Mary Shelley (NHB Modern Plays)

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White, Peter (12 February 2018). " 'Downton Abbey' Producer Carnival Films Adapting 'The Awkward Age' For The BBC". Archived from the original on 15 June 2020 . Retrieved 17 April 2020. In February 2021, Edmundson's adaptation of Anna Karenina was revived at Sheffield Theatres' Crucible Theatre.

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. Royal Society of Literature» Current RSL Fellows". rsliterature.org. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017 . Retrieved 24 April 2016. 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.The Heresy of Love". Shakespeare's Globe. 2015. Archived from the original on 20 September 2018 . Retrieved 20 September 2018. . Written by Helen Edmundson and directed by John Dove. 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. But her talents draw the attention of the new Archbishop and the fight for Sister Juana's giftand her right to use it becomes a fight for the very soul of Mexico. Cast 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 court BBC Two England - 25 July 1991 - BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016 . Retrieved 24 April 2016.

Grand spectacle … Small Island has projections by Jon Driscoll and a set design by Katrina Lindsay. Photograph: Johan Persson 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: 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. 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.

Her original play The Clearing was first staged at the Bush Theatre in 1993, winning the John Whiting and Time Out Awards, Mother Teresa is Dead was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2002 and The Heresy of Love was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the Swan Theatre in 2012.

Top 10 theatre shows of 2019". The Guardian. 17 December 2019. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020 . Retrieved 21 December 2020. 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."

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. Sense and Sensibility, Classic Serial - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Archived from the original on 2 November 2018 . Retrieved 19 September 2018. Thérèse Raquin - Theater in New York". 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015 . Retrieved 17 April 2020.