All Projects

嵐の家 Arashi No Ie / Stormy House

2018 – 2020

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.

Earthsea / Erdsee

2018 & 2022

Le Guin layers her work with themes of self-discovery, relationships, isolation and connection, love and betrayal, violence and redemption. Earthsea has unique characters, glorious geography and the energy of its own songs, sagas and myths.

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.

Raven

Summer 2019

Initial concept and outline narrative scenario for projections on Historic Royal Palaces’ iconic Tower of London.

Drift

2015 / 2016

The story, songs and recitative were inspired by the “true tale” of Betty Mouat, a crofter from Shetland, who spent eight days drifting alone in the North Sea in 1886.

The Baroque Story

2013 – 2020

A multi-media re-working of the Hampton Court Palace visitor introduction to the King’s Baroque Apartments in the reign of William lll and Mary ll.

The Left Hand of Darkness

April 12th & 19th 2015

Dramatisation of the award-winning, ground-breaking and deeply influential novel by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Hampton Court Palace 500: Rewind

April 3rd 2015

A unique commission writing for 59 Production’s project celebrating the 500th anniversary of the construction of Hampton Court Palace.

Lord of the Flies

June 2013

Dramatisation of the novel by William Golding for BBC Radio 4E.

Crossing the Line / The Watershed Project

Available to tour (small venues)

A 35 minute traveling Whitestone Arts multi media performative collaboration with Simon Warner and Stacey Johnstone (voice, Alex Mathie) exploring walking and inspiration.

Buddenbrooks

Broadcast October 2012

Dramatisation of Buddenbrooks, The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann.

Out of Africa

b. April 25th-29th 2011

Dramatisation of the novel by Karen Blixen.

The Hireling

2011

Two-part dramatisation of the novel by L.P.Hartley.

Affiliated Playwright – University of Huddersfield

Affiliated to teach on MA courses Writing for Performance and Ensemble Physical Theatre, Training and Performance within the Department of Theatre, Drama and Performance.

Judith Adams

Playwright & Dramatist