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Judith Adams

JUDITH ADAMS

  
Nationality:    British
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Currently affiliated to the Department of Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, pending a Fellowship, Judith is developing her own and their projects in word and body collaboration. She has written extensively for radio, new media and site-specific performance over her ten-year career. the BURDaLaNe Project, centred at the University, intends to create and tour a full ensemble production of Judith's first award-winning play. the West Yorkshire Playhouse has commissioned a main house Dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's SOUTH RIDING for 2010 and recent radio work includes versions of akutagawa's the BaMBOO GROVe and Susanna Clarke's MRS MaBB and an original play based on Charlotte Bronte's confession in a Brussels Cathedral at the time of Villette's biographical genesis: I BeLIeVe I HaVe GeNIUS. the original production of VILLeTTe at the Sheffield Crucible was Judith's first professional commission.

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

         Bone Room, The         Burdalane         Clickwind         Fool's Mate         From the Waist Up         Girls Of Slender Means, The         Little Mermaid, The         Queueing For Everest         Supper         Sweet Fanny Adams In Eden         Villette

Bone Room, The

Synopsis:
a young Charles V of Flanders shipwrecks on the North coast of Spain on his way to visit his mother Juana, locked in a tower at Tordesillas, to claim the crown of Spain from her. He is captured and then entertained by a group of Picaros who with their mysterious "Queen" lead him through episodes of Spain's history to a meeting with his mother, where a critical decision has to be made for his own future and that of the world

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Organisations:
Theatre alba Production

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Burdalane

Synopsis:
Burdalane' takes us on a voyage to the remote island of St. Kilda in the eighteenth century. alexander Carlisle, a scientist, is going to check the condition of a mad woman. Only she's not mad, she's angry. the woman in question is Rachel erskine, Lady Grange, whose husband has declared her dead, staged an elegant Edinburgh funeral marred solely by the second Lady Grange's attendance, and shipped her off to St. Kilda to rot. Carlisle's luggage consists of eight barrels of whisky intended to hasten the lady's demise[. . .]" Time Out

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1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>    12 Nov 1996

Organisations:
One Horse Production

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Clickwind

Synopsis:
It is enrolment Night in 3007 and Bradford University set in a landscape wasted by human and natural devastation, now exists only under the protection of a sky-blue Bio-dome classed Universe City which is dedicated to Sir Edward appleton, discoverer of the Ionosphere. Those seeking asylum in the bio-dome must sign up for a lifetime (and beyond) of unusual commitment to its core mission statement: Be Useful. On this particular night, however, there are alarming distractions: strange bursts of static from invisible back-rooms and an unidentified bolt of light hurtling towards the Bio-Dome which has something to say.

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Fool's Mate

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Rnt Studio    -

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From the Waist Up

Synopsis:
a woman goes to the hairdressers and her hair turns into snakes. a baby strikes up a conversation with a window cleaner. an old woman at a Day Centre remembers her fairground youth. their stories reach an airborne climax around the angel of the North.

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Girls Of Slender Means, The

Synopsis:
Poised on the edge of a defining moment in 1945, a community of young women in bomb-damaged London is living in extraordinary and momentous times. This bold and witty adaptation of Spark's favourite novel - about sex and the availability of it, money and the lack of it - is as chilling as an arctic winter, slashing the face of romantic relationships like flying glass

Notes:
from novel by Muriel Spark

1st Produced:
Assembly @ George St (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)    2009

Organisations:
Stellar Quines & assembly

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Little Mermaid, The

Synopsis:
Based on the story by Hans Christian andersen

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Genre:
chidren 7 - 10 Youth audience

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Queueing For Everest

Synopsis:
When Georges leaves his sick wife Sophie and flies out to meet thea at everest base camp, their goals seem simple: to continue an affair and to climb the highest mountain in the world. But when a sherpa guide and an elusive photographer join them on their journey they enter a mysterious territory of ghosts. Some, like Mallory, are children of the mountain; others have travelled with them from their pasts.

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Oberon Modern Plays, London, 2000   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  BFasts & Ghosts

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Supper

Synopsis:
John Harvey and Judith adams create an aural excursion into the thoughts of others. Director Symon Macintyre invites you to watch two couples at a dinner party. Through headphones you will eavesdrop directly into their minds.

Notes:
written by John Harvey And Judith Adams

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Organisations:
the Puppet Lab by John Harvey/Judith adams

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Sweet Fanny Adams In Eden

Synopsis:
Hypertext was composed using website models, with a view to creating a flexible mosaic of text-based installations which will fit any outdoor orindoor site and also culminate in an inter-active computer journey through a modern examination of eden as a concept and as a personal experience of our past childhood

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Organisations:
Stellar Quines Theatre Company

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Genre:
Site specific play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Villette

Synopsis:
Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's Villette

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Genre:
adaptation

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