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Wilma G Stark

WILMA G STARK

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Wilma G Stark is a writer/translator for theatre. She was in her former life a radiographer for 25 years. After diagnosis of a neuro-muscular condition she went back to university to study languages (graduating MA, University of Glasgow, 2004) and parallel to this began writing. Since her first foray into drama-writing with co-writer Maggie Rose and Carlo Iacucci, Scars of War,Edinburgh Fringe 2002, she has gone on to work in The Arches under the directorship of Andy Arnold in the I Confess monologues in 2004, then as translator of Mad Cow, written and directed by Alessandro Valenzisi, 2005. Her Venus monologue has been translated and incorporated within The Lift Project, at the Milan Arts Festival, October, 2008; produced by Teatro del Contagio, directed by Omero Affede. The Venus monologue was also published in an anthology of the I Confess monologues: Fairplay Press. Capercaillie Books Ltd 2008. Clara was produced and performed in September, 2009 in Oran Mor, Glasgow; performed by David Walshe; Directed by Susan Worsfold with mentorship and support from Julie Ellen and Playwrights' Studio, Scotland (and the music of Chopin). Her 'Scottish' play, The Barking House, was performed at The Storytelling Centre in September 2012, with Director Morna Burdon, and actress Margaret Fraser and using the music of Scots Fiddler Duncan Chisholm. This play was created after intensive workshops with Morna Burdon and Margaret Fraser. She has been involved in the script and development in a radio documentary - The Leningrad Siege and the Leningrad Albums which won The Best Radio Documentary at the Media Awards 2011. She is working within her own local community (Lochranza, Isle of Arran) to collect and collate tales from older residents and dramatise and perform these/film and record/publish. She is presently researching for a new drama - The Big Lie - about war, using memoirs and artefacts belonging to her Uncle who served and died in France in WW1; and the music/song of Ciaran DorrisDulce et Decorum Est She is also at present writing a Children's Story for The Starchild Charity. The Tedwards on a Mission incorporates a specially written work by singer/songwriter Jean Livingstone and will be published this year.

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below is a list of Wilma G Stark's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Barking House, The         Clara         Mad Cow         Scars Of War         Venus

Barking House, The

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Wilma's story of the Barking House, already has a strange magic that somehow expresses very clearly the old, practical, yet deeply poetic spirit of a community [ and of humanity]. the same feeling is still alive today. Her telling of the story is poetic and incantatory with riveting impact. Alison Prince; author, playwright.

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Lochranza and Catacol Hall, Lochranza, Isle of Arran    19 Sep 2010

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performed reading

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Clara

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written by Wilma G Stark in collaboration with the Actor David Walshe in A series of intensive worshops

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Mad Cow

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written And directed by Alessandro Valenzisi

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Translation

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Scars Of War

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Just before the start of the Second World War a young Scottish woman meets and falls in love with an Italian immigrant

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Written by Carlo Iacucci, Maggie Rose And W G Stark

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Italian Scottish Connections

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Venus

Venus
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part of "I Confess" A series of monologues. these monologues reflect A growing interest in the theme of confession And the subject of other people's lives in contemporary Drama And television, including the so-called reality' shows which Abound in today's programme schedules. In A live context the experience of direct one to one contact can be Alarming And exhilarating by turns. Funny, moving, disturbing And challenging, these monologues will be of interest to Actors in search of An Audition piece As well As directors on the lookout for A new And highly flexible way of making theatre.
- Hugh Hodgart, Head of Acting RSAMD

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short Monologue

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