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Samuel Adamson
An epic, life-spanning tale of friendship, music, and the moments that change a person forever.
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Samuel Adamson's ingenious, wildly entertaining adaptation of Peter Carey's bestselling novel.
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Rita Affleck is a sensual, intelligent woman, stifled by circumstances. Her troubled ex-serviceman husband Alfred returns home after six weeks in the Scottish Highlands and vows to devote himself to…
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Shipbuilder Karsten Bernick is a successful businessman in a small Norwegian coastal town but his wealth has been founded on a lie and now he is threatened with exposure. As…
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Samuel Adamson’s Wife premiered at Kiln Theatre, London, in May 2019.
Samuel Adamson,Tori Amos
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.
Samuel Adamson’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel Running Wild was premiered by the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in 2015.
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Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler’s work has come to define Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. Translated for the stage by Samuel Adamson. Professor Bernhardi (1912) is one of the best…
Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen’s best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women’s rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in…
Anton Chekhov
Samuel Adamson’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is a dark and funny exploration of cross-purposed love, bitter jealousy and a dysfunctional family.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Chekhov’s widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation
For Madame Ranevskaya, her cherry orchard is more than just land. Returning for the first time since her son drowned there, she must come to terms with the fact that…
