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finboroughforum
Monday, 30 July 2007-
THEATRE AND THE OLYMPICS: VALUE FOR MONEY?
finboroughforum is a monthly discussion forum, bringing artistic practitioners and voices from various other disciplines together to challenge the practice and meaning of theatre. Encouraging dialogue across all art forms, finboroughforum aims to be an accessible and non-pretentious opportunity to exchange opposing viewpoints as well as a birthplace for new collaborations. The forum is deliberately designed so that the audience actively participate in the discussion from the beginning.
“Utterly unpretentious, hugely entertaining and totally accessible to all…You will find yourself…sitting hunched with delight as writer/performer Jack Klaff chairs 4-minute opening salvos from a panel of practitioners followed by the floor being thrown well and truly open to a lively exchange of views between audience and panellists.”
Sofie Mason, OffWestEnd.com
Chaired by Jack Klaff
Jack Klaff is a writer/performer. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and at Starlab, a Brussels-based think tank. He edits Shebang, a science and culture magazine, is helping establish Frontier TV and has written and presented for all media. Jack’s recent stage appearances have been as the Blind Man in Carver, as Claudius, as Toby Belch, as the Cardinal in The Representative and as Bohr in Copenhagen. Other credits include RSC and West End seasons, Star Wars, For Your Eyes Only, King David, Vanity Fair, Road Rage and Last Duel. His one-man shows have won several awards.
The panellists will include, subject to availability:
Mark O’Thomas
Mark is Director of IPAD (Institute for the Performing Arts Development) at the University of East London, whose campuses sit in the hub of London’s new Olympic zone. As a playwright, Mark has had plays produced by Soho Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Birmingham Rep and Bristol Old Vic. He also works as a script advisor and translator for the Royal Court Theatre, which has produced and published a number of his translations. Mark is on the board of UEL’s London East Research Institute commissioned by the Greater London Authority to write the report Lasting Legacy for London? Assessing the Legacy of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. He is also on the board of the East End musical hall theatre Hoxton Hall and is the Creative Director for the recently established East London Theatre Archive project. His show about the life of Chet Baker premieres at the London Jazz Festival in November.
Emma Stenning
Emma Stenning is Head of Theatre for Arts Council England, London, a position she has held since January 2007. Previously, over the past two years, Emma worked flexibly between a Fellowship with the Clore Leadership Programme, as a Cultural Ceremonies Advisor with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, and as Executive Producer with her production company Schtanhaus, in partnership with Tom Morris, working primarily in mid scale touring and on commission from the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the Complete Works Festival.
From 2002–2005, Emma was Executive Director of BAC, through 2001 was administrator at Complicite delivering world tours of Mnemonic and The Noise of Time, and from 1999–2000 was producer at Oxford Stage Company (now Headlong).
Emma has been a Trustee of the Royal and Derngate in Northhampton, was recipient of a Stage One producer’s Bursary, and is a graduate of both the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Programme for Not for Profit Leadership in the Arts, and Common Purpose 20:20.
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Nick Sweeting
Starting a freelance career with a short spell at the Chicago International Theatre Festival in 1993, Nick worked with a broad range of national and international companies, including the David Glass Ensemble, Phoenix Dance, LipService, Wierzalin Theatre (Poland), Nada Theatre (France) and Mouthpeace (South Africa). Since the mid 1990’s he has played a key role in the development of Told by an Idiot and Stan’s Café. In 1995 he co-founded Improbable and over the last few years has concentrated more and more on his work there, as they tour more widely, working in collaboration with a series of key presenting partners in Europe and North America.
Future finboroughtalktheatre events will be held on:
Monday, 24 September 2007 at 7.30pm: What’s in a Name? Theatre and Celebrity
Monday, 22 October 2007 at 7.30pm: The Novel on Stage: Adaptation or bastardisation?
Monday, 19 November 2007 at 7.30pm: Does Musical Theatre Matter?
Monday, 17 December 2007 at 7.30pm TBA
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Finborough Theatre, The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Box Office 0870 4000 838 www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk
All events begin at 7.30pm
Tickets £2 all seats
For more information, please contact
Marie Bobin on email or 07951 630018
Neil McPherson on email or 07977 173135
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