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BUMPS
rewritten for audio form by Sheila Dewey
Retracing the extraordinary garden partnership of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens, Bumps is an audio play rewritten by Sheila Dewey. Available from 18 November 2011.
- Audio CD Play - 80 minutes
- Based on the original theatre production and re-written for audio format © Sheila Dewey 2011
- All profits will go towards garden events for disabled people at the Chelsea Fringe
- A gardens and people production
- Buy BUMPS [Will be posted first class from 18 November 2011]
About BUMPS
A chance meeting at a tea party in Surrey in 1889 lead to one of the most affectionate, long-lasting, extraordinary garden partnerships of the 20th century.
Gertrude Jekyll, already a successful plantswoman, interior designer, painter, silversmith and embroiderer in her own right, met a young man, Edwin Lutyens, who had just left the office of architect Ernest George after one year to start his own practise. He was all of 19 years old. Miss Jekyll, twenty-five years his senior, not only commissioned her own house from him but introduced him to clients. She was to become his mentor, his partner and his lifelong friend.
BUMPS was his affectionate, special name for her. Even when Lutyens spread his wings as an architect, designing all over the world, he still commissioned planting plans from her, including those for the War Graves after World War I.
The action of the play takes place between 1889 and 1917. The play was given its premiere reading at the Garden Museum in 2001, and given then a production at the Kings Head, London. The play has been re-written as an audio play especially for this CD
Produced by Bella D’Arcy Reed, gardens and people, Autumn 2011.
Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios, Shepherds Bush, London where many Radio 4 plays and documentaries are , including Rumpole of the Bailey and The Reunion. CD and this flip book produced by Dubbs/Eyeframe, London
BUMPS: The Cast
Annette Badland
Annette appeared in the original production of Bumps at the Kings Head, Islington. Her numerous theatre credits include work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre and recently at London’s Royal Court. An-nette recently completed filming on BBC’s Land Girls and is known for her many ap-pearances on television including The Choir, Dr Who, Cutting It, Kingdom and Casu-alty. Film credits include Mother’s Milk, Legacy and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Graham Seed
Graham played Nigel Pargetter in The Archers for thirty years until his dramatic exit at the beginning of 2011. He is the recipient of the Broadcaster of the Year Awards 2010 from the Broadcasting Press Guild and the Voice of Listener & Viewer Special Award 2010; He has appeared in numerous TV programmes including I Claudius, Edward VII, Brideshead Re-visited, and in films including Gandhi. He has appeared in many theatre productions in the West End and on tour.
Sheila Dewey
Sheila's plays include The Green Man, Eva and the Cabin Boy, Pavane, and Turners Crossing. Sheila was a winner of the prestigious Thames Television Theatre Writers' Award. She has worked as director, tutor, adjudicator and script editor. She was Resident Playwright and Associate Director of the Warehouse Theatre and ran the Warehouse Writers' Workshops.
Annette Badland, Graham Seed and Author Sheila Dewey
at the recording of BUMPS, October 2011
Buy BUMPS
BUMPS can be bought directly from this website - available from 18 November 2011. If you wish to pre-order BUMPS, it will be posted to you first class on 18 November 2011.
- RRP: £14.99 - FREE P & P within UK
From 18 November 2011, the CD will be posted by First Class on the day we receive your order, provided the order is received before 3.00pm. You should receive it within 48 hrs.
BUMPS can be sent direct to your door!
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