Polly Teale - Böcker

A haunting drama about adoption, premiered by Shared Experience.They have a beautiful home and a glamorous life. In fact, everything they could wish for. Except the one thing they want most of all. A baby.When a wealthy couple decide to adopt, they know only how much they long for a child. But the baby's troubled mother comes to haunt them and their lives become entangled in a way no one could have imagined.Polly Teale's play Mine was first performed by Shared Experience on a UK tour in 2008.

The true-life drama of the extraordinary bond between two identical twin girls and their struggle to find a voice.Refusing to speak to adults, identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons communicate in their own private language, their only relationship being their intense and turbulent bond with each other.Inspired by Marjorie Wallace's bestselling book The Silent Twins, Polly Teale and Linda Brogan's powerful play is an astonishing and moving portrayal of the secret world of a very special but ultimately destructive alliance between two sisters.Speechless was first performed by Shared Experience and Sherman Theatre Cymru at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2010. It was the winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First Award.

A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.In 1845, Branwell Brontë returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write…Polly Teale's extraordinary play evokes the real and imagined worlds of the Brontës, as their fictional characters come to haunt their creators.Brontë was produced by award-winning theatre company Shared Experience in 2010, in a co-production with the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, directed by Nancy Meckler. Shared Experience are acclaimed the world over for their powerful, visually-charged productions.