Judith Adams - Playwright & Dramatist
www.judithadams.co.uk"Judith Adams' script is dense as thick, black treacle but has the lightest of touches, melding myth and poetry with the everyday..." Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
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GUARDIAN BLOG April 2008
April 2008
(see Lady Purple project above)
"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."
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.
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.
GHOST
July 2006
July/August 2006 - Puppet Lab , with Symon Macintyre, Kim Bergsagel, Henrik Ekeus and Conrad Ivitsky-Molleson
Text for a promenade performance around street-based installations. A project by Puppet Lab, Edinburgh, linking poetry, puppetry, sculpture and radio. Funded by the Scottish Arts Council, and opening at the Leith Festival in 2006, Ghost then toured, with community involvement, to Forres, Buckie and Campbeltown.
