Samuel Adamson”s plays include: Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios), All About My Mother (from Almodóvar; Old Vic), Fish and Company (Soho Theatre/National Youth Theatre), Southwark Fair (National Theatre), Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre/Channel 4), Grace Note (Peter Hall Company/Old Vic), Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre) and contributions to the 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic), A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre) and Urban Scrawl (Theatre Voice/Theatre 503). Adaptations include: Ibsen”s Pillars of the Community and Mrs Affleck, from Ibsen”s Little Eyolf, (both at the National Theatre) A Doll”s House (Southwark Playhouse); Chekhov”s The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company/Riverside Studios) and Three Sisters (OSC/Whitehall Theatre); Schnitzler”s Professor Bernhardi (Dumbfounded Theatre/Arcola Theatre/Radio 3) and Bernhard Studlar”s Vienna Dreaming (National Theatre Studio). Radio includes: Tomorrow Week (Radio 3). Film includes Running for River (Directional Studios/Krug). He was Pearson Writer in Residence at the Bush in 1997-8.
12 Ebooks by Samuel Adamson
Alexander Ostrovsky: Larisa and the Merchants
The Value of Something is Never its Price In a trading town on the banks of the river, penniless Larisa is desperate to marry and escape heartbreak and humiliation. But in this brutal world of transa …
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Samuel Adamson: Gabriel
This is noisily Protestant England – the England of William and Mary's Glorious Revolution at the end of a century of civil strife. This is London in the 1690s, the monster city tamed into awe b …
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Samuel Adamson & Tori Amos: Light Princess
I'm done, Father, Keep your crown, I swear you'll never bring me down!I am not queen material!Once, in opposing kingdoms lived a princess and a prince who had lost their mothers. Althea, un …
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Samuel Adamson: Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie
No one has recognised Reade Collins in the street for over a decade. Suddenly everyone seems to know who he is again – things are looking up. But there's a flip side to second-hand fame – and Re …
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Henrik Ibsen: Pillars of the Community
Calamity strikes when Bernick's business prowess and pristine reputation are threatened by the revelation of a long-buried secret. Desperate to dodge exposure in the kowtowing local community, B …
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Samuel Adamson: Southwark Fair
Simon is looking forward to lunch with Patrick Mulligan, the first man he slept with nearly twenty years previously, while playing Puck in a school production. It soon becomes apparent that Patrick i …
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Samuel Adamson: Some Kind of Bliss
Today – after I had the electric sex, got clobbered, killed the dog and parked the hijacked ice-cream van – I found the pop legend's house in Greenwich. 'Very funny, shrewd and moving.&apos …
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Samuel Adamson: Mrs Affleck
I know. No country matters. Not in the kitchen. Not on a Sunday. Not in England. After six lonely weeks with nobody but her disabled boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by …
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Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
Tea's cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud – for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, it's gone to hell. Only one thing can save him – a glamorous woman&apo …
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Samuel Adamson: Running Wild
For Lilly and her mother, going to Indonesia isn't just another holiday. It's an escape and a new start. But when Will takes a gentle ride along the beach on an elephant called Oona, calami …
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Samuel Adamson: Wife
– And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and walked out on your marriage. With nothing. Into nothing. – Into everything, I think. It's 1959. Ro …
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Samuel Adamson: Ballad of Hattie and James
– Have we met?- No: you're unforgettable. Do you want to play primo or secondo, James?At St Pancras International, a woman sits at the piano and begins to play. The music captivates commuters, t …
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