Sam Boardman-Jacobs
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Sam Boardman-Jacobs is a Welsh based playwright, director scenographer & recently Choreographer, having studied for an MA at Laban.
Boardman-Jacobs is a Reader in Theatre & Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan
. His research interests include Holocaust drama, Yiddish theatre
, gay and lesbian theatre, Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca
, and the Spanish Civil War
. These interests are reflected in his plays.
He won acclaim for his work on Holocaust and Yiddish drama with the Manchester Youth Theatre and received a grant from the European Association of Jewish Culture in 2002 for his play Trying To Be, an exploration of Jewish identity set in contemporary Britain.
Sam recently took an MA in Choreography at Laban, London and now makes Choreographic Dance Theatre with FOUND REALITY DANCE THEATRE, Cardiff of which he is Artistic Director.
Play Federico For MeIs the fictional story of Catalan Actress Margarita Xirgu who, during her exile after the Spanish Civil War, depends upon the ghost of Federico García Lorca, in her political-artistic battle with Eva Perón over the first performance of Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba". His translation and adaptation of Lorca's El público
was produced by the Found Reality Theatre Company in 2005. His 2007 radio play, The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, describes the experiences of four chorus girls in Madrid while the city is under siege.
Passion for the Impossible tells the story of Violette Leduc
and Jean Genet
in wartime Paris.
& Red Hot and Blue is the story of Blues Singer Libby Holman, on the night before her suicide , as she looks back over a life, that included a Murder trial, an affair with Montgomery Clift and early Civil Rights campaigning during the Second World War.
In 2003 he taught for the Lemonia Disabled Writers' Residential Course, a project organised by Graeae Theatre Company
, Writernet and Tŷ Newydd
. The production of his 2004 play, Embracing Barbarians, based on the political and sexual fantasies of dying Greek poet Constantine Cavafy,Sam attempted to make to make the piece accessible to both deaf and hearing performers and audiences, while casting a deaf performer in the role of a hearing character.
He was also a scriptwriter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4
's The Archers
and one of the writers for Channel 4
's Brookside
. He translates from Spanish to English.
Dance Theatre Productions
With Found Reality Dance Theatre-
"Soft Murders" (Three Dance Theatre Pieces based on the paintings of 'three' Gay Artists-
Gilbert & George, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon. Chapter Arts Theatre & Atrium Theatre Cardiff
& Cardiff & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.
Boardman-Jacobs is a Reader in Theatre & Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan
University of Glamorgan
The University of Glamorgan is a university based in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales with campuses in Treforest, Glyntaff, Merthyr Tydfil, Tyn y Wern and Cardiff...
. His research interests include Holocaust drama, Yiddish theatre
Yiddish theatre
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and...
, gay and lesbian theatre, Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
, and the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
. These interests are reflected in his plays.
He won acclaim for his work on Holocaust and Yiddish drama with the Manchester Youth Theatre and received a grant from the European Association of Jewish Culture in 2002 for his play Trying To Be, an exploration of Jewish identity set in contemporary Britain.
Sam recently took an MA in Choreography at Laban, London and now makes Choreographic Dance Theatre with FOUND REALITY DANCE THEATRE, Cardiff of which he is Artistic Director.
Play Federico For MeIs the fictional story of Catalan Actress Margarita Xirgu who, during her exile after the Spanish Civil War, depends upon the ghost of Federico García Lorca, in her political-artistic battle with Eva Perón over the first performance of Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba". His translation and adaptation of Lorca's El público
El público
The Public , also known as The Audience, is a surrealist play by the twentieth-century Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written between 1929 and 1930, but remained unpublished until 1978 and did not receive its first professional theatrical production until 1986...
was produced by the Found Reality Theatre Company in 2005. His 2007 radio play, The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, describes the experiences of four chorus girls in Madrid while the city is under siege.
Passion for the Impossible tells the story of Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc was a French author.She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe. In Valenciennes, the young Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her mother's hostility and overprotectiveness...
and Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
in wartime Paris.
& Red Hot and Blue is the story of Blues Singer Libby Holman, on the night before her suicide , as she looks back over a life, that included a Murder trial, an affair with Montgomery Clift and early Civil Rights campaigning during the Second World War.
In 2003 he taught for the Lemonia Disabled Writers' Residential Course, a project organised by Graeae Theatre Company
Graeae Theatre Company
Graeae Theatre Company is a British organisation composed of artists and managers with physical and sensory disabilities. It was founded in 1980 by Nabil Shaban and Richard Tomlinson and named after the Graeae of Greek mythology...
, Writernet and Tŷ Newydd
Ty Newydd
Tŷ Newydd, the National Centre for Writing in Wales, is a renowned writing centre at Llanystumdwy, near Cricieth, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is in the former home of David Lloyd George, the Welsh politician who served as British Prime Minister during the First World War...
. The production of his 2004 play, Embracing Barbarians, based on the political and sexual fantasies of dying Greek poet Constantine Cavafy,Sam attempted to make to make the piece accessible to both deaf and hearing performers and audiences, while casting a deaf performer in the role of a hearing character.
He was also a scriptwriter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
's The Archers
The Archers
The Archers is a long-running British soap opera broadcast on the BBC's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. It was originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", but is now described on its Radio 4 web site as "contemporary drama in a rural setting"...
and one of the writers for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's Brookside
Brookside
Brookside is a defunct British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003...
. He translates from Spanish to English.
Stage plays
- Someone Else’s Rainbow, 1979
- Setting Out For Ithaca 1980
- Farblas! 1996
- Play Federico For Me, 1998
- Passion for the Impossible, 1999
- Asylum, 2001
- Trying To Be, 2002
- Why Is This Night?, 2003
- Embracing Barbarians, 2004
- The Public 2005 (English translation from Lorca's El Publico)
- Red Hot & Blue 2007
Radio plays
- Her Name Was Milena 1982
- Last Friday in Jerusalem 1984
- Fanny Rosen's Bad Debt 1985
- After Every Dream 1988
- Facing the Sun 1986
- After Every Dream 1988
- Doesn't Everyone Live in a Ballroom? 1991
- Hangover Square (Dramatised from Patrick Hamilton's novel) 1994
- The Abduction of Esther Lyons, 1999
- One Pair of Hands, (5 Part Series) 2001 (adaptation of the novel by Monica DickensMonica DickensMonica Enid Dickens, MBE was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.-Biography:...
) - The Sixth Column Has Better Legs,(5 part series) 2007
Dance Theatre Productions
With Found Reality Dance Theatre-
"Soft Murders" (Three Dance Theatre Pieces based on the paintings of 'three' Gay Artists-
Gilbert & George, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon. Chapter Arts Theatre & Atrium Theatre Cardiff
& Cardiff & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.