Samuel Adamson's plays include:
The Ballad of Hattie and James,
Wife (both Kiln Theatre),
Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios),
All About My Mother (from Almodóvar; Old Vic),
Gabriel (Shakespeare's Globe),
Fish and Company (Soho Theatre/National Youth Theatre),
Southwark Fair (National Theatre),
Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre/Channel 4),
Grace Note (Peter Hall Company/Old Vic),
Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre), Frank & Ferdinand (National Theatre Connections); as well as contributions to
the 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic),
Hoard
(New Vic, Stoke),
A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre),
Decade (Headlong Theatre) and
Urban Scrawl (TheatreVoice/Theatre 503). Adaptations include: Ibsen's
Pillars of the Community and
Mrs Affleck, from Ibsen's
Little Eyolf, (both at the National Theatre)
A Doll's House (Southwark Playhouse); Chekhov's
Uncle Vanya (Leeds Playhouse),
The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company/Riverside Studios) and
Three Sisters (OSC/Whitehall Theatre);
Running Wild, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo (Chichester Festival Theatre/Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Schnitzler's
Professor Bernhardi (Dumbfounded Theatre/Arcola Theatre/Radio 3); Bernhard Studlar's
Vienna Dreaming (National Theatre Studio); a musical based on George MacDonald's
The Light Princess, with Tori Amos (National Theatre); Ostrovsky's
Larisa and the Merchants (Arcola Theatre); and
Jack Maggs, from Peter Carey's novel (State Theatre Company of South Australia). Radio includes:
Tomorrow Week (Radio 3). Film includes
Running for River (Directional Studios/Krug). He was Pearson Writer in Residence at the Bush in 1997-8.
