Robin Brooks
Robin Brooks (born 1961, Leeds) is a British radio dramatist, some-time actor and author.[1]
Selected credits[]
Adaptations[]
- 2000 – The Art of Love, a comedy, emphasizing Ovid's role as lover, with Bill Nighy and Anne-Marie Duff[2]
- 2004 – Mort by Terry Pratchett
- 2006 – Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
- 2008 – An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
- 2008 – Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- 2009 – Armadale by Wilkie Collins
- 2010 – I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- 2012 – Ulysses by James Joyce
- 2012 – Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
- 2013 – Eric by Terry Pratchett
- 2013 – "Jill" by Philip Larkin
- 2019 — One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn[3]
Plays[]
- 1998 – The Golden Triangle – a trilogy on the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, consisting of:
- The Awakening Conscience (on William Holman Hunt and his model Annie Miller, taking its title from Hunt's painting of the same name)
- The Order of Release (on John Everett Millais, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, named after Millais's painting of the same name)
- Love Among The Ruins (on Edward Burne-Jones and Maria Zambaco, named after Burne-Jones's painting of the same name)
- 2003 – The Smallest Man in Christendom
- 2006 – Duce's Bonce[4][5]
- 2007 – A Warning to the Furious[6]
- 2018 – 4/4: Introduction and Allegro[7]
- 2018 – 4/4: Rondo Mysterioso[8]
- 2020 – Elizabeth and Essex[9]
References and notes[]
- ^ Robin Brooks - allegra
- ^ ROBIN BROOKS RADIO PLAYS
- ^ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- ^ Radio: Pick of the day, Phil Daoust, The Guardian, 30 May 2006
- ^ Radio – Martin Hoyle, Financial Times, 30 May 2006
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – A Warning to the Furious
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Introduction and Allegro
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Rondo Mysterioso
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6t9
External Sources[]
Categories:
- English radio writers
- Living people
- British radio people
- 1961 births
- Writers from Leeds
- English dramatists and playwrights
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in popular culture
- People from Macclesfield