Bridget Boland
Bridget Boland (13 March 1913 – 19 January 1988) was an Irish-British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.[1]
Life
Bridget Boland was born in
Boland was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
Boland reflected on her life and work in 1987:
"Although I hold a British passport I am in fact Irish, and the daughter of an Irish politician at that, which may account for a certain contrariness in my work. Many playwrights have become screenwriters; so I was a screenwriter and became a playwright. Most women writers excel on human stories in domestic settings: so I am bored by domestic problems, and allergic to domestic settings. I succeed best with heavy drama (The Prisoner), so I can't resist trying to write frothy comedy (Temple Folly).
By the time you have written half a dozen plays or so you began to realize you are probably still trying to write the one you started with. However different I begin by thinking is the theme of each, I find that in the end every play is saying: "Belief is dangerous" - the theme of Cockpit.[3]
Works
Selected filmography
- Laugh It Off (1940)
- Gaslight (1940)
- Freedom Radio (1941)
- He Found a Star (1941)
- This England (1941)
- Prelude to Fame (1950)
- The Fake (1953)
- The Prisoner (1955)
- War and Peace (1956)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Plays
- The Arabian Nights, produced 1948
- Cockpit, produced 1948; featured in Plays of the Year 1, 1949; filmed as The Lost People
- The Damascus Blade, produced 1950
- The Return, produced 1952 as Journey to Earth and 1953 as The Return
- The Prisoner, produced 1954; featured in Plays of the Year 10, 1954
- Gordon, produced 1961; featured in Plays of the Year 25, 1962
- The Zodiac in the Establishment, produced 1963
- A Juan by Degrees, produced 1965 (adaptation of a play by Pierre Humblot)
- Time Out of Mind, produced 1970
Novels
- The Wild Geese, 1938
- Portrait of a Lady in Love, 1942
- Caterina, 1975
Other
- (with Maureen Boland) Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners, 1976
- Gardener's Magic and Other Old Wives' Lore, 1977
- At My Mother's Knee, 1978
- (ed.) The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement, 1983. Abridgement of the 6-volume edition edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne
References
- ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | BOLAND, Bridget". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ Ronald Hayman, 'Bridget Boland', in K. A. Berney, ed., Contemporary British Dramatists, Gale, 1994, pp. 81-83
- ^ 'Bridget Boland writes (1987)', in K. A. Berney, ed., Contemporary British Dramatists, Gale, 1994, p.82
External links
- Bridget Boland at IMDb