Alice: An Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Oberon Modern Plays)

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Personally, I would have liked more glitter in the set - well it is Christmas - and couldn't really recommend it for the under tens if only because of its length and complexity. I may be proved wrong by the end of the week. From 2007 to 2011, Wade lived with actor Samuel West, [21] son of actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales. [22] [23] After a two-year split, Wade and West reunited, and now have two daughters, born in 2014 and 2017. [24] Plays [ edit ] Published [ edit ] In theatre circles, the award-winning Wade is known for the precision of her writing and you feel her deadly accuracy in every sentence, every phrase, of Posh. Most of the play's action takes place in the private room of a country pub in which the Riot Club's members are meeting for one of their notorious dinners. The object of the evening is trashing: they get trashed and then they trash the room; the smashing of, say, only one chandelier by the end of the night will be considered a poor show.

Gobo is a new charity that gives young people their first paid job in the theatre. If this is the talent they have to work with then they’re worth supporting. Throughout the long development process, Lavender adds, Wade kept a close hold on the boys she had created. Did having your own children while writing it influence the plot or the message? During the six years we were developing the show, Tamara [Harvey, the director], Katherine [Parkinson, who plays the lead role] and I had two children each, but we never ended up giving the couple in the play children because it felt like a purer decision for them to live the 50s if they didn’t have them. The idea of being a stay-at-home mum seemed more socially acceptable than a woman leaving her job to be a housewife and look after her husband.

Cinema audiences may wonder whether a new character in Wade's screenplay – a state school undergraduate from Huddersfield called Lauren Small – is intended to represent the author herself. Initially no more than love interest, her later mistreatment makes the class conflict all too tangible. Wade's first play as an A-level student also featured a character close to her own experience. Limbo was staged in a studio at the prestigious Crucible theatre and was all about "a teenage girl in Sheffield going through extremely mild emotional difficulties", Wade once recalled. "I'm very good at research," she added. Snow, Georgia (31 October 2014). "Posh leads Nottingham Playhouse's spring 2015 season". The Stage. Nottingham . Retrieved 31 October 2014.

Graham O'Mara was on slightly dodgy ground as the Cheshire cat - 'Stroke my tummy' - but this scene was handled with consummate tact by director Lyndsey Turner, and O'Mara's convincing and innocent cat like purring deflated any thoughts of impropriety. John Biddle and Oliver Birch's double act as Tweedledum and Tweedledee was beautifully delivered and very funny. 'How cool is that?'Brian Cox and Bill Paterson return to Lyceum for 50th anniversary season". list.co.uk. The List. 14 April 2015 . Retrieved 19 April 2015. de Semlyen, Phil (13 May 2014). "New Trailer For The Riot Club". Empire. Bauer Consumer Media . Retrieved 14 May 2014. Our production involves a mixed age cast, including a number of roles being undertaken by members of our drama classes. A family production par excellence! And it worked. In 2005, when she was still only 27, her first and second plays ran simultaneously in London: her debut, Colder Than Here, at the Soho theatre, and her second, Breathing Corpses, at the Royal Court. They won her a Critics' Circle award for most promising playwright and an Olivier award nomination.

And it's certainly an interesting show which definitely becomes curiouser and curiouser. I suspect also funnier and funnier as the cast relax. Does she find writing easy? "Not really. Some parts are agony. I certainly don't wake up and haemorrhage ideas." Posh, with its cast of 14, is her biggest play to date. But it was a less lonely business than usual. "Lyndsey and I worked on it scene by scene; there was no terrible moment when I handed this thing to someone, saying, 'That's my heart and soul on a plate.'"Wade adapted the unfinished Jane Austen novel The Watsons into a play, which premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre on 3 November 2018, directed by Samuel West. [17] It had a further run at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 20 September 2019. [18] The West End transfer of The Watsons was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. [19] The life of a playwright is, she concedes, an odd one: the "massively introverted" months of working alone, followed by the "massively extrovert thing" of having a play on. And right now, it is even weirder than usual. Her boyfriend, Sam West, is starring in the West End hit, Enron, a show she has seen seven times. Sundays have become "very precious". West is a noted birdwatcher. Has he given that up by way of a concession? No. "I think I thought it was a bit dorky at the beginning," she says. "But actually, it's thrilling. I love it. It's about evolving a different way of looking and hearing. We go all over and it's nice having something that we do that isn't about the theatre, though it isn't necessarily very calming when you're driving five hours to see a bird that may, or may not, have flown away by the time you get there." Film4, which produced The Riot Club with Blueprint Pictures and the BFI, had its eyes on Wade as soon as it knew the play was under way, according to commissioning executive Sam Lavender: " It was beautifully written, witty, tough and humane, and she clearly had a great ear for the voices of these young men. I saw it a couple of times more after its transfer to the West End, and half the fun for me became watching the crowd's reactions to her characters, how torn they were between liking and judging these guys. That takes great skill to pull off." Cooke, Rachel (25 November 2007). "Best of the West: Rachel Cooke interviews actor Sam West". The Observer. UK . Retrieved 6 June 2015. Since her first major dramatic success ( Colder Than Here, which premiered at the Soho Court Theatre in 2005), Laura Wade has gone from strength to strength in the world of theatre and film. If you aren’t already a fan of her introspective and dynamic work, here are half a dozen reasons why you should be… 1. She makes difficult themes accessible