Villette

March 1997

Directed by Deborah Paige
Designed by Geraldine Pilgrim
Lighting: Chahine Yavroyan

Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte’s Villette

Company

Derek Hutchinson, Holly de Jong, Martin Ledwith. Poppy Miller, Michael Glenn Murphy, Sonya Walger (+ workshops: Angus Wright, Chris McHallem, Lucy Hall, Myra McFadyen)

Reviews

“Judith Adams does not take a clear narrative approach but instead concentrates on the turmoil, internalising the drama and giving it a dream-like quality that frequently borders on the nightmarish..enthralling.”
John Highfield, The Stage

“this first ambitious and inspired translation of Charlotte Bronte’s underprized novel… The challenging project is tackled with an apparent ease.”
Dawn Jessop, Yorkshire Post

“Wonderful – in design, shape and colour… a sexy piece without the sex… a theatre piece with cinematic qualities and seamless scenes… airy and very modern.”
Lynne Walker, Kaleidoscope – BBC Radio 4

Related Projects

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At its heart, it celebrates the power of childhood imagination to conjure both redemptive art forms and new and better worlds from the implosion of the old.

Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden

2003

A three-year project, commissioned by Stellar Quines Theatre Company and funded by the Scottish Arts Council for performance in Pitlochry Plant Collectors’ Memorial Garden (2003).

South Riding

2019 – 2021

Holtby’s landscape is both the homeland of her childhood and imaginary: a fictional Riding of Yorkshire continuously haunted by ghosts of the dead and disenfranchised.

Creative Workshop Space, West Yorkshire

Established in 2003 by playwright Judith Adams, artist / photographer Simon Warner and Leo Warner, creative director of 59 Productions, Whitestone Arts produces and facilitates creative, cross-media projects. At our base in the West Yorkshire Pennines we develop new collaborative work, supporting emerging artists as well as running and hosting workshops on landscape, art, dance and text. We also have residential and training facilities available for hire in our converted farmhouse buildings.

Judith Adams

Playwright & Dramatist