Michael Morpurgo to make special appearance at the Barn Theatre for AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN event
Photo credit: Eve Dunlop
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester have announced that internationally best-selling author Michael Morpurgo will make a special appearance for a post-show Q&A session following the opening night performance of Simon Reade’s critically acclaimed play adaptation of his children’s novel An Elephant in the Garden on 31 August.
The question-and-answer session will see Morpurgo discuss with director and adaptor Simon Reade and star Alison Reid their ongoing relationship as collaborators, the process of bringing Morpurgo’s work to the stage and the trio’s ongoing relationship with the Barn Theatre.
An Elephant in the Garden runs until 11 September, following its critically acclaimed and OnComm Award-nominated digital run earlier in the year. Simon Reade’s adaptation of the beloved Michael Morpurgo children’s novel follows Lizzie, her mother – and an elephant from the zoo in 1945 Dresden, Germany, as they flee the Allied fire-bombing in the endgame of the Second World War.
The question-and-answer session will take place following the 7.30pm opening night performance on 31 August with access to the Q&A event only for ticket holders to the performance.
Michael Morpurgo said: “Back in The Barn! A new beginning beckons for everyone involved with theatre. The Barn has led the way, doing everything that was possible to keep live theatre going during these dire times. Well, dire is over, we hope, over and done with. Plays can play again. Audiences need wait no longer for the show to begin. How they will love it, how we will all love it, to be together again!
“I am looking forward so, so much to being back at The Barn with you for Alison Reade’s bravura solo performance of Simon Reid’s wonderful adaptation of my story An Elephant in the Garden.”
The Poonamallee Productions and Barn Theatre production has design by Max Johns, lighting by Matthew Graham, costumes by Elizabeth De-Tisi, and sound by Jason Barnes.
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