Mary Shelley (NHB Modern Plays)

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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. 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'.

Princess Anne has been plagued by ill health all her life and, despite 17 pregnancies, has produced no heirs with her husband, Prince George of Denmark. The union of King William III and Anne’s sister Queen Mary was also childless, leaving Anne in succession for the throne. The play opens with a searing performance of a song satirising current political events penned by a group of satirists whose influence grows throughout the play. 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.With the death of King William in 1702, Anne becomes Queen. England is at war and in a Grand Alliance with the Protestant nations against the Catholic Spanish and French sovereigns to prevent ‘The Pretender’ King Louis’ dominance in Europe.

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Yet, the 'Response' is also an act of contrition, for she understood that she was answering to the hierarchy of the Church, and that she would soon be forced into silence. It was Sor Juana's last significant work. Shaken by what she saw as an act of betrayal, Sor Juana waited three months before she delivered her 'Response of the Poetess to the Most Illustrious Sor Filotea', a virtuoso defence of the right of woman to an intellectual life, deftly matching the autobiographical with a dazzling account of female learning and a defiant decoding of men's (and the Church's) attitudes towards women of letters. Grieving for her recently deceased father and the loss of what would be her final pregnancy, Anne’s close advisors seek to influence the seemingly meek and vulnerable Anne from all corners. Sarah Churchill, her intimate friend since childhood, is granted key positions in the Royal Household and seeks to advise and manipulate Anne to further her own political agenda and career as well as that of her husband, the Duke of Marlborough. Lord Chancellor Goldolphin and Sarah’s husband Marlborough (trusted Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces) exert pressure to their own ends. Brown, Mark (3 October 2018). "Andrea Levy's Small Island novel to be staged next year". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019 . Retrieved 9 October 2019– via www.theguardian.com. Soon after, she gave up her extensive library and renounced her earthly ways. She retook her vows, signing her protestation of faith in blood. And she prepared, and again signed in blood, her death certificate, asking her sisters to fill in the date of the death of 'the worst woman that has ever been, I, the worst in the world'.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 ] Thérèse Raquin - Theater in New York". 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015 . Retrieved 17 April 2020.

Kennedy, Maev (1 February 2017). "Royal Shakespeare Company to stage Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 September 2018 . Retrieved 27 January 2019. a b "Olivier Winners 2006". Olivier Awards. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020 . Retrieved 21 December 2020. Helen Edmundson's first play, Flying, was presented at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992, she adapted Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for Shared Experience, for whom she also adapted The Mill on the Floss in 1994. Both won awards – the TMA and the Time Out Awards respectively – and both productions were twice revived and extensively toured. Shared Experience - Productions - Mary Shelley". www.sharedexperience.org.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 18 September 2015.

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Small Island review – enthralling Windrush drama makes stylish return". TheGuardian.com. 4 March 2022. 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. In February 2021, Edmundson's adaptation of Anna Karenina was revived at Sheffield Theatres' Crucible Theatre.