Oliver Emanuel

Oliver Emanuel (born 4 April 1980) is a British playwright and radio dramatist. His play Daniel and Mary received a Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama in 2010.[1] His play Dragon won Best Show For Children and Young People at the UK Theatre Awards in 2014.[2] His English version of Titus won the People's Choice Victor Award in 2015 at IPAY.[3] His play A History of Paper was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2017,[4] When The Pips Stop won the Tinniswood Award in 2019,[5] and The Truth About Hawaii won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Series or Serial in 2019.[6]

Oliver Emanuel was born in Kent, attended St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School in Tunbridge Wells, studied English and Theatre Studies at University of Leeds (1998–2001) before going on to take the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (2001–02). His late mother was a drama teacher and his father is a lawyer.[7] He was Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 and Writer-in-Residence for BBC Radio 4 Children in Need in 2010. He has lived in Glasgow since 2006. He is Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library.[8]

In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Oliver Emanuel has written two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows (October 2009) and John (7 May 2010), and scripted the short film This Way Up.

Radio plays

Radio plays written by Oliver Emanuel
Date first broadcast	Play	Director	Cast	Synopsis Awards	Station Series
11 April 2007	Joseph and Joseph [9]	Colin Guthrie	Shaun Dooley, Helen Longworth, Christine Kavanagh, Sam Dale, John Dougall, Philippe Smolikowski, Mark Straker and Rachel Bavidge	Identity theft is something that happens to other people, but the person who stole Joseph's life seems to be having a lot more fun with it than he is.	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
9 October 2009	Daniel and Mary [10]	Kirsty Williams	Robin Laing and Natasha Watson	A frank and moving drama exploring alcoholism from a child's point of view. Mary's nine years old. When she comes down to breakfast to find her dad's still up from the night before and still drinking vodka, she decides it's time to leave home. Bronze Sony Award for Best Drama 2010 [1]	BBC Radio Scotland Drama
23 February 2010	Elvis in Prestwick [11]	Eilidh McCreadie	Read by Laura Fraser	Elvis Presley's only trip to Britain, a brief stopover on 3 March 1960 at a small Scottish airport on his return from military service in Germany. A shy young girl who doesn't even like rock 'n' roll is dragged along to the airport by her best friend, who is determined to catch a glimpse of the American superstar. Taking refuge from the crowds, the girl encounters a handsome stranger in the staff corridor – some weeks later, a letter arrives from America.	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
30 October 2010	The Vanishing dramatisation of Tim Krabbé novel [12]	Kirsty Williams	Samuel West, Melody Grove, Ruth Gemmell, Liam Brennan, Natasha Watson, Claire Knight and Robin Laing	Rex and Saskia stop at a petrol station. Saskia goes in to buy drinks and is never seen again. Eight years later, Rex is so haunted by her disappearance that he sets out to discover what happened to her, regardless of the cost. A chilling love story that takes us to the heart of the perfect crime.	BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play
17 November 2010	Everything [13]	Lu Kemp	Natasha Watson, Sandy Grierson and Meg Fraser	Everything tells the story of a fourteen-year-old girl who spends 7 days in a refuge for runaways. Under Scottish law, any young person under the age of sixteen is allowed to stay in a refuge for up to seven days without parental notification.	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
12 February 2011	One Night in Iran [14]	Lu Kemp	Khalid Abdalla and Maryam Hamidi	A man and a woman meet in a hotel room. They have been in love for five years but have never yet spent a night together. Tonight they meet alone for the first time. But this is Iran, and what the couple are doing is illegal. If they are caught, or even suspected, the consequences might be too terrible to contemplate.	BBC Radio 3 The Wire
28 September 2011	One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds [15]	Kirsteen Cameron	Read by Robin Laing	A young man, devastated by a messy relationship break-up, finds solace in bird watching.	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
30 November 2011	Ancient Greek [16]	Lu Kemp	Alex Austin, Vincent Ebrahim, Sophie Stanton, Caitlin FitzGerald and Austin Moulton	A promising student on the road to Oxbridge. A teacher on the eve of retirement. Graffiti scrawled on a school wall in a dead language. A play about education, protest and what we can expect in the future...	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
30 June 2012	Thirteen Minutes in Cairo [17]	Kirsty Williams	Meg Fraser, Simon Tait and Hannah Donaldson	In the week when the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate became Egypt's first democratically elected president, a husband returns from a celebration following President Mursi's inauguration to find his wife packing to leave the country.	BBC Radio 4 From Fact to Fiction
13 August 2012 – 17 August 2012	The Other One [18]	Kirsty Williams	Natasha Watson, Frances Grey, Robin Laing, Meg Fraser and Finlay Welsh	A tense and moving drama inspired by real events. A twelve-year-old girl's world turns upside down when she is told an unbelievable truth	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
22 February 2013	The Spare Room [19]	Lu Kemp	Candida Benson, Babou Ceesay, Hannah Wood and Michael Shelford	Michael didn't mean to come to England, and he didn't mean to end up living secretly in Stephanie's spare room. But most of all, he didn't mean to be found.	BBC Radio 4
29 January 2014	Albion Street [20]	Gaynor Macfarlane	Robin Laing and Meg Fraser	Jamie and Kirsty have been separated for about 10 years. Before that they were married for about 10 years. They meet by chance in a restaurant in Albion Street. What does the future hold? Are they better together or apart?	BBC Radio Scotland Drama
16 January 2015	Take Me to the Necropolis [21]	Kirsty Williams	Emerald O'Hanrahan, Rebecca Benson, Lewis Binnie, Alison Peebles, Rosalind Sydney and Liam Brennan	Alice and Sasha are celebrating their graduation when Alice takes Sasha on a secret trip to a graveyard. Sasha is not impressed. But, after they've downed a bottle of bubbly and smoked a joint, they find themselves in the middle of a surreal space where imaginary boys and dead people talk to them and something even more sinister can penetrate their mind...	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
23 November 2015	Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.3. Food dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [22] [23]	Kirsty Williams	Glenda Jackson, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Jonathan Keeble, Graeme Hawley, Millie Kinsey and Julie Hesmondhalgh	Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, the matriarch to a family of wolves – the Rougon-Macquarts. Lisa Macquart’s brother-in-law turns up on her doorstep and her entire future seems threatened.	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
24 November 2015	Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.4. Politics dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [24]	Kirsty Williams	Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Laura Dos Santos, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Graeme Hawley and Jonathan Keeble	Eugène Rougon was once at the heart of government. Now he’s just another member of the public, and it’s killing him. When his cousin Lisa Macquart turns up with proof that her brother-in-law is embroiled in a plot to assassinate the Emperor, a game of political chess begins.	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
25 November 2015	Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.5. Drink dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [25]	Kirsty Williams	Glenda Jackson, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Mark Holgate	Gervaise Macquart has spent her life chasing happiness. Now, as she sits across the table from a bottle of brandy and a quiet, handsome man, she realises just how priceless that feeling is.	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
26 January 2016	A History of Paper [26] [27] [28]	Kirsty Williams	Mark Bonnar and Lucy Gaskell	A man goes through a cardboard box. Each piece of paper he picks out holds a memory. Pieced together the memories tell the story of an everyday and extraordinary love affair. Folded into that is a brief, and sometimes fictional, history of paper. Shortlisted for Tinniswood Award 2017 [4]	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
7 May 2016	Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.1. Performance dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [29]	Kirsty Williams	Glenda Jackson, Holliday Grainger, Ben Batt, John Catterall, David Crellin, Kimberly Hart-Simpson, Reece Noi and Kate O'Flynn	A story of sexual desire and the birth of a celebrity in the decadence and degradation of 19th Century France. Nana's been living and working on the dangerous streets of Paris when a theatre manager buys her for the night and realizes just how potent she could be.	BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play
8 May 2016	Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.2. Power dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [30]	Kirsty Williams	Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Victoria Beesley, Laurie Brown, Laura Dos Santos, Alasdair Hankinson and Jonathan Keeble	A potent story about the clash between love and politics. Eugène Rougon is at the peak of his political power when his lover gives him an ultimatum.	BBC Radio 4
28 October 2016	Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Fate dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [31] [32]	Kirsty Williams	Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Samuel West, John Bett, Colette O'Neil, Gavi Singh Chera and Sean Graham	Two Rougon brothers, Eugène and Aristide, head to Prussia. One on a diplomatic mission to prevent war, one chasing an arms deal. When their worlds clash, the repercussions are monumental. BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Adaptation, 2017.[33]	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
29 January 2017	Transformations [34]	Kirsty Williams	Read by Shauna Macdonald	Short story series in which five writers choose five poems as inspiration for new stories. A young woman finds herself transformed into a tree. An entrancing story inspired by Thomas Hardy's poem about life after death.	BBC Radio 4
22 January 2018 – 2 February 2018	The Truth About Hawaii [35]	Kirsty Williams	Jocelyn Brassington, Christine Bottomley, Roderick Gilkison, Robin Laing, Kevin Mains, Anita Vettesse, Dani Heron and Adura Onashile	Potent and playful drama set in a near-future in which doctors can no longer prescribe antibiotics. Sarah is 10 years old. An everyday scratch turns her family's world upside down. BBC Audio Drama Award winner for Best Original Series or Serial, 2019.[6] ISNTD (International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases) Festival, Best Audio Drama, 2018.	BBC Radio 4 15 Minute Drama
30 September 2018	(After) Fear [36]	Kirsty Williams	Shauna Macdonald, Meg Fraser, Maryam Hamidi and Robin Laing	A fast-paced, roller-coaster of a thriller about adultery, blackmail and the heady power of fear. Inspired by the work and life of Stefan and Lotte Zweig.	BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
11 October 2018	When The Pips Stop [37]	Kirsty Williams	Shauna Macdonald, Jessica Hardwick, Jakob Jakobsson and Ken Mitchell	It’s 2:13pm on a remote Scottish island where the only inhabitants are two sisters. One of them hasn’t spoken to the other for over two years. They’re listening to The Archers, and then Radio 4 goes off-air. Now they have to learn to live together and without the one thing they each cherish: Radio 4. Tinniswood Award 2019 winner [5] [6]	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama

Theatre

Stage plays written by Oliver Emanuel
Date	Title	Director	Cast	Synopsis	Theatre Company	Notes
August 2001 – 18 August 2001	Gemini[38]		Victoria Glass and Claire Davies		Stage By Stage
3 August 2003 – 25 August 2003	Iz [39] [40] [41]	Daniel Bye	Grae Cleugh, Nick Jesper and Andrew Patfield	We are introduced to the three former lovers of Iz, shortly after her death. The three men are also friends; and the play looks at the relationships between them, as well as their individual relationships with Iz, and their reactions to her death.	Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Theatre
June 2004 –			Grae Cleugh, James Gitsham and Andrew Patfield		Silver Tongue Theatre / Tron Theatre, Glasgow
August 2006 – 28 August 2006	Shiver [42]	Daniel Bye	Kay Bridgeman and Grae Cleugh		Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Courtyard
28 May 2007 – 7 June 2007			Marcia Battise		Theatre 503
6 August 2005 – 28 August 2005	Bella and the Beautiful Knight [43] [44]	Daniel Bye	Grae Cleugh, Sally Kent, Nicholas Cowell	A love triangle. Two of the characters are siblings. Kiss me or kill me, sister.	Silver Tongue Theatre / Gilded Balloon Teviot
May 2006 –					Tron Theatre, Glasgow
19 May 2007 – 8 June 2007	Magpie Park [45] [46] [47] [48]	Sam Brown	Alison Pargeter and Liam McKenna [Issue 1]	A store detective nabs a kleptomaniac and falls for her. Their affair is carried on in a hotel room where she eventually commits suicide. He gradually falls for her younger sister.	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
August 2007 – 26 August 2007	Man Across the Way [49] [50]	Daniel Bye	Grae Cleugh, Nicholas Cowell, John Milroy and Harriette Quarrie		Silver Tongue Theatre and Theatre 503
April 2008 – 11 April 2008	The Severed Head of Comrade Bukhari [51]	Daljinder Singh			Arches Theatre, Glasgow
16 April 2008 – 19 April 2008					Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
June 2008 –	Flit	Alison Peebles			National Theatre of Scotland
13 October 2008 –	Videotape [52]	Joe Douglas	Robbie Jack and Sam Young	A woman follows a man through a city, recording his every move on video, in a story about "love, loss, truth and lies, and the things we can't throw away".	Òran Mór, Glasgow
March 2011 –	One night in Iran [53]		Nabil Stuart and Amiera Darwish	Set in a luxury hotel room in Tehran, the play explores the gap between the official culture of country – where adultery remains a crime and marriage a practical family arrangement – and the inner lives and longings of a younger generation whose ideas are shaped as much by global culture as by Iranian tradition.	Òran Mór, Glasgow
21 June 2011	Henry & Ingrid: Some Words For Home			A verbatim play based on the lives of Henry & Ingrid Wuga for the Scottish Refugee Council, as part of Scottish Refugee Week.	Tron Theatre, Glasgow
2011 –	Spirit of Adventure [54]				Dundee Rep / Òran Mór, Glasgow
2012 –	Random Objects Flying Through The Air				Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
2012 –	End of The World				Red Note Ensemble
2012 – 2013	Titus				Macrobert / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland / Imaginate / Edinburgh Festival Fringe	New English version of Jan Sobrie's text.
2013 –	The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish	Lu Kemp			National Theatre of Scotland	Adaptation of the book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (created by Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty)
2013 – 2015	Dragon				Vox Motus / National Theatre of Scotland / Tianjin People's Arts Theatre, China	Conceived by Jamie Harrison, Oliver Emanuel and Candice Edmunds
4 December 2014 – 4 January 2015	The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot [55]	Gareth Nicholls	David Ireland and Alasdair Hankinson		Macrobert The Arches, Glasgow	Co-created with Gareth Nicholls
2014 –	The Adventures of Robin Hood				Visible Fictions
13 May 2015 –	The Lost Things [56] [57] [58] [59] [60]	Ross MacKay	Arran Howie and Alex Bird	A boy falls and finds himself in a dark and terrifying new world. It’s a world of lost things: car keys, wedding rings, dads, and a mysterious girl who is building an amazing machine.	Tortoise in a Nutshell
21 March 2016 – 26 March 2016	Prom [61] [62]	Gareth Nicholls	Ryan Fletcher, Helen MacKay, Martin McBride and Nicola Roy	Invitation goes up on the sixth form notice board. ‘You and a partner are cordially invited to the greatest night of your life…’ Four friends are reunited to remember when they were seventeen and beautiful. The end of school Prom. As memories are recalled and secrets laid bare, a terrible truth is brought to life.	A Play, a Pie and a Pint Òran Mór, Glasgow
29 March 2016 – 6 April 2016					Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
24 May 2016 – 11 June 2016	The 306: Dawn [63] [64] [65] [66] [67]	Laurie Sansom	Scott Gilmour, Josef Davies and Joshua Miles	The 306 [68] is a new piece of music theatre for the First World War centenary. Based on real events, it charts the journey of three of the British soldiers who were executed for cowardice, desertion and mutiny during World War I (1914-18)	National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW	Composed by Gareth Williams
5 May 2017 – 3 June 2017	The 306: Day [69] [70] [71] [72]	Jemima Levick	Dani Heron, Amanda Wilkin, Fletcher Mathers, Wendy Somerville, Angela Hardie and Steven Miller	1917. The war across the channel rages on. In Russia, a revolution is turning the social order on its head. And at home in Britain, there are women fighting their own battle. Rents are rising. Food is scarce. And war work can be deadly. Inspired by real events and first-hand accounts, The 306: Day follows the lives of three ordinary women fighting to be heard above the clamour of World War 1.	National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company with funding from 14–18 NOW	Composed by Gareth Williams
4 August 2017 – 27 August 2017	Flight [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82]	Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds	Nalini Chetty, Farshid Rokey, Emun Elliott, Maryam Hamidi, Robert Jack, Rosalind Sydney, Waleed Akhtar and Adura Odashile	Two young orphaned brothers embark on a desperate odyssey to freedom and safety. With their small inheritance stitched into their clothes, they set off on an epic journey across Europe, in a heart-wrenching road story of terror, hope and survival. Herald Angel Award 2017.	Vox Motus Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh	Based on the novel Hinterland by Caroline Brothers
29 January 2018 – 30 September 2018					McKittrick Hotel, New York [83]
5 October 2018 – 21 October 2018					Melbourne International Arts Festival [84]
4 May 2019 – 23 May 2019					Brighton Festival [85]
18 January 2020 – 2 February 2020					ASU Gammage [86]
10 October 2018 – 27 October 2018	The 306: Dusk [87] [88] [89] [90]	Wils Wilson	Sarah Kameela Impey, Ryan Fletcher and Danny Hughes	The 306: Dusk is a new piece of music theatre about memory and forgetting, friendship and betrayal, exploring what the Great War means to us today. 2018. Armistice Day. A pregnant school teacher on a trip to the battlefields goes AWOL in a wood whilst on a personal mission of remembrance. An injured veteran of the Iraq war relives the nightmare of battle. A blindfolded soldier wakes up after 100 years to hear the birds singing once more…	National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW	Composed by Gareth Williams
3 October 2019 – 19 October 2019	The Monstrous Heart [91] [92] [93] [94] [95]	Gareth Nicholls	Charlene Boyd, Christine Entwisle and Tanya Moodie	Mag lives in a rustic cabin in the Canadian wilds, far from neighbours and further from her past. It’s an unremarkable life, save for the enormous bear carcass on the kitchen table. But when her estranged daughter Beth turns up on the doorstep having been freshly released from prison, the past becomes terrifyingly present - and the bear isn’t the only thing with a dangerous bite. Beth came to ask Mag a question. But is she prepared for the answer? Can they really settle their scores? And can Mag keep an innocent life from being destroyed in the crossfire? As a blizzard closes in and dangerous words are traded, Mag accepts a challenge from a most unexpected source and lights a fuse that looks set to blow both women sky high.	Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
22 October 2019 – 2 November 2019					Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Short stories

• Nude [96]

Other Work

• Desperate Run [97]

References

1. Sony Radio Academy Awards – Official site (not currently useful!)
   Sony Radio Academy Awards – Diversity website (temporary substitute)
   Sony Radio Academy Awards nominees, The Telegraph, 8 April 2010
2. UK Theatre Awards 2014 winners announced, The Stage, 19 October 2014
3. International Associaton of Performing Arts for Youth – Victor Award
4. Tinniswood Award 2017 – Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
5. Tinniswood Award 2019 – Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
6. BBC Audio Drama Awards – 2019 Winners
7. A Scottish play that remembers the forgotten stories of WWI deserters – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 5 January 2016
8. What’s the Big Idea? – Playwrights' Studio Scotland
9. BBC – Afternoon Play – Joseph and Joseph
10. BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Daniel and Mary
11. BBC – Afternoon Reading – Elvis In Prestwick
12. BBC – Saturday Play – The Vanishing
13. BBC – Afternoon Play – Children in Need: Everything
14. BBC – The Wire – One Night In Iran
15. BBC – Afternoon Reading – One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds
16. BBC – Afternoon Play – Ancient Greek
17. BBC – From Fact to Fiction – Thirteen Minutes in Cairo
18. BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Other One
19. BBC – Afternoon Play – The Spare Room
20. BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Albion Street
21. BBC – Afternoon Play – Take Me to the Necropolis
22. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.3. Food
23. Adapting Emile Zola for BBC Radio 4 – Oliver Emanuel, BBC writers room, 27 November 2015
24. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.4. Politics
25. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.5. Drink
26. BBC – Afternoon Play – A History of Paper
27. The History of 'A History of Paper' (or three lessons about radio drama) – Kirsty Williams, BBC writers room, 24 January 2017
28. Script: A History of Paper by Oliver Emanuel
29. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Performance
30. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.2. Power
31. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Fate
32. BBC Sounds – "We've run out of books!" – Oliver Emanuel on making up an episode...
33. BBC Audio Drama Awards – 2017 Winners
34. BBC – The Poet and the Echo – Transformations
35. BBC – 15 Minute Drama – The Truth About Hawaii
36. BBC – Drama on 3 – (After) Fear
37. BBC – Afternoon Drama – When The Pips Stop
38. Gemini – The Scotsman, 14 August 2001
39. Iz, Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Theatre – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 22 August 2003
40. IZ, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe –– Mark Tyson, Culture Wars
41. Looking back, looking on – The Scotsman, 21 June 2004
42. Shiver, Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh – Maddy Costa, The Guardian, 18 August 2006
43. Bella and the Beautiful Knight – Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 24 August 2005
44. Theatre: Bella and the Beautiful Knight, Tron, Glasgow 3/5 – Keith Bruce, The Herald, 5 May 2006
45. Theatre Preview, Magpie Park, Leeds – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 19 May 2007
46. Magpie Park, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds – Alfred Hickling, The Guardian, 26 May 2007
47. Magpie Park – Kevin Berry, The Stage, 24 May 2007
48. BBC – Leeds – Entertainment – Parklife
49. Man Across The Way – The Scotsman, 9 August 2007
50. Man Across The Way – Gerald Berkowitz, The Stage, 17 August 2007
51. Theatre: From war abroad to a war at home – The Scotsman, 10 April 2008
52. Videotape, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 16 October 2008
53. Theatre review: One night in Iran, Glasgow – The Scotsman, 22 March 2011
54. Theatre review: Spirit of Adventure, Glasgow – The Herald, 15 February 2012
55. The Stage - 5 Dec 2014
56. Imaginate 2015 Festival Programme
57. The Lost Things by Tortoise in a Nutshell and Oliver Emanuel
58. A perfectly formed immersive puppet show from Tortoise in a Nutshell – Claire Wood, The Wee Review, 12 August 2018
59. The Lost Things – Katie Rose, Broadway Baby, 12 August 2018
60. Theatre Review: The Lost Things – Peter Callaghan, Reviewsphere, 17 April 2019
61. Prom – A Play, a Pie and a Pint
62. PPP: Prom – Hugh Simpson, All Edinburgh Theatre, 29 March 2016
63. The 306: Dawn – National Theatre of Scotland
64. The 306: Dawn, the play that honours First World War soldiers shot for desertion – Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, 23 May 2016
65. Theatre review: The 306: Dawn, Dalcrue, Perthshire – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 30 May 2016
66. Theatre Review: The 306: Dawn, Dalcrue Farm, Perth – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 30th May 2016
67. Theatre: The 306: Dawn at Dalcrue Farm, Perthshire – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 1 June 2016
68. 306 pardons, one act of sanity – Ben Macintyre, The Times, 18 August 2006
69. The 306: Day – National Theatre of Scotland
70. Theatre review: The 306: Day – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 9 May 2017
71. Theatre review: The 306: Day, Station Hotel, Perth – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 8 May 2017
72. Theatre: The 306: Day at Station Hotel, Perth – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 16 May 2017
73. Flight – Vox Motus
74. EIF 2017: Flight, Church Hill Theatre & Studio, Review – Irene Brown, Edinburgh Guide, 5 August 2017
75. Flight review – miniature models tell epic refugee story – Michael Billington, The Guardian, 6 Aug 2017
76. Festival Theatre: Flight, Churchill Theatre – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 6 August 2017
77. Theatre review: Flight – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 7 August 2017
78. Flight review at Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘deeply important and innovative’ – Anna Winter, The Stage, 7 August 2017
79. Edinburgh International Festival Review: Flight – Dylan Taylor, All Edinburgh Theatre, 11 August 2017
80. Theatre – Birds and prey – Tableaux of hardship and loss – Anna Aslanyan, The Times Literary Supplement, 18 August 2017
81. Edinburgh theatre review: Flight – Susannah Clapp, The Observer, 20 August 2017
82. Review: ‘Flight’ Has No Live Actors. But Its Story of Two Afghan Boys Feels So Real – Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times, 12 February 2018
83. Flight – McKittrick Hotel, New York
84. Flight – Melbourne International Arts Festival
85. Flight – Brighton Festival
86. Flight – ASU Gammage
87. The 306: Dusk – National Theatre of Scotland
88. Theatre review: The 306: Dusk, Perth Theatre – The Scotsman, 25 October 2018
89. Theatre review: The 306: Dusk at Perth Theatre – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 15 October 2018
90. Theatre review: The 306: Dusk, Perth Theatre – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 15 October 2018
91. The Monstrous Heart by Oliver Emanuel – Traverse Theatre
92. The Monstrous Heart review – blood, fury and a talking dead bear – Miriam Gillinson, The Guardian, 10 October 2019
93. The Monstrous Heart review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘overwrought and awkward’ – Fergus Morgan, The Stage, 24 October 2019
94. Theatre reviews: The Monstrous Heart, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 25 October 2019
95. Review: The Monstrous Heart, Traverse, Edinburgh, Four stars – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 25 October 2019
96. "Nude by Oliver Emanuel". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
97. Desperate Run

External links

• Oliver Emanuel
• Oliver Emanuel on IMDb
• Oliver Emanuel at United Agents
• Oliver Emanuel at Oberon Books

Issues to be resolved in this article

• 1. Is this link correct, or a different Liam McKenna?
• Add exact dates for Stage Plays