Mary Shelley (NHB Modern Plays)

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The little information we have about her early years comes from her famous defence of women's right to learning, in which she talks of her 'inclination' towards letters 'from the first light of reason', illustrating this with evocative anecdotes: The most recent was The Heresy of Love. Staged by the RSC, this was a story of religion, duty, art and the life of Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th-century Mexican nun and playwright. Next up is Mary Shelley, about to open at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. It's a work that explores fundamentalism, freedom and the dysfunctional relationship between the Frankenstein author and her dad William Godwin, the writer and philosopher. Edmundson doesn't do small-scale domestic drama: you'll wait a long time for a comedy of manners. "All my plays start with ideas," she says. "I wouldn't want someone to leave and not feel they've been made to think about the world they're living in. That's what writing should do." As a new, zealous and ruthless Archbishop is installed into sultry colonial Mexico, the ramifications of his appointment begin to ripple out amongst the people.

Top 10 theatre shows of 2019". The Guardian. 17 December 2019. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020 . Retrieved 21 December 2020.Pop Stars Little Mix to Host MTV Europe Music Awards – Global Bulletin". 20 October 2020. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020 . Retrieved 9 November 2020. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Classic Serial - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018 . Retrieved 19 September 2018. Plunkett, John (14 September 2015). "BBC's An Inspector Calls arrests nearly 6 million viewers". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018 . Retrieved 27 January 2019. Edmundson has written two short films for television: One Day, broadcast on BBC Two in July 1991, [29] and Stella for Channel 4. In 2015, she wrote two episodes of ITV drama The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Beyond the Pale and The Ties that Bind, starring BAFTA Award-winners Paddy Considine and Tim Pigott-Smith. In September of the same year, Edmundson's feature-length adaptation of An Inspector Calls, starring BAFTA Award-winners David Thewlis and Miranda Richardson, was broadcast on BBC One; [30] the programme won the 2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Single Drama [31] and was nominated for two 2016 British Academy Television Craft Awards. [32] In 2018, Edmundson wrote the film Mary Magdalene, which was directed by Emmy Award-nominee Garth Davis and starred Academy Award-nominees Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix. [33] She is adapting the novel The Awkward Age, to be broadcast by the BBC. [34] She wrote the first two series of crime drama Dalgliesh, executive producing the second. Dalgliesh was first broadcast on Channel 5 and Acorn TV and stars Bertie Carvel as the title character. [35] [36] She is currently working as showrunner, writer and executive producer of Belgravia: The Next Chapter, to be broadcast in 2023. [37] Radio [ edit ]

BBC Radio 4 FM - 20 March 2006 - BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 January 2018 . Retrieved 18 September 2017. Royal Society of Literature» Current RSL Fellows". rsliterature.org. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017 . Retrieved 24 April 2016. She stopped eating cheese for its damaging effects on the brain, and would cut her hair as a useless adornment when she failed in her learning Edmundson's first play Flying was produced at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992, her adaptation of Anna Karenina, produced by Shared Experience, won a Time Out Award and a TMA Award; the production toured nationally and internationally. [2] In 1993, Edmundson's original play The Clearing, which won the John Whiting Award, was staged at the Bush Theatre. [3] In 1994, her adaptation of The Mill on the Floss was also produced by Shared Experience, again touring nationally and internationally; Edmundson won a Time Out Award for The Clearing and The Mill on the Floss. [4] [2] In 1996, Shared Experience staged her adaptation of War and Peace at the National Theatre [5] in a production starring BAFTA Award-nominee Anne-Marie Duff; the play was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for Best Play. At the age of about eight, Juana was sent to the home of relatives in Mexico City, where she stayed until her presentation at the court of the new vice regal couple in 1664. Her arrival at courta b "Olivier Awards Winners 2009 -Official London Theatre". Olivier Awards. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020 . Retrieved 21 December 2020. May of the cast members and creatives were the same for the performances at the Swan Theatre, but there were some differences: Of her decision to become a nun, Sor Juana said that 'although I knew that this life had many things that were repugnant to my nature… it was less that the abhorrence I felt for marriage'. Outer Critics Circle Nominees Announced - Playbill". Playbill. 19 April 2016. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017 . Retrieved 24 April 2016. Shared Experience also staged her original adaptation of War and Peace at the National Theatre in 1996, and toured her adaptations of Mary Webb's Gone to Earth in 2004, Euripides' Orestes in 2006, the new two-part version of War and Peace in 2008, and the original play Mary Shelley in 2012.

Queen Anne tellsthe story of one of England’s little-known sovereigns, her friendship with Sarah Churchill and the birth of the free press in England at the turn of the 18th century. Child, Ben (21 January 2016). "Mary Magdalene biopic to be made by King's Speech producer". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018 . Retrieved 27 January 2019. Edmundson has adapted numerous literary classics for BBC Radio 4, including The Voyage Out in 2006, [38] The Mayor of Casterbridge in 2008, [39] Anna of the Five Towns in 2011 [40] and Sense and Sensibility in 2013. [41] Awards and honours [ edit ] Edmundson, Helen - Drama Online". www.dramaonlinelibrary.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019 . Retrieved 9 October 2019. Her adaptation of Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin was premiered by the Theatre Royal, Bath, in 2014, and was subsequently produced on Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company in 2015.Unable to do so, she read from her grandfather's library, learning so much that people were amazed by her knowledge 'at an age when many have not even learned to speak well' Aged three, she followed her sister to a girls' school and persuaded the schoolmistress to teach her to read, which she did 'in a short space of time' a b c "Helen Edmundson". Archived from the original on 29 October 2018 . Retrieved 21 December 2020. Small Island review – enthralling Windrush drama makes stylish return". TheGuardian.com. 4 March 2022.