Shelagh Stephenson
Shelagh Stephenson is a British playwright.
Background and education
Stephenson was born in Northumberland and read drama at Manchester University.
Career
Plays
Stephenson's stage plays include The Memory of Water (1997), An Experiment with an Air Pump, Ancient Lights, Five Kinds of Silence (radio play 1996; stage play 2000), Mappa Mundi (2002) and The Long Road (2008) which was written in collaboration with the UK-based charity, The Forgiveness Project,[1] to critical acclaim.[2][3]
Her plays frequently deal with new advances in science, such as the concept in the title of her first stage play, and including commentary on possibly pseudoscientific fads like urine therapy. Methuen Publishing Ltd published a collected edition of all four of these Stephenson plays in 2003.
An Experiment with an Air Pump was revived in 2009 at Hampstead Theatre, where the original production premiered in 1998; the play has been since revived at the Universities of San Diego and New Orleans, the English Theatre Berlin, the University of Waterloo, and the Giant Olive Theatre Company, in London.
Radio
Her plays for BBC Radio include Darling Peidi 1993; Five Kinds of Silence 1996 which was awarded the Writers Guild Award for Best Original Drama; Life is a Dream 2004; Nemesis 2005; The People’s Princess 2008. Shelagh was a scriptwriter on BBC Radio 4's drama series Citizens.
Film
The Memory of Water was made into a film called Before You Go in 2002 starring Julie Walters and Tom Wilkinson and directed by Lewis Gilbert.
References
- ↑ "The Forgiveness Project - events".
- ↑ "The Long Road; The Guardian". theguardian.com. 26 May 2008.
- ↑ "The Long Road, Soho Theatre, London". Financial Times. 20 May 2008.