- Helen Edmundson
Helen Edmundson is a British
playwright particularly well-known for her adaptations of various literary classics for the stage.Edmundson's first play "Flying" was produced at the National Theatre Studio in
1990 . Since then, her work for the theatre has included: "The Clearing", first performed at theBush Theatre ; "Mother Teresa is Dead ", at theRoyal Court Theatre ; and four stage adaptations forShared Experience Theatre - "Anna Karenina " and "The Mill on the Floss ", both of which toured nationally and internationally, "War and Peace ", which was produced at the National Theatre in1996 , and "Gone to Earth" which was seen on tour and at theLyric Hammersmith .Her adaptation of
Jamila Gavin 's award-winning children's novel "Coram Boy" premiered at the National in November2005 and came back for a revival at the same venue a year later. Her most recent work for Shared Experience, "Orestes - Blood and Light", toured in the UK in autumn2006 and played at theTricycle Theatre until December 2006. "The Clearing" received theJohn Whiting Award for best new play, as well as aTime Out Award. She also won TMA and Time Out Awards for "The Mill on the Floss", "Anna Karenina" and most recently, a Time Out Award for "Coram Boy". Edmundson has written twoshort films fortelevision : "One Day" forBBC2 and "Stella" forChannel 4 , and her adaptation of "The Voyage Out " was heard onBBC Radio 4 in 2006.
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