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finboroughforum
Monday, 22 October 2007
THE NOVEL ON STAGE: ADAPTATION OR BASTARDISATION?
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):
Chris Campbell – Literary Assistant at the National Theatre
Ian Shuttleworth – Theatre Critic of the Financial Times and editor of Theatre Record.
Rachel Wagstaff – Playwright (work includes adaptation of Paulo Coehlo's Veronika Decides to Die at the Arcola, and subsequent novel adaptation commissions)
TBC – hopefully a novelist!
Future finboroughforum events will be held on:
Monday, 19 November 2007 at 7.30pm: Does Musical Theatre Matter?
Sunday, 16 December 2007 at 7.30pm: TBC
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
Andrew Haydon on email or 07810 126 265
Neil McPherson on email or 07977 173135
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118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED Telephone +44 (0)20 7244 7439 Fax +44 (0)20 7835 1853
e-mail www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk Artistic Director Neil McPherson
The Finborough Theatre is managed by The Steam Industry. Registered in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee, no. 3448268.
Registered Charity no. 1071304. Registered address: 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED. A member of the Independent Theatre Council.