Foreign Productions
   

Foreign & UK productions performed/scheduled since 1991:

  The Mistress: Rome (World Premiere 1991)
Chicken Soup With Barley: Buenos Aires (1992),
The Kitchen: Tokyo, October (1994) (6th production);
The Kitchen: Rotterdam & Antwerp (1994)
The Kitchen: Minneapolis (1997, 2nd production)
The Kitchen: Grenoble.
The Trilogy: 'Chicken Soup with Barley', 'Roots', 'I'm Talking About Jerusalem' : Paris, (May/November 1994, January/March 1996)
The Four Seasons: Istanbul, (May 1995)
Letter To A Daughter: Seoul (1992)
Letter To A Daughter: Italy (toured) (1993/94)
Letter To A Daughter: Sweden (four productions)
Letter To A Daughter: Norway (TV)
The Four Seasons: Tokyo (1997 & 2000)
The Four Seasons: Athens (2001)
Letter To A Daughter: Haugesund Teatre, Norway. (1997)
Letter To A Daughter: Spain (national tour) (1997)
Letter To A Daughter: Copenhagen (1998)
Letter To A Daughter: The Edinburgh Festival (1998)
Letter To A Daughter: Budapest (2000)
Letter To A Daughter: Bruxelles
Letter To A Daughter: Lisbon (1998)
Annie Wobbler: Copenhagen & Aarhus (1994)
Annie Wobbler: Ankara and Istanbul (1994/95 and 97/98/99)
Annie Wobbler: Budapest
Annie Wobbler: Palermo & Rome (2000) Siena (2001)
Four Portraits - of mothers: Valencia, Madrid,
Four Portraits - of Mothers: Rome
Four Portraits - of Mothers: Bristol (2001)
Yardsale (with 2 Portraits of Mothers): Johannesburg, Wroclaw. Anchorage (2001).
Break, My Heart (World Premiere) & The Mistress (British Premiere): The Sherman Theatre, Cardiff (June 1997) and HTV later that year.
Break, My Heart: Polverigi Festival, Italy (1998), Rome (1999).
Break, My Heart: Lisbon (2000).
The Mistress: Mexico (2001)
Love Letters on Blue Paper: Istanbul (1995)
Love Letters On Blue Paper: Uruguay (1995)
Roots: Norway (opened early 1996),
Roots: Sweden (1997)
Roots: UK tour (1998)
Wild Spring: Tokyo (1994)
Wild Spring: Prague (1998 - 2002)
Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon & Yardsale: Lisbon (1999),
Whatever Happened To Betty Lemon, Polish theatre & TV (1998 & 2000)
Whatever Happened To Betty Lemon & Break, My Heart (double bill): Stockholm.
Shylock: Yiddish Theatre, Bucharest (September 2000)
Chicken Soup With Barley: RAI Educatiional TV. Italy. (2000)

The Old Ones: Italy (Radio, 1997)
Their Very Own and Golden City: Osaka (2000)
The Kitchen - musical: Tokyo and Japanese tour (2000)
Barabbas: a 15 minute monologue for BBCTV. (Easter 2000)
Shylock: Turkey (2001).
Denial: Germany (Mainz) (2001)
Chips With Everything: Roumania - Targa-Mura & Bucharest (2000-2003)
Four Portraits - of Mothers: Japan. (2002)
Groupie: Italy (2002-2004)
Whatever Happened To Betty Lemon: Costa Rica. (2002)
The Kitchen: Italy. (2002)
The Kitchen: (Amateur. Tower Theatre) (2002)
The Four Seasons: Theatre Clwyd (2002);
The Kitchen: Courtyard, London (2002)
The Kitchen: Turkey. (2002)
The Four Seasons & Break, My Heart: The Blue Elephant Theatre, London (2003)
Roots: Théâtre Le Poche, Geneva (2004)
Whatever Happened To Betty Lemon: Radio Prague (2003/06)
Four Portraits - of Mothers: Bridewell Theatre, London. (2003)
Four Portraits – of Mothers: Italy. Casa Della Gioventu, Florence. (2003)
Four Portraits - of Mothers: Japan (2003)
The Trilogy – amateur, an adaptation by Guy Roupert for Université Paris 7, Amphithéâtre 24, 2 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris. (June 2002)
The Kitchen: Gothenburg (2002).
The Kitchen: Paris (2003)
Whatever Happened To Betty Lemon: Mexico (2003)
Denial: Paris, France, (2004)

The Kitchen: Amateur, Barcelona, Spain (2004)

The Trilogy (as one play, based on filmscript): Hellisborg (2004/5)

Love Letters On Blue Paper: (Amateur, Claire College Cambridge) (Oct. 2003)

Groupie: Japan (Chiginkai) (bought 2003 for production 2005)

The Kitchen: (Amateur, Central School of Drama). (2003)

Groupie: Hungarian Radio (Hofra Agency) (Requested. Nov 2003. Transmitted on Bartók Radio 21st March and 21 May 2005 under title "Rajongó")

Roots: Alsace semi-professional theatre, director Joseph Schmittbiel (2004)

Caritas: Application being made to Scottish Arts Council for a production and tour by the Skeklers Theatre Company in Lerwick, Shetland, directed by Grace Barnes. (2005)

Groupie. Danish Radio. Transmitted January 2004. Translated by Emmet Feigenberg. Directed by Vibeke Bjelke.

Chicken Soup With Barley. Nottingham Playhouse. Scheduled for opening March 28th 2005 season. In fact opened 12 April 2005.

The Kitchen. The National Theatre of France in Lyon for November 16 2004, a touring season.

Four Portraits - of Mothers & Yardsale. Mic theatre in Bucharest for at least a year beginning April 2004.

Letter To Myself
. Play written for 13 year old Isabel Rabey. World Premiere 27th May 2004 at Aberystwyth University Studio theatre. And Hay Festival 30th May as part of ‘Wesker Reads Wesker’. It’s about the daughter from ‘Letter to a Daughter’.

Longitude. Planned for 2005 as part of ‘SEABRITAIN 2005’, to open at the Greenwich Theatre and then tour eight seaport towns before, hopefully, the West End. Bill Alexander directing, Bill Dudley designing. Later. Six months later Alexander changes mind. Fiona Laird on board instead.

Roots. Turkey.

The Kitchen – Italian film producer, Massimo Chiesa, bought the film rights. Met in London, 14th June, with him and director, Valerio Binasco, to discuss project. They want to start shooting March 2005. Contract for purchase of film rights signed in October 2004. Also contract for author to write film script.

Denial – Stockholm. Planned for the fall of 2004 by small theatre called The Playhouse.

The Four Seasons. Opened in Jaunuary 2004 in Diyarbakir in Turkey, followed by a tour and then destined for Ankara & Istanbul.

Annie Wobbler. Dublin. AC Productions. For the autumn 2004 fringe festival. Two appearances in London. Aimed at Edinburgh 2005.

Chicken Soup With Barley. Valencia. Due to open November 2004 ‘Teatre Rialto’ with the company “Teatres de la Generalitat”. But Nuria Espert wrote to me 29 Sept. 004 saying “The Teatro Principal is a marvellous theatre, the name of the director is Juan Vi.”

Denial. Arts World TV. Transmission of filmed version of Bristol Old Vic’s production. June 6th. 2004.

Letter to a Daughter. The company now touring Groupie, Gli Ipocriti, want to buy the rights for a new production with new music and singer.

Denial. Request to read from Teatre de Jean Duceppe, Montreal for season 2005/2006

The Kitchen. Request from The Metropolitan Theatre in Seoul, Korea for rights to be performed in the fall of 2004.

Groupie. Purchase of rights by German agent July 2004.

Roots. Request from Musetta Joyce to mount Irish adaptation for production in Granary Theatre Cork, and possible tour. Received 4 July 2004.
The Kitchen. Enquiry received 13 July 2004 for Japanese stage rights from The Sakai Agency Inc. Tokyo on behalf of Tokyu Bunkamura, Theatre Cocoon for a production in Spring, 2005 with direction by Yukio Ninagawa for about 20 to 25 performances.

Roots. Prescribed for 2000 students in the MA I class in Dept of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. See letter from Manju Jaidka, Professor and Chair of Dept. of English dated 13 July 2004.

The Kitchen. Request from HOFRA agency in Budapest for rights to 10/15 performances in the Jászai Mari Theatre in Tatabánya, 30 km from Budapest. To open 8th October 2004 into 2005.

The Kitchen. Request received 26 August 2004 from “G.A. PETCULESCU” Theatre in Resita, ROMANIA, to open in the autumn of 2004.
The Four Seasons. Request received 25 August from Roberto Aguirre, artistic director of Teatro de Repertorio, Bueons Aires, Argentina for a production sometime in 2005. Offer confirmed 1st December. Contract agreed 24 Dec. 04
for an opening in May 2005.

Honey. Contract signed with Simon and Schuster 17 September for first novel. MS to be submitted by 1st April 2005. Manuscript submitted in two parts 25th and 28th February 2005. Accepted. Publication date set for September 5th 2005. Then changed to September 19th.
Men Die Women Survive. Request received 21 September from SOPE (Greek Society of Authors) for production during this winter season (November 2004 to May 2005), in Athens, at the DIACHRONICO theatre (140 seats). Theatre newly built for actress, Maria Vidali, by her husband. To be translated by Christina Babou-Purgerelli

The Kitchen: Email received 28th May about a project conceived by El¿bieta Czerwiñska of Poland to encompass realization of this play in three countries (Great Britain, Germany and Poland). It is to be followed by workshops aiming at mixing the cast, which would give three international productions in three languages that could be shown in various EU countries. Planned to be ready for the next edition of 'Culture 2000' in 2005. More news to follow.

The Kitchen: Japan. Amateur. Nihon University College of Arts (Engeki Course). Four performances. 12th to 14th November 2004..

Groupie: Request to read from Teatre de Jean Duceppe, Montreal for season 2005/2006

Denial. Phone call (9 November) from Jacques Rosner who directed play in Paris. Safy Nebbou is a young French film director with one film to his credit (Le Cou de la Girafe, with Sandrine Bonnaire and Claude Rich) who saw Jacque’s production, loved the play, and wants to make a film of it with Gina Rowlands. I will hear from him. His agent Eva Hornung of mcr agence littéraire subsequently made contact in January 2005 but nothing since.
The Four Seasons. Request via Sociedade Brasileira de Autores from Miguel Fernando Soares Hernanez for the rights to translate and stage the play for the city of Sao Paulo from 1 May 2005 to 30 May 2005.

Chips With Everything. Amateur. St Edwards School, Oxford. Feb 9/10 2005. Nick Quarterly. (01865319231).CANCELLED.

The Four Seasons: Via Estonian Drama Agency for a performance in summer of 2005 at the Ugala Theatre (Artistic Director Peeter Tammearu) in Viljandi, Estonia. To be directed by Mrs Kaarin Raid. God knows what she’ll do to it!

Annie Wobbler. Request via SACD from Arnaud Chulliat of Compagnie Cadences in Paris for the rights from September 2005 to June 2007 to be performed by Sibel Chulliat who is both an actress and director and who created the company in March of 2004.

The Kitchen. Spain. Request via SGAE for exclusive Spanish and Catalan rights for two years for TEATRO DE LA ABADÍA in Madrid to be directed by José Luis Gómez. To open around March 2006. CANCELLED. Informed by SGAE 25th May 2005
Wild Spring, Lady Othello, Longitude – requested for reading by Tish Francis, artistic director of the Oxford Playhouse. 21 March 2005.

Much Ado About Nothing. Invitation 17 March from ‘Shakespeare Festival for schools’ to abridge this Shakespeare play down to 30 minutes. Leon Garfield had done many of them. Last year ‘The Merchant of Venice’ was abridged by Tom Stoppard for performance by schools this year.

La Cuisine. Request from SACD (8 April2005) on behalf of Théâtre le Phenis – scène nationale de Valenciennes (69 – Nord) for 16 performances from 4 July until 21 October 2005 in France and Belgium.

Love Letters on Blue Paper. Request received via David Higham 20 April 2006 from Portugues Society of Authors for non-exclusive rights for Porto Teatro - Sociedade Cooperativa de Actores to perform this play opening 5th May 2005. Short notice! They also want rights for only seven months. Odd! Later: Advance of £800 offered.

Yardsale.  Amateur lunch time performance at The Maddermarket, Norwich.  For Nov/Dec 2005, to be performed by Judi Petravich..

The Kitchen:  Part of ‘English Week’ on Hungarian Radio.

Love Letters on Blue Paper:  Amateur.  Talisman Theatre, Kenilworth.  Six performances November 13 to 18th inclusive, 2006.

The Kitchen – via SACD – 20 amateur productions by Théâtre de la Gaterie  de Saint  Grégoire 1 Jan to 30 June 2006.

Roots.  12 September 2005 – a request via Nicky Lund from BBC Radio 4 to mount production of this play in 2006.

Love Letters on Blue Paper.  Request from Arthur Storch who directed world premier in Syracuse in 1977 to direct it again for off Broadway.  His original production ignored my stage direction that the letters should be Voice Over.  He made the actress deliver them live.  He knew of my displeasure but was now asking to be allowed to direct it again as live and not Voice Over.  I’ve said no.  Suggested he consider Lady Othello or The Four Seasons.  He asked for scripts. Neither interested him.  He pursued.  Relented and agreed he could do it without Voice Over. He’s not been able to set it up.

Roots.  Request 30 September 2005 from Stephen Unwin of the English Touring Theatre for availability for grand tour in 2007.  Nothing concrete, just wanting to see if rights were available.  Project abandoned because couldn’t find right ‘star’.

Anything:  Invitation (18 October 2005) to direct any of my plays in Timisoara National Theatre, Romania.  Replied I’m too old to travel so far away. They’ve said I can nominate any director I like, and asked would I lend my name as a patron.  Of course.

Letter to a Daughter.  Email – 25th October - from Italian agent saying that Massimo Chiesa, the Italian producer who bought the film rights of The Kitchen, is interested in buying the stage rights of Letter for the actress/singer, Claudia Gerini.  To be confirmed.

BBC Radio Drama:  Invitation (26 October 2005) from Allison Hindell, new head of Radio Drama to meet with her and Mark Damazer, Controller of BBC Radio 4 to discuss their future plans for furthering ‘our relationships with writers whose work has contributed valuably to the genre in the past’.  No meeting ever transpired!

The Four Seasons:  Request dated 23rd November from Michael Berryman and Cindy Graves, two actors, interested in a tour of small venues with either this or GROUPIE – which is not free.  Tour to be organised by a local rep with experience of touring.  In 2006.  Not pursued.

Letter to a Daughter and Letter to Myself:  Czech Republic.  Request for scripts to be translated as part of University project with hopes of setting up a production.  Came from Dilia agency 24 November.  Nothing transpired.

The Kitchen:  E 15 Acting School request amateur rights for five performances in February 2006.  Later:  changed to ‘Their Very Own and Golden City’.  See below.

Four Portraits & The Mistress:  Request for rights from Tamara Lee, an actress in South Australia, who wants to make a submission to the Bakehouse Theatre in Adelaide.  No other details as yet.

Henry V:  at a meeting (2 December 2005)  in Victoria Station with Chris Grace of the ‘Shakespeare for Schools’ set up agreed to deliver a 45 minute version of Shakespeare’s Henry V to be performed in tandem with Much Ado About Nothing at The Royal Court as part of the 50th anniversary of The National Youth Theatre. Later:  This idea has been abandoned.  They will be performed elsewhere.  To be announced.  (See later).

The Kitchen:  Email request from a S. Sininsky in Bulgaria for the rights to perform play in Sofia.  Told him he must give us more information. Nothing forthcoming.

Love Letters on Blue Paper:  Enquiry via SACD for exclusive rights for one year - from 1st September 2006 to 1st September 2007.  A Mr Dardo Dozo for "Camarin de las musas") in Buenos Aires, Argentine in the Spanish translation of Mr Roberto d'Amico (Mexico), with a music of German Fredes.  Music?  What music?  Replied asking for request to come direct to us from Argentinian Society of Authors.  Later:  asked for an advance of £1000.  Replied not able to raise this amount.  Await counter offer.  Production abandoned.

The Four Seasons:  Request received 13th January 2006 from Eric Robertson of  West Lothian.  Replied asking for more details. Nothing transpired.

When God Wanted a Son:  The company Porto Teatro - Sociedade Cooperativa de Actores request via Portuguese authors agency for permission to stage the above-mentioned work.  Received 17 January 2006.  Opened July 2006.

La Cuisine.  Request for rights via SACD in Belgium for a production by Le Téâtre en Liberté in Bruxelles under the direction of Mr Daniel Scahaise.  Scheduled for sometime between 1st January and 31 May 2007.  Later: Contract agreed.

Their Very Own and Golden City.  Performed in The Corbett Theatre of E15 acting school.  22 to 25 of February 2006.  Directed by John Gillet.

Their Very Own and Golden City.  27th January 2006.  Rehearsed reading as part of Royal Court’s celebration of 50 years.  Directed by Fiona Laird.  Fifty plays were given readings.

Amazed & Surprised:  Fifteen minute play commissioned by Radio 3 and The Royal Court as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations.  Four other plays by Wole Soyinka, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Joe Penhall, and Laura Wade.  Transmitted live from the main stage of The Royal Court.  Directed by Fiona Laird.  2 April 2006.

Much Ado & Henry V:  Two 45 minute abridgements to be performed by The National Youth Theatre at The Hackney Empire for week commencing 17th September 2006.  To be directed by Paul Roseby, artistic director of NYT.

Love Letters on Blue Paper:  Ensemble Theatre, Porto, Portugal 2006.  The same company produced ‘When God Wanted a Son’.

The Four Seasons.  Request from young director, James Copp, for UK rights to perform in Arcola Theatre 27 February to 23 March 2007, and possibly on tour.  Contract signed mid-November 2006. Tour didn’t take place.

The Four Seasons.  Not a request but a piece of information from ELÝF NUTKU who is a State Actress with her own theatre informing that she’s mounting a production on 15 January 2007!!  It turned out to be one performance for a college!

Letter to a Daughter:  Request for the rights from Marcia Abujamra for a production in Sao Paolo in August 2007.  Contract agreed and signed.  Finally scheduled to open in September and run for 5 weeks at SESC Paulista.  Later:  Scheduled to open on the 15th September.  Singer Nelli Sampaio, composer is Daniel Maia.

Caritas.  The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is interested in applying
for the rights.  The Odyssey Theatre is an award-winning  99 seat Equity-waiver theatre in Los Angeles, that produces national and international works that are innovative and provocative.  The play would run for a minimum of seven weeks,
starting August 2007. Didn’t happen.

Longitude.  David Higham received a request (12 February 2007) from Northern Broadsides (based in Halifax) as to the availability of the rights to this play in which ‘We are interested with a view to touring the play in the UK at a future date.’  Barrie Rutter is the artistic director ‘who likes it very much’.  Nothing definite.  Didn’t happen.

Roots:  David Higham received request 1st March 2007 from Manchester Royal Exchange for the exclusive rights; to be performed for four and a half weeks from 30th January to 1st March 2008.  Directed by Jo Coombes. Contract signed, advance paid.

The Mistress  Request 28 April 2007 from Martha Lott, Artistic Director, Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh.  S. Australia, for the rights to perform this play at the Edinburgh Festival, to be directed by Guy Masterson.  Also the exclusive Australasian rights for two years to begin in her Adelaide theatre.  Opening Assembly Wildman Room on 2nd August till 27th.  Subsequently dropped idea to buy Australasian rights.

The Rocking Horse:  1st April, request (via David Hitchinson, director of Radio production of Shylock) from Drama Department of World Service Radio for a commissioned 60 minute play as part of their 75th Anniversary celebrations, to coincide with AW’s 75th birthday year, too!  Later extended to 75 minute play. Transmission 1st & 2nd December 2007.  Music by Benjamin Till.  Singer Nathan Taylor. Cast: Prunella Scales, Clive Swift, Sheila Steafel, Amanda Root, Alex Lanipekun.

Grief.  One Woman Opera, music Shigeaki Saegusa, one performance 8th April 2008, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, singer Michiè Nakamaru.  AW invited to direct it.

Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon.  Call today (3 May 2007) from Portuguese Society of Authors who said, as last time (over ‘When God Wanted a Son’) that they can’t get through to me on email.  A group want to perform this play and take it on tour.  She talked about them using songs when Betty phones her daughter!!!  I told her they could not have the rights if they wanted to change anything.  She’s posting a letter to me.  Never came.

The Kitchen.  Request from Hungarian Agency, Hofra (first email dated 10th June 2007 didn’t arrive, 2nd one sent 11th) for a production by  Gardonyi Geza Theater in Eger – about 120 miles N.E. of Budapest.  To open 14 March 2008

The Kitchen.    Request from Portuguese Soc. Authors for a production by Teatro Experimental de Cascais – ACTECAS scheduled for Novembro 2007.

Sullied Hand.  Request 19 June 2007 from Sue Tickner of Tweed Theatre, Peebles for rights to perform this play.  Not sure if they’re amateur or professionals.  Never followed up by them.

Roots.  Request 11 Sept 2007 from Watermill Theatre for rights to perform play in 2008.  Not followed up as of 27 Feb 2008

Denial planned for March 2009 by LaCompagnie Jean Duceppe in Montreal. Agent is Earl Graham.  Contract signed and advance paid 7 December 2007.

Four Portraits - of mothers, Mr. Patiño of Trotea in Madrid, translated by Juan V. Martínez Luciano under the title "MADRES".  Madrid 2008.

The Kitchen.  Guildford School of Drama.  Five performance February 2008.  Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, studio.

Chips With Everything.  Central School of Speech and Drama.  Six performances at Embassy Theatre, studio.  February 2008.

The Kitchen.  Translation and adaptation: JORGE HACKER.  Company: FUNDACION TEATRO UNIVERSITARIO, in Tukuman, northern province of Argentine..  Director: RICARDO SALIM  Opening June 7th 2008.

Roots:  rights applied for by Argentine student director who wants to direct it for her passing out course in an ‘off’ studio in Buenos Aires towards end of year 2008.

Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon.  Portugal. Not sure what became of that.

The Mistress.  Scheduled for her theatre in Adelaide by Martha Lott who will also perform the role from 8th to 26th July 2008 for 19 performances.

The Kitchen:  National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney NSW
25 September - 30 September 2008

The Kitchen:  To open in Marche, Ancona, Italy 8th October 2008 directed by Massimo Chiesa for short tour.  Later asked for extension of rights for winter 2009.

The Kitchen:  Planned for Rome, Monaci’s Eliseo Theatre, to be directed by Valerio Binasco in the season 2010-2011.  LATER: abandoned because Eliseo theatre couldn’t afford such a major production.  Binasco moved to Teatro Regionale Alessandrino in Alessandria, near Liguria the region where Binasco comes from.

Love Letters on Blue Paper:  Rights requested (July 2008) by Michael Smoker for a professional tour to village halls through Somerset, Devon and Wiltshire early next year (2009)  and then go on to the Edinburgh Fringe that August.  He would direct.
 
The Kitchen a  request for the Spanish rights of THE  KITCHEN for production in Argentina and Uruguay from Federico  Gonzalez del Pino and Fernando Masllorens for The San Martin Theatre (the  National theatre of Buenos Aires) for 2009 season - an 18 months  exclusive contract.  Messrs Gonzalez del Pino and Masllorens would be the translators.

Also

Roots:  F. Gonzalez del Pino and F. Masllorens are  also interested in
Spanish rights for Tsu Productions (Who's Afraid of Virgina  Woolf, Diary of Anne
Frank amongst others) at the Regina Theatre of Buenos Aires  for their 2009
season.

Letter to Myself.  Portugal.  Manuel Cintra requests – by phone 16 July 2008 - contract for this play for his 12 year old daughter, Maria, in Lisbon. 

Letter to a Daughter.  Portugal.  Manuel Cintra had additional idea to perform both plays in one evening with leading Portuguese actress Beatriz Batarda playing the lead.  Problem is she’s not normally a singer!

Four Portraits:  Rights requested 7 August 2008 by The Rover Rep Theatre,
an English-language, professional pub theatre in the heart of Hamburg,
German.  To open their upcoming season. This is their fifth anniversary season and would pen in October, for nine performances.  Theatre seats 45.  Said rights were free but suggested they add YARDSALE to make it a fuller evening.  Asked for £85 per performance.

The Kitchen, amateur.  Request via Almo for rights on behalf of St Jozef Klein Seminarie in the city of Sint Niklaas, Belgium for four performances 16-17-30-31 January 2009.

Annie Wobbler.  Elisabetta Pozzi, who performed the play previously in Italy, requests rights for two seasons.  She plans to revive it in2009. Request received from Anna Ashton 10 September 2008.

Yardsale.  12 September 2008 arrived email from Italy from Giuseppe Vincenzi, an italian composer who last year, together with Stefania De Cola, an italian theatrical actress, made ‘a short concept album, named "Microhistoire", freely taken from your "Yardsale", that in italian is "Asta in cortile". They want to send me cd. Asked Anna to look into it.

The Four Seasons: Request received 19 September 2008 from Elzemann Neves, São Paulo, Brasil for the rights.  Replied asking who they are and for when.  He is a professor who wants to submit the play to the *Festival da Cultura Inglesa*.
*Cultura Inglesa *is a large network of English language schools, which,
together with the British Council, promotes and sponsors the largest English
Language and Culture festival in Brazil. The *Festival *will select three plays, written by British playwrights, to be staged in 2009. The play will be starred by well-known Brazilian theatre actors, however the prize only totals R$ 30 thousand (approximately 8 000 pounds), thus the play will fall into the 'low-budget' category.
Despite the low budget, the professionals involved have already accepted to
star in the play for a small amount, due to the great interest in your text.
The results will be announced in December 2008, and if you are among the
winners, the play is to be staged in May 2009. It will be played four times
during the *Festival da Cultura Inglesa*. One of the three finalists will be
on throughout the year in one of the *Cultura Inglesa* theaters.

The Four Seasons:  Phone call (23 September 2008) from Susana Alexander in Mexico who mounted the play in the late 90s in Mexico City, one of the best productions I have ever seen.  She wants to mount it again in 2009, as producer and director with other actors. Advance paid.

Four Portraits:  Email today (21 Oct 2008) from a freelance director, Morna Burdon, enquiring about the availability of the rights.  Suggested they consider including YARDSALE to make it Portraits – Meres.

Four Portraits.  Sabrina Venezia actor/ translator/producer living and working in Rome, Italy requests rights (email 13 November 2008) to perform for three days at an annual festival of contemporary drama called LET (Liberi Esperimenti 
Teatrali) at Teatro Cometa Off in Testaccio, Rome (think of Soho Theatre in London as type of venue and audience). 

Blood Libel:  In email dated 25th November 2008 Seamus Steel of Rosemary Drama Group from Belfast wrote to say they have agreed to mount this play for 2009 drama festivals around Northern Ireland.

The Rocking Horse: French Radio. 3 December 2008 call from Keith Gore who’s been chasing French radio; they finally got back to him to say their readers liked the play and they are going to pursue a production.  Later, 19 December email from Keith Gore telling him to go ahead and do the translation.

The Four Seasons: Request for the rights from an (un-named) theatre group in Sao Paulo.  Email via David Higham’s office from Alexandre Tenório dated 11 December 2008.  Wrote for more details.

The Kitchen:  Request (30Jan09) Society of Authors called LITA in Slovakia.  On behalf of a theatre called DIVADLO ANDREJA BAGARA from the town of Nitra. Slovak translation "Kuchyòa" by Ms. Alexandra Ruppeldtová.  (In confusion they asked for the rights of THE KITCHEN MUSICAL.

Letter to a Daughter:  Greece, interest following suggestion by translator Christina Babou-Pourgareli who’d been asked (Jan/Feb 2009)) by actress, Mania Papadimitriou, to suggest a monologue for her.  Papadimitriou ‘liked it very much indeed’ and found a little black box theatre for 75 places.  She wants, in the beginning, to do 20 performances.  The musician will be Platon Andritsakis, the director will be Vassilis Kyritsis and the producer is Vassilis Poulanjas. 

The Kitchen:  Request (4th March) from the Literary Assistant, Jessica Traynor, of Abbey Theatre, Dublin, to read the script.