Thérèse Raquin

About EMile Zola

Émile Zola (18401902) was a French writer the most well-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Helen Edmundsons first play Flying was presented at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992 she adapted Tolstoys Anna Karenina for Shared Experience for whom she also adapted The Mill on the Floss in 1994. Both won awards the TMA and the Time Out Awards respectively and both productions were twice revived and extensively toured. Shared Experience also staged her original adaptation of War and Peace at the National Theatre in 1996 and toured her adaptations of Mary Webbs Gone to Earth in 2004 Euripides Orestes in 2006 the new two-part version of War and Peace in 2008 and the original play Mary Shelley in 2012. Her original play The Clearing was first staged at the Bush Theatre in 1993 winning the John Whiting and Time Out Awards Mother Teresa is Dead was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2002 and The Heresy of Love was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the Swan Theatre in 2012. Her adaptation of Jamila Gavins Coram Boy premiered at the National Theatre to critical acclaim in 2005 receiving a Time Out Award. It was subsequently revived in 2006 and produced on Broadway in 2007. She adapted Calderons Life is a Dream for the Donmar Warehouse in 2009 and Arthur Ransomes Swallows and Amazons for the Bristol Old Vic in 2010 which subsequently transferred to the West End before embarking on a national tour in 2012.