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Polly Teale

POLLY TEALE

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Julia Tyrell Management  represented by Julia Tyrrell

Polly is the Joint Artistic Director of Shared Experience. Polly Teale has created a unique body of work as a writer and director that has won critical and audience acclaim with productions transferring to the West End and touring internationally. An award- winning theatre practitioner, she has been artistic director of Shared Experience since 1995. She has also authored a number of original plays and stage adaptations, including Jane Eyre, Bronte and After Mrs Rochester for which she won the Evening Standard Award for Best Director and the Time Out Award for Best West End Production. Other directing credits include: Bracken Moor, Mary Shelley, Speechless (co- writer/director), The Glass Menagerie, Mine (writer/director), Ten Tiny Toes, Kindertransport, Madame Bovary, The Clearing, A Dolls House, The House of Bernarda Alba, Desire Under the Elms, and, as co-director, War and Peace (co- production with National Theatre) and Mill on the Floss. In 2014 she will direct the UK premiere of BAKERSFIELD MIST by American playwright Stephen Sachs, starring Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid, in the West End.

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below is a list of Polly Teale's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         After Mrs Rochester         Bronte         Fallen         Jane Eyre         Jasmine And Violet         Mermaid         Mine         Now You See Me         Speechless         What Is Seized

After Mrs Rochester

After Mrs Rochester
Jean Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre - and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs Rochester and the 'madwoman in the attic'. Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean's alter ego, Polly Teale's remarkable Dramatisation of Rhys's life gives full vent to this obsession - which was to prove the catalyst for the Wide Sargasso Sea

Notes:
from the Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

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Organisations:
Shared Experience

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2003   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  doubling

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Bronte

Bronte
the short troubled lives of the Bronte sisters have become one the great literary myths of all time. How was it possible that three women who had never had sex, had probably never been kissed, could write some of the most erotic literature of all time? And why should these plain, reclusive women, who lived in rural isolation, have invented such stories. What was it in their lives that compelled them to write with such passion and power?

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Organisations:
Shared Experience

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2005   978-1854598820

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Play/Drama

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Fallen

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
Jane, untouched and innocent but intellectually his equal finally finds happiness with Rochester

Notes:
novel by Charlotte Bronte

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Organisations:
Shared Experience

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 1998   978-1854593290

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Jasmine And Violet

Synopsis:
exploration of sibling relationships and alter egos

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1st Produced:
Grassy Area Outside The Drama Department, Manchester University    circa 1982

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Mermaid

Mermaid
A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting. Beneath the ocean's waves there is no death or pain or separation. Above, the modern world is beset with war, poverty and desire. On her sixteenth birthday, a mermaid rises up to the surface, leaving her childhood behind for ever when she falls in love with a mortal prince. She knows that she can no longer live at the bottom of the ocean - but must she destroy herself in order to be loved?

Notes:
inspired by the story by Hans Christian Andersen

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Shared Experience

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Mine

Mine
they have a beautiful home and a glamorous life. In fact,everything they could wish for. Except for the one thing they want most of all. A baby. When they finally adopt, all they can think about is how much they have longed for a child. That is until the baby's troubled biological mother begins to haunt their every move and they slowly find their lives become entangled in a way no one could have ever imagined.

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1st Produced:
Warwick Arts Centre    02 Oct 2008

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Shared Experience

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Now You See Me

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1st Produced:
Vic Studio, London    1987

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Speechless

Speechless
Shared Experience and Sherman Cymru join forces to tell the extraordinary story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons. Refusing to speak to adults, the twins communicate in their own private language and have an intense and turbulent bond ith each other. Speechless is an astonishing and moving portrayal of the twins' secret world and their struggle to find a voice against all odds.

Notes:
By Linda Brogan And Polly Teale. Based on the Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace

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Shared Experience

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What Is Seized

Synopsis:
When your mother begins to loose her mind, you do too: you start to see spiders on the wallpaper just like when you were little. the physical and mental disintegration of a woman who must endure a masecotomy and whose cold bullying husband finally leaves her is movingly refracted through the prism of her daughter's memories.
- Ann McFarrar, Time Out

Notes:
from A short story by Lorrie Moore

1st Produced:
National Theatre Studio, London    1988

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Genre:
55 min monologue One Act

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