[6][7] Adamson's second play was Grace Note,[6] produced in 1997 for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic, starring Geraldine McEwan, which was also directed by Dromgoole, but it did not receive high praise from reviewers.
A Doll's House, directed by Thea Sharrock, was the tenth anniversary production at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2003,[10][2] while Pillars of the Community was staged in 2005 at the Royal National Theatre.
[2][11] He also adapted two plays by Anton Chekhov for tours for the Oxford Stage Company, both directed by Dominic Dromgoole: Three Sisters, which transferred to the Whitehall Theatre, and The Cherry Orchard, which moved to the Riverside Studios.
[9] Adamson's play Southwark Fair was directed at the Royal National Theatre in 2005 by artistic director Nicholas Hytner, starring Rory Kinnear, Margaret Tyzack and Con O'Neill.
[6] All About My Mother, his stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's film Todo sobre mi madre, was produced to great acclaim at the Old Vic in 2007, starring Lesley Manville and Diana Rigg.
[3] His play Mrs Affleck, inspired by Ibsen's Little Eyolf, opened at the Cottesloe Theatre in January 2009, directed by Marianne Elliott and starring Claire Skinner.
[13][14] His adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Anna Friel and directed by Sean Mathias, opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London in September 2009.
[17][18] His play Frank and Ferdinand, an interpretation of the story of the Pied Piper, was part of the National Theatre Connections Festival in 2011,[19] and was performed by young amateur companies all over Britain.
[23] In collaboration with trumpeter Alison Balsom Adamson devised Gabriel, a play using the music of The Fairy Queen and other pieces by Henry Purcell, staged as part of the 2013 summer season at Shakespeare's Globe.
Directed by Timothy Sheader and Dale Rooks, this was the largest scale production ever presented at the theatre, featuring a cast of 40 young people as well as life-sized puppet animals.
[1] The production will be staged by the STCSA at the Dunstan Playhouse from 15 to 30 November 2024, starring Mark Saturno, Ahunim Abebe, James Smith, and Nathan O'Keefe, Jacqy Philips, Rachel Burke, Jelena Nicdao, and Dale March, and directed by Brookman.