Sam Boardman-Jacobs (born 1949) is a Welsh playwright, director and production designer. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Boardman-Jacobs is a Reader in Theatre & Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan. The University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg is a University in Pontypridd (in the former County of Mid Glamorgan) Wales with campuses His research interests include Holocaust Drama, Yiddish Theatre, Gay and Lesbian Theatre, Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, and the Spanish Civil War. As one of the defining events of the 20th century and one of the most stark examples of human brutality in modern history the Holocaust has had a profound impact on Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish community Federico García Lorca' ( 5 June 1898 &ndash 19 August 1936) was a Spanish Poet and dramatist also remembered as The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of [1] These interests are reflected in his plays.
He won acclaim[2] 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. [3]
In Play Federico For Me the ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca, killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, meets Eva Peron. María Eva Duarte de Perón' ( May 7 1919 &ndash July 26 1952) was the second wife of President Juan Domingo Perón His translation and adaptation of Lorca's El público was produced by the Found Reality Theatre Company in 2005. The Public ( El público) also known as The Audience, is an surrealist play by the twentieth-century Spanish Dramatist 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. The Siege of Madrid was a three year Siege of the Spanish capital Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939
Passion For The Impossible tells the story of Violette Leduc and Jean Genet in wartime Paris. Violette Leduc ( 7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French author Jean Genet (ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ in French ( –) was a prominent controversial French writer and later political activist.
In 2003 he taught for the Lemonia Disabled Writers' Residential Course, a project organised by Graeae Theatre Company, Writernet and Ty Newydd. Graeae Theatre Company is a British organisation composed of artists and managers with physical and sensory impairments Tŷ Newydd, the National Centre for Writing in Wales is a renowned writing centre near Cricieth, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. [4] The production of his 2004 play, Embracing Barbarians, based on the political and sexual fantasies of dying Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, 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. Constantine P Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Π [5]
He was also a scriptwriter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4's The Archers and one of the original writers for Channel 4's "Brookside". The Archers is a British radio Soap opera broadcast on the BBC 's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began Brookside, commonly referred to as "Brookie" was a Soap opera set in Liverpool, England, introduced with the then new British He translates from Spanish to English.