society and history and devising a piece of cross-art touring performance.
A Whitestone Arts Development Project
WHITESTONE ARTS WORKSHOPS AND PROJECT RESEARCH CENTRE
Our Yorkshire-based company, WHITESTONE ARTS established in 2003, now has a small residential and training facility in our converted farmhouse buildings on the moors near Haworth.
This is a newly converted research centre which is available for hire and aims to host the initiation and/or fostering of innovative shows, installations, exhibitions and other cross-disciplinary artistic and educational projects: our own, and those of other parties sympathetic to the company's aims.
To see more details, click on the link above.
SOUTH RIDING
2011/12
A Whitestone Arts project.
South Riding - An English Landscape by Winifred Holtby
published (posthumously) in 1936
Dramatised for ensemble performance by Judith Adams
"I want to do something hard, muscular, compact, very little emotional and then the emotion hammered into style. Metal work, not water colour." Winifred Holtby.
For performance in 2012/13
Current status:
Second draft text and movement ensemble workshop West Yorkshire Playhouse, December 6th-9th 2010
10 performers
video design Mic Pool
choreography Lucy Hind
AFFILIATED PLAYWRIGHT - UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD
The Drama Division, School of Music and Drama, UoH
Affiliated to teach on MA courses Writing for Performance and Ensemble Physical Theatre, Training and Performance within the Department of Theatre, Drama and Performance.
This relationship with the University assists my ongoing research into physicality and the playwright, exploring the practice and pedagogy of contemporary playwrighting (outside the convention of the 'well-made play') in the areas of: dramaturgy (through interrogating my own word-creation processes), collaboration and psycho-physical training.
The University supports this exploration, focused around exploring ways of creating a performance ensemble responsive to the nature of my texts through involvement of staff and student personnel, and by allowing use of their studio spaces and facilities wherever possible.
LADY PURPLE WORKSHOP PHOTOGRAPHS
May 2008
Local, national and international artists assembled for two workshops hosted by the University of Huddersfield Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance in January and May 2008, for a total of 7 days.
These workshops were funded by Arts Council England (Yorkshire), Whitestone Arts (Yorkshire), Fifty-Nine Productions (London/NY) and the University of Huddersfield
