Alice: An Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Oberon Modern Plays)

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Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here, 2005

Wade presents each surreal encounter as a manifestation of the heroine's trauma – the Mad Hatter's tea party becomes a grotesque travesty of the funeral wake introduced at the beginning. But the episodic nature of the story means that certain scenes are inevitably more engaging than others. The scatological repartee of Oliver Birch and John Biddle's Tweedledum and Tweedledee is enthusiastically embraced by younger members of the audience, and composer David Shrubsole's setting of the Lobster Quadrille is a delight. Brian Cox and Bill Paterson return to Lyceum for 50th anniversary season". list.co.uk. The List. 14 April 2015 . Retrieved 19 April 2015. Her next play, Tipping The Velvet, an adaptation of Sarah Walters' novel, premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in September 2015 before transferring to the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. In 2018, Wade's Home, I'm Darling opened at Theatr Clwyd in July, before transferring to the National Theatre. Wade's adaptation of Jane Austen's unfinished story, The Watsons, premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in November of the same year.Wade, Laura. "Oberon Books – The UK's most exciting independent publisher". Oberonbooks.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 26 November 2016. American premiere, produced by Luna Theater Company at Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, January 2010 de Semlyen, Phil (13 May 2014). "New Trailer For The Riot Club". Empire. Bauer Consumer Media . Retrieved 14 May 2014. Thorpe, Vanessa (7 September 2014). "Laura Wade: her play Posh put a spotlight on the spoilt". The Guardian. UK . Retrieved 30 June 2015.

From 2007 to 2011, Wade lived with actor Samuel West, [21] son of actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales. [22] [23] After a two-year split, Wade and West reunited, and now have two daughters, born in 2014 and 2017. [24] Plays [ edit ] Published [ edit ] We have two girls, and we think a lot about how we raise them as girls, what role models are available to them, what stories, and where they can see themselves in art. With that increased awareness it feels important to create work that isn’t exploitative, that tells positive stories, and to write about things that matter. And it's certainly an interesting show which definitely becomes curiouser and curiouser. I suspect also funnier and funnier as the cast relax. The play is not suitable for 5 year olds, but would be of considerable interest to thoughtful 12 year olds, particularly if they've read the book. On 25 August 2022 it was announced that Laura Wade would be one of the writers and executive producers of the new Disney+ series Rivals, based on the novel by Jilly Cooper. [20] Personal life [ edit ]Tribes have always been interesting to me, and the vintage tribe – people who feel they are born in a time they don’t belong in – seemed like a really good canvas to talk about lots of issues around marriage and domesticity. The Criterion is always generous in its support for young theatre practitioners and to the community generally, and in devoting their Christmas production to a platform for the next generation did them and everyone else a good turn. Much may come out of this production, much that we cannot predict. Forwith imagination there is always hope, as the audience were clearly aware, as they responded with an enthusiasm that matched that on stage. American premiere, produced by Luna Theater Company at Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, October 2007

Theatre review: Breathing Corpses at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs". Britishtheatreguide.info . Retrieved 26 November 2016. Did having your own children while writing it influence the plot or the message? During the six years we were developing the show, Tamara [Harvey, the director], Katherine [Parkinson, who plays the lead role] and I had two children each, but we never ended up giving the couple in the play children because it felt like a purer decision for them to live the 50s if they didn’t have them. The idea of being a stay-at-home mum seemed more socially acceptable than a woman leaving her job to be a housewife and look after her husband. Snow, Georgia (31 October 2014). "Posh leads Nottingham Playhouse's spring 2015 season". The Stage. Nottingham . Retrieved 31 October 2014.

And it worked. In 2005, when she was still only 27, her first and second plays ran simultaneously in London: her debut, Colder Than Here, at the Soho theatre, and her second, Breathing Corpses, at the Royal Court. They won her a Critics' Circle award for most promising playwright and an Olivier award nomination.

The script starts slowly in the sombre setting of a funeral, but as soon as Alice enters Wonderland all hell breaks loose. It’s a laugh a minute but gives you lots to think about both in terms of the play and life in general. Alice was side-splittingly funny as well as chokingly touching, and achieved a delicate balance between surreal humour and realist expression with some outstanding comic performances. The four other actors, Adam Elliott, Dean Lamb, Suzy Nutt and Reece Miller, take on all the other thirty roles and display an impressive ability to switch character and costume in an instant – some seriously talented young people here. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are a special treat. Alice sets out on an inward journey, on which she encounters the familiar figures from Dodgson's story, who provide experiences and proffer advice about how to cope with the ups and downs of life. She eventually emerges, more capable of dealing with her loss, and ready to re-enter the real world. In a final encounter, the White Rabbit summarises the advice that she's been given on the way, and helps Alice to reflect on her 'learning experience'. So, the theme of this version, which starts with a funeral, is teenage bereavement and how to deal with it.

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Wade was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire. She grew up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, where her father worked for a computer company. [1] After completing her secondary education at Lady Manners School in Bakewell, Derbyshire, she studied drama at Bristol University and was later a member of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Programme. Laura Wade is an English playwright. She is the recipient of the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright (2005) for Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here. Cinema audiences may wonder whether a new character in Wade's screenplay – a state school undergraduate from Huddersfield called Lauren Small – is intended to represent the author herself. Initially no more than love interest, her later mistreatment makes the class conflict all too tangible. Wade's first play as an A-level student also featured a character close to her own experience. Limbo was staged in a studio at the prestigious Crucible theatre and was all about "a teenage girl in Sheffield going through extremely mild emotional difficulties", Wade once recalled. "I'm very good at research," she added.