Does a writer’s work grow or diminish as it is remade? Does the experience of adapting another’s work change a writer’s approach to adaptations of their own? And is the process of adaptation a collaboration?

Max Porter’s verse novel Grief Is The Thing With Feathers was adapted for the stage to great acclaim, and on the publication day of his second novel, Lanny, in 2019, it was announced that Rachel Weisz would produce and star in the film adaptation. Inua Ellams’ adaptation of Three Sisters, playing at the National Theatre from December 2019 to February 2020, takes Chekhov’s play into 1960s Nigeria and the Biafran war. As part of Fuel theatre company’s 2020 programme, Inua will also be creating an afro-futurist reimagining of the French story The Little Prince. In ‘Remaking the Remarkable’, join Max and Inua to explore the creative afterlives of texts, lives the writer might have imagined – or not.

Venue: Knowledge Centre, British Library
Address: 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
Tickets: £13 / £6.50 / Book here