An Experiment with an Air Pump
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An Experiment with an Air Pump is a play by English playwright Shelagh Stephenson inspired by the painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright. It shared the Peggy Ramsay Award for 1997, was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 1998, and has since been staged by a number of other companies worldwide. It was published in Plays One, a collection of Stephenson's plays published in 2002.
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Written by | Shelagh Stephenson |
Characters | Joseph Fenwick Susannah Fenwick Harriet Fenwick Maria Fenwick Peter Mark Roget Thomas Armstrong Isobel Bridie Ellen Tom Phil Kate |
Date premiered | 12 February 1998 |
Place premiered | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Subject | Science & Morality |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | A house in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1799 & 1999. |
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