Gillian Hiscott
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Gillian Hiscott is an author and playwright, born in Plymouth
, Devon
, United Kingdom, in 1959 whose plays have been performed both in London
and at the Edinburgh Festival
. Her work in the theatre has been largely to promote the work of British female writers and she is the only published adaptor of work by Marie Corelli
. Her last two plays were written whilst completing an MA in Playwriting and Script Development at Exeter University and are examples of plays affected by the literary concept known as the stream of consciousness. Her only novel Lady in Chains is WW2 fiction and centres on an era of social history which reflects a changing way of life for the British aristocracy.
Performing in more than one of the author's plays is veteran actress Beryl Nesbitt, LTDB entry who has featured in many film and TV roles. Involved in Vendetta as performers and directors: Christopher Gutmann, Ralph Mondi, Laurie Hagen.
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
, Devon
Devon
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, United Kingdom, in 1959 whose plays have been performed both in London
London
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and at the Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival
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. Her work in the theatre has been largely to promote the work of British female writers and she is the only published adaptor of work by Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli was a British novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G...
. Her last two plays were written whilst completing an MA in Playwriting and Script Development at Exeter University and are examples of plays affected by the literary concept known as the stream of consciousness. Her only novel Lady in Chains is WW2 fiction and centres on an era of social history which reflects a changing way of life for the British aristocracy.
Performing in more than one of the author's plays is veteran actress Beryl Nesbitt, LTDB entry who has featured in many film and TV roles. Involved in Vendetta as performers and directors: Christopher Gutmann, Ralph Mondi, Laurie Hagen.
Published plays
- 1995 Adaptation Emily BronteEmily BrontëEmily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
's Wuthering HeightsWuthering HeightsWuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847. It was her only novel and written between December 1845 and July 1846. It remained unpublished until July 1847 and was not printed until December after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre...
, Cressrelles ISBN 085343 604 5 http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org&q=Gillian+Hiscott&submit=Search - 2007 Adaptation Jane AustenJane AustenJane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
's "Mansfield ParkMansfield ParkMansfield Park may mean:* Mansfield Park by Jane Austen* Mansfield Park , based on the novel, directed by Patricia Rozema, starring Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, and Sheila Gish in 1999...
" Jasper ISBN 978 1 905993 48 2 http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org&q=Gillian+Hiscott&submit=Search Staged at Upstairs at the GatehouseUpstairs at The GatehouseUpstairs at The Gatehouse is a pub theatre in Highgate in the London Borough of Camden.The venue is a refurbished 1895 auditorium, upstairs from the Gatehouse pub, that has served over the years as a music hall, cinema, Masonic lodge, and a jazz and folk music club that once hosted a performance by...
. LTDB entry - 2007 Adaptation Marie CorelliMarie CorelliMarie Corelli was a British novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G...
's "Vendetta", 2006, Jasper ISBN 978 1 905993 49 9 - Staged at the Edinburgh FestivalEdinburgh FestivalThe Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
. - 2009 "The Young Diana" Jasper ISBN 978 1906997 01
- 2009 "Love in Vain in Vain" Jasper ISBN 978 1 906997007
Novel
- 2004 Lady in Chains ISBN 978-0-9546974-0-2
- 2011 Alentejo Magic ISBN: 978-0954697433
Play reviews
- ThreeWeeksThreeWeeksThreeWeeks is a newspaper that covers the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals in May and August respectively.It has covered the Edinburgh Festival since 1996 and the Brighton Festival since 2006.- Education Programme :...
19 May 2006 - The Bath Chronicle 16 May 2006 "Vendetta" at Bath Fringe Festival
- The Bath Chronicle 2 June 2006 page 21 Philip Horton
- MetroMetro (Associated Metro Limited)Metro is a free daily newspaper in the United Kingdom published by Associated Newspapers Ltd . It is available from Monday to Friday each week on many public transport services across the United Kingdom.-History:The paper was launched in London in 1999, and can now be found in 14 UK urban centres...
August 2006 - ThreeWeeksThreeWeeksThreeWeeks is a newspaper that covers the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals in May and August respectively.It has covered the Edinburgh Festival since 1996 and the Brighton Festival since 2006.- Education Programme :...
8 August 2006 - The ScotsmanThe ScotsmanThe Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
16 August 2006 Andrea Mullaney Edition : Festival Page number: 14 - The Stage 18 August 2006
- MetroMetro (Associated Metro Limited)Metro is a free daily newspaper in the United Kingdom published by Associated Newspapers Ltd . It is available from Monday to Friday each week on many public transport services across the United Kingdom.-History:The paper was launched in London in 1999, and can now be found in 14 UK urban centres...
July 17, 2007 - Time Out London July 23, 2007
- Camden New Journal 19 July 2007
- Ham & High 19 July 2007 Theatre page X11 Aline Waites
Articles on
- Western Evening Herald 29 May 2006 Page 19 - article by Hannah Wood
- Western Evening Herald 7 March 2009 - article by Martin Freeman
- The Voice of Plymouth Edition Page 6 http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Head-deck/article-751594-detail/article.html