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Helen Edmundson FRSL (born 1964) is a British playwright, screenwriter and producer. She has won awards and critical acclaim both for her original writing and for her adaptations of various literary classics for the stage and screen.
Mar 15, 2012 · Helen Edmundson: the hit woman. Some people don't think Helen Edmundson writes 'real plays'. Now she's having the last laugh. F our years ago, when Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Her Naked Skin...
Small Island tells the story of the Windrush generation, Caribbean immigrants who traveled to England in search of a new life and exciting opportunities. Beginning in Jamaica, before the onset of the Second World War, through to 1948, the play follows the journey of three interconnected characters: Hortense, Gilbert, and Queenie.
Mar 7, 2022 · Helen Edmundson’s adaptation deftly traces the stories of Hortense, a black teacher who leaves Jamaica and Queenie, who escapes the meat pies and pig entrails of her parents’ butcher business. In 1948 they both find themselves living in the same clapped-out house in an Earl’s Court blighted by poverty and bomb sites.
Mar 10, 2022 · On stage, playwright Helen Edmundson and director Rufus Norris bring a new charge to that combination of the epic and the intimate as the characters confide in the audience, making us witnesses...
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Sep 24, 2015 · Ted Sod spoke to Helen Edmundson about the process of her writing her stage adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin.
