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

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Disney+ Reveals New Original Series "Rivals", an Outrageously Bold Eight-Part Saga Full of Power, Betrayal and Romance, Based on Jilly Cooper's Iconic Novel". 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. Cooke, Rachel (25 November 2007). "Best of the West: Rachel Cooke interviews actor Sam West". The Observer. UK . Retrieved 6 June 2015.

Paton, Maureen (10 December 2011). "Sam West: My family values". The Guardian. UK . Retrieved 30 June 2015. Wade is now an accomplished 36-year-old West End playwright who has written about death, terminal illness and what might have happened to the lead female characters in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale during their 16-year exile from court. Now she is once again defending her assumptions about the upper classes because the film version of Posh, re-titled The Riot Club, opens this month, and Wade has adapted the screenplay. In theatre circles, the award-winning Wade is known for the precision of her writing and you feel her deadly accuracy in every sentence, every phrase, of Posh. Most of the play's action takes place in the private room of a country pub in which the Riot Club's members are meeting for one of their notorious dinners. The object of the evening is trashing: they get trashed and then they trash the room; the smashing of, say, only one chandelier by the end of the night will be considered a poor show. Where did the idea of Home, I’m Darling – about a modern couple choosing to live the lifestyle and revert to the typical gender roles of the 1950s – come from? It's a conceit that pays off well, given that Carroll's heroine is usually defined by her capacity for shrinkage, growth spurts and bouts of tears. Ruby Bentall's Alice is an obstreperous, streetwise kid who responds in a contemporary manner. "It must be a computer game," she decides. "I just need to work out how to get on to the next level."

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. Carroll’s story has always been understood as more than just an imaginative and amusing children’s story, but this rendering takes its serious side to a new level, interpreting Alice’s journey as a psychotherapeutic escape from a very real tragedy. Its a clever way to understand Carroll’s exploration of the human psyche, combining the dark with the ridiculous with finesse, and it stays close enough to Carroll’s much-loved jokes and characters to keep loyal fans happy. Teenagers, in particular, will likely appreciate this version, especially if they happen to be going through a tough time (and which teenager isn’t?).

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.Laura Wade adapted Sarah Waters’ novel Tipping The Velvet for the stage in 2015, a story which tells the story of a Victorian woman who falls in love with a cross-dresser. Admittedly, it doesn’t sound astoundingly relevant, but the themes of acceptance and cultural oppression are certainly applicable to aspects of today’s society. More obviously pertinent is her play Other Hands about a couple that has semi-platonic relationships with other people and both suffer from repetitive strain injuries. The major theme of the play is actually how reliance on technology has desensitised us towards the feelings of others, and how emotional discrepancies have become normalised in modern relationships. The picture it paints is quite bleak, but it certainly makes you think twice about how people relate to each other in the modern world. 4. There is incredible variety in her work Wade adapted the unfinished Jane Austen novel The Watsons into a play, which premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre on 3 November 2018, directed by Samuel West. [17] It had a further run at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 20 September 2019. [18] The West End transfer of The Watsons was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. [19] Does she find writing easy? "Not really. Some parts are agony. I certainly don't wake up and haemorrhage ideas." Posh, with its cast of 14, is her biggest play to date. But it was a less lonely business than usual. "Lyndsey and I worked on it scene by scene; there was no terrible moment when I handed this thing to someone, saying, 'That's my heart and soul on a plate.'" Wade has now tuned up the language of the screenplay. "It's like a musical score," she says. "The script exists as a top line, and then there's an underscore of banter that needs to happen all the time to make it feel like a lively dinner with lots of conversations all around the table rather than people taking turns to speak as they do on stage."