Judith Adams - Playwright & Dramatist

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  • - and after
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Current Projects

SOUTH RIDING

2011/12

New Commission

A West Yorkshire Playhouse 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.

directed by Alex Chisholm

For performance in the Quarry Theatre, 2011/12

LADY PURPLE WORKSHOP PHOTOGRAPHS

In development for production 2010

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

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AFFILIATED PLAYWRIGHT - UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

The Drama Division, School of Music and Drama, UoH

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 3 year Fellowship is in progress, to research and evolve new ideas for playwright training and dramatic text forms, based on new narratives explored through bioscience, biology, phonology, morphology, movement, music, video and dance.

The University supports this exploration, focused around two personal projects with cross-art form content: Lady Purple and Burdalane (see below), through involvement of staff and student personnel, and by allowing use of their studio spaces and facilities wherever possible.

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THE LOVES OF LADY PURPLE

In Development / Production: 2010

Following workshops funded by Arts Council England (Yorkshire), Whitestone Arts (Yorkshire), Fifty-Nine Productions (London/NY) and the University of Huddersfield in January and May 2008, a team of playwright + video/film designers, dancers, puppeteers, performers and musicians are conceiving and drafting the physical and linguistic/aural text of a dramatisation of Angela Carter's The Loves of Lady Purple,

Flick Production Company (David Edmunds Projects and Laura Clarke) are taking this project forward into a full development and funding bid to rehearse, build and open the show in Huddersfield in April 2010.

Our traveling fair will then be ready to roll.

For further inflormation please contact:

David Edmunds - david@davidedmundsprojects.com

Judith Adams - judith@judithadams.co.uk

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BURDALANE ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE PROJECT

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

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STONES WORKSHOP / FRANCE

April 8th-17th

"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak" (Macbeth)

Physical Training, Ensemble and Macbeth

Leader: John Britton

Au Brana Cultural Centre, Pauilhac, South of France

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DANCE WORKSHOPS / CORTES ISLAND / CANADA

July 12 - 22

Based at HOLLYHOCK Arts and Retreat Centre (BC CANADA)

Leaders:

Margie Gillis: Dancing from the Inside Out

Tedd Robinson: Functional Movement

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OUT OF AFRICA

Jan 2010

Dramatisation of the novel by Karen Blixen

BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Serial

Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane

- and after

25-27 September, 2008

Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield

Collaboration with students studying for the University of Huddersfield's MA in Ensemble Physical Theatre: Training and Performance.

exploring text and movement with John Britton and Chris Coe

PART ONE: GENESIS TO NEMESIS

7.30pm

Matinee 2.30 pm, Friday

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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

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

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CROW PLAY

November 2007-2010

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

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