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Patrick Sandford

PATRICK SANDFORD  

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Patrick Sandford is the Artistic Director of the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. He was previously Artistic Director at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. His adaptations include Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book, Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island and Kenneth Grahame's the Wind in the Willows -most recently performed at Derby Live. He translated Beach Wedding from the French Noces de Sable by Didier Van Cauwelaert. As a director, his productions have been seen in Australia, France, Germany, in the West End and on the fringe in London, as well as across Britain and Ireland. He won the TMAAward for Best Director for his productions of Much Ado About Nothing and the Winter Wife by Claire Tomalin.

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         Beach Wedding         Frankenstein         Happy Prince, The         Wind in the Willows, The

Beach Wedding

Synopsis:
a serious minded comedy about a female novelist whose creative juices have run dry after she is abandoned by her lover. She hires a male gardener, Bruno, ostensibly to transform her Normandy villa's sand dune into a flowering oasis; what she really eants, though, is a new muse and a bed partner.
Doninic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

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Original Playwright - Didier Van Cauwelaart

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Translation

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and ambitious young student, discovers the secret of creating life from the remains of the dead. But elation at his triumph is replaced by horror when he sees his monstrous creation. Abandoned by the one who made him, Frankenstein's Creature is left to a world that fears and rejects him, and soon his innocence turns to misery - and a murderous desire for revenge. . .Every word in Patrick Sandford's 'vigorous adaptation' (the Times) is lifted directly from Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel. One of the greatest horror stories of all time, and one that still grips readers today almost two hundred years after its first publication. All the more successful for staying faithful to the dark spirit of the original book, this adaptation includes notes on the first production and can be performed with a minimum of set and props, making it well suited for staging by schools and amateur theatre groups, as well as by professional companies.

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from the book by Mary Shelley

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adaptation

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Happy Prince, The

Synopsis:
High above the city sparkles the golden statue of the Happy Prince. One night a little swallow on his way to Egypt rests at his feet. Splish splosh...the little bird thinks it's raining and shivers...he looks up and realises it is not rain but real tears falling from the statue's eyes. the statue wants the little swallow to help him but it is growing colder, what is he to do?

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Adapted by Patrick Sandford, Russ Tunney And Scott Young from book by Oscar Wilde

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TYA

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Wind in the Willows, The

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from the book by Kenneth Grahame

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Derby theatre    27 Nov 2010

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Christmas Show

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