ADAPT ABILITY – THE ART OF ADAPTATION

​The best adaptations are not rewrites but reinventions. 

Whether you adapt your own work or someone else's, in this workshop you can learn how to transform material from one medium to another, creating an original new work that is also faithful to the spirit of its source.

Successful adaptation requires you to stay in touch with the material's origins, but also to make it entirely your own - because if you're not doing your own best, inspired, original work, you're not doing your job.

The secret of adapting your own material is treat it as someone else's work. It's often harder to adapt your own material than another person's. For one thing, the original writer is always there, giving you a hard time. 

But whatever the source of the material you're adapting, you can use the same key steps and techniques to produce a unique new work that evolves naturally from its predecessor and takes it a step further on its creative journey.

INCLUDED IN THE COURSE

• Understanding what each medium does best – and what it doesn't.
• Why you should take liberties to liberate the story.
• The secret door - how to access the story a new way.
• What a good adaptation can add to the original.
• The most common errors of bad adaptations.

​Please note, places are strictly limited: this is a workshop based on exercises, participation and personal feedback, not a lecture.

VENUE
PROSPECT HOUSE
​8 Leake Street 
London
SE1 7NN
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Nearest tube: Waterloo

DATE
17 May 2019
10.30am - 5pm

PRICE
£99 Full price
£85 Concessions
£80 Special BECTU member price

We offer the concessionary rate to all Concessions as well as to members of these affiliated organisations.  If you are a member of one of these organisations, please book at the concessionary rate and bring evidence of membership to the course.

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EVENT CAPACITY
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FURTHER DETAILS
Email or phone:  07958 244656

​PAUL BASSETT DAVIES
is a highly experienced writer, director and actor.  He founded Crystal Theatre, whose pioneering multimedia work was acclaimed in Britain and Europe.  He created a series of one-man shows, two of which were Perrier Award finalists at the Edinburgh Festival, and adapted them for BBC radio. He has also adapted one of his short stories, 'Tommy the Voice' into a radio drama, adapted the children's TV series 'The Magic Roundabout' into a feature animation film, and transformed his own radio sitcom into a stage show.

Paul's latest novel, 'Dead Writers in Rehab' was published recently and is now available at bookshops and HERE.

His first book, 'Utter Folly' ("A very funny novel'" - Jack Dee) is available on Amazon HERE.