Rights Enquiries
We represent the worldwide film, tv and stage rights to Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories. For information please see below or email us for further information on info@fillinghamweston.com
We also licence the rights to a number of plays and musicals for professional and amateur productions in the UK and internationally. If you are interested in the rights to a play or musical listed here or a work in our clients’ biography, please email us on the links or direct to info@fillinghamweston.com
Please note that a licence must be acquired before the start of rehearsals and before any production can be confirmed or publicised.
Under copyright law no performance may be given either in its entirety or in the form of excerpts whether or not any admission charge is made without the prior written consent of the owner of the copyright (or his/her accredited agent).
BOOK TO SCREEN
Enquire about rights to novels and short stories
ROSE TREMAIN
Rose Tremain is the author of fifteen novels, five collections of short stories, a short story on Audible, and a memoir of her childhood. Her work has been published in 30 countries. Rose was awarded a Damehood in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to writing. Rose’s latest novel ABSOLUTELY & FOREVER was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Historical Novel Prize and she is currently writing a new novel of the upcoming film based on her short story THE HOUSEKEEPER.
All Rose’s books can be found here.
Awards/nominations for Rose’s books include:
ROSE TREMAIN
Award-winning writer Rose Tremain is the author of fifteen novels, five collections of short stories and a memoir of her childhood. Her work has been published in 27 countries. Rose was awarded a Damehood in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to writing.
All Rose’s books can be found here.
The Gustav Sonata, National Jewish Book Award, USA (fiction category) (2016); South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award; shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, the Walter Scott Prize, the Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Baileys Prize (all 2017)
Merivel: A Man of His Time, the sequel to Restoration, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize (2013) and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize (2012)
The Road Home, Orange Broadband Prize (2008)
The Colour, shortlisted for the Orange Prize (2004)
Music & Silence, Whitbread Novel of the Year Award (1999)
Sacred Country, James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992) and Prix Fémina Étranger, France (1994)
| 2017 | Won: South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award. Shortlisted for: the Costa Novel Award, the Walter Scott Prize, the Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Baileys Prize. |
| 2016 | Won: National Jewish Book Award, USA (fiction category) |
| 2013 | Won: the sequel to Restoration, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. |
| 2012 | Won: the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. |
| 2008 | Won: Orange Broadband Prize. |
| 2004 | Shortlisted for: the Orange Prize. |
| 1999 | Won: Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. |
| 1992 | Won: James Tait Black Memorial Prize. |
NICHOLA McAULIFFE
Nichola McAuliffe’s novels are THE CRIME TSAR, based loosely on Macbeth and A FANNY FULL OF SOAP, a comic novel about the pre-West End run of a stage musical, plus a children’s story, ATTILA, LOOLAGAX AND THE EAGLE.
Contact us about the stage rights for Nichola’s award winning play MAURICE’S JUBILEE.
THE CRIME TSAR
Police Chief Constable Tom Shackleton is ambitious to reach the top of his profession, but no one is more ambitious for his future than his wife. Jenni Shackleton looks every inch the consort to a powerful man. Striking and groomed to gleam in any crowd, she is connected through her own job in journalism to the right people to further Tom’s career – or so she thinks. She is also unscrupulous: Jenni Shackleton will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Threads of classical tragedy run through this modern drama of power, cunning sex and ambition. Nichola McAuliffe directs it all with style, skill and at a thunderous pace.
MUSICALS
Please enquire about licensing musicals and your preferred cast size.
Some examples:
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE book & lyrics by Teresa Howard, music by Steven Edis
Based on the classic novel by Dodie Smith, the musical premiered in 2017 at Watford Palace Theatre and toured to Buxton Opera House and Oxford Playhouse.
Set in the Bohemian England of the 1930s, Dodie Smith’s worldwide bestselling classic is a warm and sharply funny coming-of-age story.
The script by Teresa Howard tells the story through the eyes of seventeen-year-old narrator Cassandra, opening with the famous line: ‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink..’
The original music by composer Steven Edis has influences of swing, tango, beguine, English folksong and a hint of Cole Porter.
Cast of 9
KORCZAK book & lyrics by Nick Stimson, music by Chris Williams
A musical drama that tells the story of Dr Janusz Korczak and the children and young people in his orphanage and their eventual deaths in the gas chambers at Treblinka in 1943. Performed at The Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames and in Poland and on European Tour.
Performed at The Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames by youth company BYMT and in Poland, Wroclaw (2016), and Opera I Filharmonia Podlaska in Poland (under the auspices of UNESCO), which was voted the most important historical event in Poland and won the Jan Kiepura Award for Best Theatrical Performance in 2012. The musical has also been produced on European Tour and in amateur productions.
Perfect for a large cast
THE SUNSHINE GANG by Annemarie Lewis Thomas & Nick Stimson
An original musical comedy, based on the life of a haphazard ENSA troop just before another bombing. The music is a pastiche of the 1940 war songs including numbers reminiscent of the Andrews Sisters, a Vera Lynn-like ballad. Along with uplifting, heart-warming songs.
Cast of 15+
Annemarie Lewis Thomas and Nick Stimson have written further musicals available for licensing including the following all produced in London previously CELEBS ANON (2011), THE BALLAD OF KITTY JAY (2013), JUST THE TICKET (2014) and THE VENUS FACTOR (2015).
PANTOMIMES
We represent a selection of original book and music pantomimes so please enquire with details of your preferred cast size.
RAB HOOD AND THE SHERIFF OF SHETTLESTON by Morag Fullarton
An adult pantomime with multiple 4 & 5★ reviews during Christmas 2022
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“Writer and director Morag Fullarton commands foul language and crass humour with an ability to weave them so well through a traditional pantomime aesthetic. But this isn’t the only ‘adult’ feature of the production; the political wit Fullarton ripostes throughout is sharp and cutting, effective as a face-on stab at the current state of affairs.” CORR BLIMEY ★★★★ |
“In Morag Fullarton’s Rab Hood And The Sheriff Of Shettleston, at Oran Mor, the absence of slushy romance is both complete and necessary, as the show pursues its annual mission to celebrate that strand of pantomime that mocks the mighty, and to give bourgeois sentimentality the bum’s rush.” THE SCOTSMAN ★★★★ |
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“Writer and director Morag Fullarton commands foul language and crass humour with an ability to weave them so well through a traditional pantomime aesthetic. But this isn’t the only ‘adult’ feature of the production; the political wit Fullarton ripostes throughout is sharp and cutting, effective as a face-on stab at the current state of affairs.” CORR BLIMEY ★★★★ |
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“In Morag Fullarton’s Rab Hood And The Sheriff Of Shettleston, at Oran Mor, the absence of slushy romance is both complete and necessary, as the show pursues its annual mission to celebrate that strand of pantomime that mocks the mighty, and to give bourgeois sentimentality the bum’s rush.” THE SCOTSMAN ★★★★ |
PLAYS
Please enquire about our large selection of plays with your cast size.
A popular play suitable for performance in any venue:
MY BIG FAT COWPAT WEDDING by Sayan Kent
A fun celebration of a mixed marriage between a girl from the country and a lad from the city; a light-hearted exploration of relationships across the divides of rural/urban, race and gender. Performed on two UK tours and at Soho Theatre Elsewhere, mainly in site-specific locations such as church and community halls with Kali Theatre Company/Black Country Touring 2014 & 2016).
Used as a test case by ACE for successful rural touring
READ TEST CASE
Cast of 4 (or up to 21)