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Samuel Adamson (born 27 November 1969) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter who has lived and worked in the UK since 1991. He was born in Adelaide and lives in London.
Samuel Adamson's debut play was Clocks and Whistles at the Bush Theatre in 1996 in a production directed by then-artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, with a cast including Kate Beckinsale, John Light and Neil Stuke. It was later produced in Germany and New York. The play led to him becoming Pearson Writer in Residence at the Bush from 1997 to 1998.
Adamson's second play was Grace Note, starring Geraldine McEwan, in 1997 for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic, which was also directed by Dromgoole. His next play was Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie at the Bush in 1999. [1]
He has written versions of Henrik Ibsen's plays. A Doll's House , directed by Thea Sharrock, was the tenth anniversary production at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2003, while Pillars of the Community at the Lyttleton at the Royal National Theatre was directed by Marianne Elliott in 2005 and starred Damian Lewis and Lesley Manville.
He also adapted two plays by Anton Chekhov for tours for the Oxford Stage Company, both directed by Dominic Dromgoole: Three Sisters , which transferred to the Whitehall Theatre, and The Cherry Orchard which moved to the Riverside Studios. He adapted Bernhard Studlar's Vienna Dreaming at the National Theatre Studio and Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi for Dumbfounded Theatre at the Arcola Theatre in 2005 and also on BBC Radio 3. He also wrote Tomorrow Week for BBC Radio 3.
His play, Southwark Fair, was directed at the Royal National Theatre in 2005 by artistic director Nicholas Hytner, starring Rory Kinnear, Margaret Tyzack and Con O'Neill. His one-woman play Some Kind of Bliss was performed by Lucy Briers at the Royal National Theatre in 2006 and then at the Trafalgar Studios in 2007. He also wrote Fish and Company for the National Youth Theatre and Soho Theatre. In 2005 he contributed to the 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic and in 2007 to A Chain Play at the Almeida Theatre.
He wrote the screenplay for the 2007 short film, Running For River, starring Romola Garai.
All About My Mother, his stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's film Todo sobre mi madre , was produced to great acclaim at the Old Vic in 2007, starring Lesley Manville and Diana Rigg.
In 2008, he began working with Tori Amos on a musical adaptation of the George MacDonald story The Light Princess for the Royal National Theatre. His play Mrs Affleck, inspired by Ibsen's Little Eyolf , opened at the Royal National Theatre in January 2009, directed by Marianne Elliott and starring Claire Skinner. His adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's , starring Anna Friel and directed by Sean Mathias, opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London in September 2009.A Quiet Island was due to open at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2009, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, but was postponed.
His play Frank and Ferdinand, an interpretation of the story of the Pied Piper, was part of the National Theatre Connections Festival 2011 and was performed by young amateur companies all over Britain. In collaboration with trumpeter Alison Balsom he devised Gabriel, a play using the music of The Fairy Queen and other pieces by Henry Purcell, staged as part of the 2013 summer season at Shakespeare's Globe. [2]
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Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, in a production by a Danish company on tour. Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, it immediately generated strong controversy and negative criticism. Since then, the play has fared better, and is considered a “great play” that historically holds a position of “immense importance”. Theater critic Maurice Valency wrote in 1963, "From the standpoint of modern tragedy Ghosts strikes off in a new direction.... Regular tragedy dealt mainly with the unhappy consequences of breaking the moral code. Ghosts, on the contrary, deals with the consequences of not breaking it."
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote acquired the lease in 1747, and in 1766 he gained a royal patent to play legitimate drama in the summer months. The original building was a little further north in the same street. It has been at its current location since 1821, when it was redesigned by John Nash. It is a Grade I listed building, with a seating capacity of 888. The freehold of the theatre is owned by the Crown Estate.
Dominic Dromgoole is an English theatre director and writer about the theatre who has recently begun to work in film. He lives in Hackney with his three daughters and partner Sasha Hails.
Lesley Ann Manville is an English actress known for her frequent collaborations with Mike Leigh, appearing in the films Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Another Year (2010), and Mr. Turner (2014). She has been nominated for two British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Another Year (2010) and Phantom Thread (2017), with her performance in the latter earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Lisa Dillon is an English actress.
David Eldridge is a British dramatist and screenwriter, born in Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom. His plays have been produced in the West End and on Broadway. He has written for stage, screen and radio.
Blake Adam Ritson is an English actor.
Thea Sharrock is an English theatre and film director. In 2001, when at age 24 she became artistic director of London's Southwark Playhouse, she was the youngest artistic director in British theatre.
Rupert Goold is an English director who works primarily in theatre. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company (2005–2013).
Sean Gerard Mathias is a Welsh actor, director, and writer. He is known for directing the film Bent and for directing highly acclaimed theatre productions in London, New York City, Cape Town, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Little Eyolf is an 1894 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play was first performed in Norwegian on December 3rd, 1894, at a 9 a.m. matinee performance in the Haymarket Theatre in London.
Benjamin John Gareth Davies is a Scottish actor.
Peter Sullivan is an English film and television actor.
David Scott Ashton is a Scottish actor and writer. Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, 1964–67, he has acted in a wide variety of film, television, theatre and radio roles. He has also developed a parallel career as a writer of fiction, film and television screenplays and plays for theatre and radio. His radio play The Old Ladies at the Zoo, which starred Peggy Mount and Liz Smith, won the Radio Times Drama Award in 1985.
Marianne Phoebe Elliott is a British theatre director and producer who works on the West End and Broadway. She has received numerous accolades including three Laurence Olivier Awards and four Tony Awards.
Natalie Abrahami is a British theatre, film and opera director. She was Associate Director and Genesis Fellow at the Young Vic in London 2013-16 and Associate Artist at Hull Truck Theatre. From 2007–12 she was joint Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre with Carrie Cracknell.
Jack Andrew Lowden is a Scottish actor. Following a four-year stage career, his first major international onscreen success was in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace, which led to starring roles in feature films.
The 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 20 November 2011. The shortlist was revealed on 7 November 2011 and the longlist on 19 October 2011.
The 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 29 November 2010. The shortlist was revealed on 22 November 2010 and the longlist on 25 October 2010.
The Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on November 24, 2008. The longlist was revealed on November 4, 2008 and the shortlist on November 7, 2008.
