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Dateline:
26th October, 2004
Platforms at the National: November/December
75 years of Faber Drama
The National Theatre celebrates 75 years of Faber and Faber, one of
Britain's most distinguished independent publishers. Faber Drama has
published some of the seminal plays of the twentieth century and to
celebrate their anniversary, the National presents a series of platforms
in which five distinguished Faber playwrights look back at some of their
previous work.
Each platform will include discussion with the playwright and a performed
extract from the chosen play. Afterwards, the playwrights will sign
copies of their work.
David Hare
5 Nov at 6pm in the Lyttelton Theatre
David Hare talks about Plenty, which premiered at the National
in 1978 and went on to become a celebrated film.
Tom Stoppard
10 Nov at 6pm in the Lyttelton Theatre
Tom Stoppard discusses Travesties, which was first produced
by the RSC at the Aldwych in 1974.
Tony Harrison
16 Nov at 6pm in the Cottesloe Theatre
Tony Harrison looks back at two of his plays seen in the Olivier,
The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus - which premiered in Delphi, Greece
in 1988 - and Square Rounds, which was presented at the National
in 1992.
Christopher Hampton
3 Dec at 6pm in the Lyttelton Theatre
Christopher Hampton recalls Tales from Hollywood, which was
first performed at the National in 1983 and recently revived at the
Donmar
Frank McGuinness
6 Dec at 6pm in the Lyttelton Theatre
Frank McGuinness talks about Dolly West's Kitchen which opened
at the Abbey in Dublin in 1999 and transferred to the Old Vic in 2000.
Other Platforms
Bearing Witness
4 November, Cottesloe Theatre, 6pm (45 minutes)
A discussion arising from the themes and subject of Antony Sher's
new adaptation of Primo Levi's If This is a Man.
The participants are Trude Levi, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor
who spent time in Auschwitz, and is an active participant in the Survivors
Speaking programme; Ian Thomson, author of the acclaimed Primo
Levi: A Biography; and Robert Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Italian
literature and cultural history at Cambridge and author of Primo
Levi's Ordinary Virtues. Chaired by Tony Rudolph of the Menard
Press.
In association with the London
Jewish Cultural Centre.
Antony Sher
9 November, Cottesloe Theatre, 6pm (45 minutes)
The actor, writer and artist talks about his work on Primo, as well
as Year of the King, his renowned book about playing the title
role in Richard III which has just been re-released to mark
twenty years since its first publication. Chaired by Sue MacGregor.
Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
19 & 26 November, Cottesloe Theatre, 5.30pm (1 hour)
Rupert Wickham performs his own adaptation of Haffner's memoir of
growing up in pre-war Berlin, exploring how and why the Germans were
seduced by Hitler and the Nazis. Directed by Peter Symonds.
Born in Berlin in 1907, Sebastian Haffner lived through virtually
every major political event in German history from the outbreak of
the First World War in 1914 until his eventual emigration to England
in 1938. Defying Hitler, which Haffner wrote in 1938, is a
chronicle of his life from 1914 to 1933 and of his reflections on
the momentous political events taking place.
Haffner subsequently became a highly-respected journalist and historian,
but, for reasons known only to himself, this manuscript remained unpublished
until his death in 1999. It was left to his son, Oliver Pretzel, to
discover the manuscript among his father's papers, have the book published
in Germany, and subsequently undertake the English translation.
This Platform is performed by kind permission of the author's children,
Oliver Pretzel and Sarah Haffner.
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