Guest blog: experiments in writing and performance
In this guest blog, playwright Emma Adams tells AYT about performing her own work for the first time and explains how being dyslexic has made her a pragmati...
Emma Adams
Emma Adams
Emma’s plays straddle a fantastical spectrum between political satire for adults and adventure comedy for children. She has written two national touring plays for Red Ladder (Forgotten Things, shortlisted for the 2009 Meyer-Whitworth Award and Ugly, published by Oberon 2010). Emma also writes site-specific plays, her most recent, Northern Big Board, was performed in a Bradford swimming pool. 2012 collaborators include: Slung Low, Chol, Ovalhouse, The Nightingale, Look Left Look Right and West Yorkshire Playhouse. She’s presently attending a Royal Court invitation group and starts her run of Freakoid a dark, queer-future, comedic one-woman show at Ovalhouse 19 Feb 2013.