Adapt + Collaborate

Presented by Penzance Literary Festival.

Nick Bamford (director) discusses with and Mary J Oliver (author) the processes involved in adaptation: such as, making a book into a stage play and updating or changing the social context. The session will be illustrated by performed extracts from Nick Bamford’s play Come Out Fighting.

NICK BAMFORD (Director)
After Oxford University Nick joined the BBC and became a Producer in TV.

Following a Director’s Attachment at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School he worked as a freelance TV Producer/Director whilst also producing and directing theatre.
He was Senior Lecturer in TV Production at Bournemouth University where he completed a PhD entitled Emancipating Madame Butterfly: Intention and Practice in Adapting and Queering a Text, then joined Falmouth University where he remains an Associate Lecturer, whilst setting up a new theatre company – What Now Productions – to produce a contemporary gay version of Carmen, entitled Come Out Fighting.
www.nickbamford.com
Publications:
Directing Television: a professional survival guide.
Chapter in: Queer Adaptation
Sea Change (a novel)

*MARY J. OLIVER (Author)
A visual artist, with an MA in Fine Art, Mary taught at Falmouth University, and has exhibited across England and Scotland. Her fictionalised memoir, Jim Neat, was published by Seren in 2019. She lives in Newlyn and runs workshops involving the integration of text and image at North Cornwall Book Festival, Penzance LitFest, Hypatia Trust and Morrab Library. She also loves mentoring students, face-to-face and online.
www.serenbooks.com/author/mary-j-oliver
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