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Abridge Too Far?

Dramatic Adapting Workshop with Jane Rogers

FRI 13 NOV
Green Room, 3pm.
Free.

A seminar offering a double-sided perspective on the adaptation process with a novelist who has worked for radio, TV and film, and had the opportunity to adapt her own novels for the screen. Jane will discuss broadly, and in detail, the differences between writing for the page and for the screen, with reference to her own experiences – working with Danny Boyle on Mr Wroe’s Virgins, and more recently with Elizabeth Mitchel and Brek Taylor on Island.

Jane Rogers has written seven novels, including Separate Tracks, Mr Wroe’s Virgins, Her Living Image, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, Promised Lands, winner of the Writers’ Guild Award, Island, and Voyage Home, as well as original television and radio drama. Her short stories were collected in Ellipsis 2 and The New Uncanny (Comma). Her television adaptation of her novel Mr Wroe’s Virgins was nominated for a BAFTA Award. She teaches on the MA writing course at Sheffield Hallam University. Green Room, Work Space

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