Sharman Macdonald

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Sharman Macdonald (born February 8, 1951 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a writer and playwright .

Macdonald is the wife of actor Will Knightley and mother of Caleb and Keira Knightley .

Works (selection)

  • 1985: When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout , Faber and Faber
  • 1986: The Beast , Collins
  • 1988: Night Night , Collins
  • 1991: All Things Nice , Faber and Faber
  • 1995: Plays One , (Contains the pieces: When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout , When We Were Women , The Winter Guest , Borders of Paradise ), Faber and Faber
  • 1999: After Juliet , Stanley Thornes
  • 2003: The Girl with Red Hair , Faber and Faber
  • 2008: The Edge of Love

The play The Winter Guest was made into a film in 1997.

Prizes and awards

In 1984 Macdonald received the Evening Standard Theater Award for Most Promising Playwright.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120521/
  2. Kathryn Ann Berney, NG Templeton: Contemporary Dramatists, St. James Press, 1993, p. 404 [1]

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