Marilyn Imrie (Estate)
Director/Writer
Biography
Marilyn died on 21st August 2020 after a short illness.
Edinburgh and London-based theatre and audio director Marilyn’ Imrie’s continuing series directing work for the BBC includes the award-winning Stanley Baxter Playhouse, Rumpole of the Bailey, and The Ferryhill Philosophers, and new Radio 4 comedies by Hilary Lyon and Lucy Porter. She has directed eight of international poet and playwright Liz Lochhead’s plays, and new works for the theatre by John Byrne, Colin MacDonald, Rona Munro, Hattie Naylor, Bill Paterson and Lucy Porter. For Bath Festival, she’s directed courtroom versions of To Kill A Mockingbird & Rumpole Of the Bailey. In 2016 she will direct a new dramatisation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for Bristol Festival of Ideas and a new adaptation by Linda Maclean of Nobel prize-winner Alice Munro’s The View From Castle Rock for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In that year, Marilyn also directed rehearsed readings of a new play by Anna Carlisle about the Scots painter Joan Eardley at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art (Heroica Theatre Company in association with Stellar Quines and the National Galleries of Scotland) which then toured in 2017.
Credits
Radio
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
THE FERRYHILL PHILOSOPHERS 2019 |
BBC Radio 4 |
By Michael Chaplin. |
|
FOR THE LOVE OF LEO 2018 – 2019 |
BBC Radio 4 |
Written by Michael Chaplin. Dir. Marilyn Imrie. |
|
THE STANLEY BAXTER PLAYHOUSE: THE BOY WHO RAN AWAY FROM THE CIRCUS 2018 |
BBC Radio 4 |
Written by Michael Chaplin. Dir. Marilyn Imrie. |
|
THE STANLEY BAXTER PLAYHOUSE: MELANCHOLY BABY 2018 |
BBC Radio 4 |
Written by Michael Chaplin. Dir. Marilyn Imrie. |
|
WITH MY LITTLE EYE 2018 |
CBL / BBC Radio 4 |
Written by Richard Stoneman |
|
MRS SIDHU INVESTIGATES: MURDER WITH MASALA 2017 |
BBC Radio 4 |
Director. Written by Suk Pannu. |
|
HENRY JAMES: THE PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN 2017 |
BBC Radio 4 |
Director. By Peter Ansorge |
| THE STANLEY BAXTER PLAYHOUSE | BBC Radio 4 | |
| JOHN MORTIMER'S RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY | BBC Radio 4 |
with Benedict Cumberbatch |
| THE FERRYHILL PHILOSOPHERS | BBC Radio 4 |
by Michael Chaplin |
| SECRETS AND LATTES | BBC Radio 4 |
By Hilary Lyon |
| THE FAIR INTELLECTUAL CLUB | BBC Radio 4 |
Comedy Series by Lucy Porter based on 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Hit |
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| BIG & SMALL | BBC |
Voice Director on the award-winning CBBC animation series starring Lenny Henry, Imelda Staunton & Jim Carter |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
DUSTY WON'T PLAY 2019 |
A Play, A Pie and Pint at the Oran Mor |
Written by Annie Caulfield. Revival. |
|
COMING CLEAN 2019 |
A Play, A Pie and Pint at the Oran Mor |
By Alma Cullen |
|
AILSA BENSON IS MISSING 2018 |
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Front Room, Assembly Rooms |
by Samara Maclaren |
|
MARGARET SAVES SCOTLAND 2018 |
Aberdeen Performing Arts and Traverse Theatre |
by Val McDermid |
|
JOHN EARDLEY: A PRIVATE VIEW 2017 |
Heroica Theatre |
by Anna Carlisle |
|
DUSTY WON'T PLAY 2017 |
A Play, A Pie and Pint at the Oran Mor |
Written by Annie Caulfield |
|
THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK 2016 |
Edinburgh International Book Festival with Stellar Quines |
stage adaptation by Linda McLean of Alice Munro stories |
|
THE BEAST OF BIRKENSHAW 2015 |
Stirling Crime Festival |
by Marilyn Imrie |
|
FLANN O'BRIEN 2014 |
Strabane Festival |
by Annie Caulfield |
|
WOMAN IN MIND 2014 |
Co-production Dundee Repertory Theatre/Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
by Alan Ayckbourn |
| THE LONG ROAD | Bath Festival |
by Shelagh Stephenson |
| RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY | Bath Festival | |
| TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | Bath Festival |
by Harper Lee Abridged by Marilyn Imrie |
|
HANGED FOR LOVE 2014 |
Bath Festival |
Narrated by Harriet Walter with students from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. A courtroom drama based on the 1922 murder trial of Edith Thompson and Freddie Bywaters |
|
FLANN O'BRIEN 2014 |
Strabane Festival |
by Annie Caulfield |
|
THE FAIR INTELLECTUAL CLUB 2014 |
Lucy Porter at the Assembly Rooms Studio 2 /Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
by Lucy Porter |
| ELSIE AND MAIRI GO TO WAR | Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
by Diane Atkinson |
| LAUDER, FATHER & SON | Scottish Festivals Tour |
by Marilyn Imrie |
| TELLING THE TRUTH BEAUTIFULLY | St Magnus Festival Orkney |
by Duncan Maclean |
|
A WORD WITH DR JOHNSON 2015 |
Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie And a Pint |
by James Runcie |
| THE KING'S KILT | Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie and A Pint |
by Rona Munro |
| THE JAZZ CLUB MURDER | Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie and A Pint |
by James Runcie |
| GUILTY | Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie and A Pint |
by Rona Munro |
| MORTAL MEMORIES | Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie and A Pint |
by Liz Lochhead |
| ASTONISHING ARCHIE | Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie and A Pint |
by Bill Paterson |
| DAPHNIS & CHLOE | Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie and A Pint |
by Hattie Naylor |
| THE BONES BOYS | Glasgow Lunchtime Theatre A Play A Pie and A Pint |
by Colin MacDonald |
