Stephanie Dale - Current

Chester Mystery Plays

Stephanie has been commissioned to adapt the Chester Mystery Plays. The plays will involve over 100 community actors from in and around Chester and will be performed in Chester Cathedral. More information coming soon.

Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.

Mary Macarthur

Stephanie has been commissioned by Midland Actors Theatre to write a stage play about Mary Macarthur. Mary Macarthur waged a national campaign, which exposed the "chain-masters as perpetuators of sweated labour" in an impressive ten-week strike for the chain-making women of Cradley Heath, in the West Midlands. Mary's mission was to significantly improve working conditions and improve the women's pay in 1910. The play had rehearsed reading in November 2010. Currently, Stephanie is writing five short films to accompany the play which will made and screened, in and around the museum, at a launch event in October 2011. Finally, the play will be staged at the Black Country Museum and involve a professional company and 100 community actors, plus local choirs and schools.(October 2012).

Directed by Peter Cann with music by Tim Laycock

The Witches' Promise

Stephanie has been commissioned by the Birmingham REP www.birmingham-rep.co.uk to write a site-specific play set in and around the ruins of Weoley Castle. Over recent months Stephanie has been researching the history of the site and working with local community groups, gathering stories for this large-scale play. The play has been written for a cast of over 100 and is set in 1320; at a time that witnesses the Lord of the castle and local villagers struggling to survive the onset of The Great Famine. (July 2012).

Directed by Peter Cann.

Dealing With Dreams

As part of her attachment to the Birmingham REP www.birmingham-rep.co.uk Stephanie was invited to write a play set in the heady fizz of 1920's bohemia and years later under the cloud of the onset of war. The play, written specifically for The New Walsall Art Gallery, explores the extraordinary life and work of controversial artist, Jacob Epstein and his mistress, Kathleen Garman. (2013).

Moonfleet

Stephanie has adapted a stage adaptation of J.M. Falkner's classic, smuggling tale set in 1759. This fast paced, evocative play has been written for six actor/musicians, with a stunning, traditional score arranged by Tim Laycock.