An Experiment with an Air Pump is a play by British 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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  • An Experiment with an Air Pump is a play by British 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. (en)
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  • An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768 (en)
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  • Joseph Fenwick
    Susannah Fenwick
    Harriet Fenwick
    Maria Fenwick
    Peter Mark Roget
    Thomas Armstrong
    Isobel Bridie
    Ellen
    Tom
    Phil
    Kate (en)
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  • 1998-02-12 (xsd:date)
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  • An Experiment with an Air Pump (en)
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  • A house in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1799 & 1999. (en)
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  • An Experiment with an Air Pump is a play by British 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. (en)
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  • An Experiment with an Air Pump (en)
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