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An Experiment with an Air Pump
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768
Written byShelagh Stephenson
CharactersJoseph Fenwick
Susannah Fenwick
Harriet Fenwick
Maria Fenwick
Peter Mark Roget
Thomas Armstrong
Isobel Bridie
Ellen
Tom
Phil
Kate
Date premiered12 February 1998
Place premieredAn Experiment with an Air Pump United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
SubjectScience & Morality
GenreDrama
SettingA house in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1799 & 1999.
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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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