Reading Group with David Eldridge
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
Tuesday 15 January 2013, 12.30-14.00, Room 112, Gordon Square David Eldridge, Lecturer in Creative Writing, is a distinguished playwright, who has had numerous productions in film, theatre, television and radio. To name just a few: his play The Market Boy ran at the National Theatre in 2006; Under the Blue Sky was revived in 2008 at the Duke of York's Theatre; and The Knot of the Heart played at the Almeida in 2011. His adaptation of Festen transferred from the Almeida to the West End and Broadway. And, just this year, In Basildon was directed at the Royal Court by Dominic Cooke, and the Royal Exchange Theatre presented his new version of Miss Julie by Strindberg, starring Maxine Peake.
David is currently writing a 90 minute drama for BBC2, based Hallie Rubenhold's Lady Worsley's Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. David's treatment for the BBC was the set text for this reading group, but if anyone would also like to read the book, here are the details
Contact name:
Ann Lewis