Judith Adams - Playwright & Dramatist
www.judithadams.co.uk"Adams' words are superb... beautiful and moving." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
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Current Projects
SOUTH RIDING
2011/12
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
BUDDENBROOKS
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.
tbb April 2011
OUT OF AFRICA
2010/11
Dramatisation of the novel by Karen Blixen
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Serial
Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
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.
Research in progress, to explore and evolve new ideas for playwright training and the embodying of text, 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 workshop-based word-creation processes) and psycho-physical training (exploring, with my university colleagues, a new, body-based module for playwright training)
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.
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.
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
