Tangent Talk: Jack Maggs

Get the story behind the story with our Tangent Talk event at the State Library of South Australia. Step back in time to 19th-century London, where intrigue and mystery mix in the world premiere of JACK MAGGS. Peter Carey’s best-selling and Miles Franklin Award-winning “reworking” of Charles Dickens’ canonical novel Great Expectations, Jack Maggs comes alive on stage in a sweeping new adaptation by South Australian playwright Samuel Adamson, renowned for his successes at England’s National Theatre with Southwark Fair and The Light Princess with Tori Amos.

Before you see the show, join us for a drink and discussion about the themes of the show in, ‘Dickens, Carey and Adamson: Literary Legacies and Adaptation’. We’re joined by an insightful panel, including, Dr. Maggie Tonkin from Uni of Adelaide, PhD Candidate Dante DeBono from UniSA, actor and star of our upcoming production of JACK MAGGS Mark Saturno and playwright and poet Verity Laughton. Hosted by Artistic Director Mitchell Butel, our panel will share their thoughts on literary adaptations and the works of Dickens, Carey and Adamson.

Date: Monday, 28 October 2024

Time: 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start.

Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre
Institute Building, State Library of South Australia
North Terrace, Adelaide 5000

Tickets: $10 including a wine from SC Pannell

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Mark Saturno

Mark Saturno is an award-winning actor who trained at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, Shakespeare and Co. in Massachusetts and completed a Diploma in Performance Art at Adelaide Centre for the Arts (AC Arts). Mark is set to play the lead in State Theatre Co. South Australia’s World Premiere of Jack Maggs by Samuel Adamson. In 2023 he appeared in Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia? at Sydney Theatre Company and State Theatre Co. South Australia. He also will appear in the Adelaide
Film Festival world premiere of the feature, Kangaroo Island.
 

 
Verity Laughton

Verity is an Australian playwright and poet. Her 30+ produced works have been seen in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, the UK, and the USA. They include mainstage adult dramas, adaptations, plays for children and families, radio plays, a promenade community event, and a musical. Awards include the Griffin Prize (2001); the Inscription Prize (2009) and two AWGIES for Community and Radio Drama (2004). Nominations include the NSW Premier’s Award (2012); the STC Patrick White Award (2015), the Griffin Prize (2006); two AWGIES (2008); the Rodney Seaborn Prize (in 2007 and 2013); the Blake Poetry Prize (2011) and the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize (2014). In 2023 her YA fantasy novel was nominated for the Text Unpublished YA Manuscript Award, and she won the Silver Tree Poetry Award. Recent productions include Long Tan (Brink Productions) and The Red Cross Letters (State Theatre Company South Australia). Her plays are published with Currency Press, Five Senses Press, and the ASC. She has written for TV and video, as well as articles, reviews, and poems in publications such as the Australian Book Review, Best Australian Poems 2016, and The Griffith Review. She completed a PhD in the political theatre of trauma at Flinders University in 2020. Current work includes the SAFC-funded development of a film, Flatlands, with director Matthew Thorne; the publication of a book of poetry, Snake, with UK-based signalhouseditions and a song cycle based on a reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. She is a member of the 7-ON group of playwrights.
 

 
Dante DeBono

Dante DeBono is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia with the goal of promoting social inclusivity and equality through work focussed on diversifying queer representation in research and creative outputs. Her current thesis is focused on the queer potential of revisionist adaptations in fiction through screenwriting-based practice-led research that has seen the development of a queered modernisation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. You can find some of her creative writing in Green: A Blue Feet Anthology (2022) published by Buon-Cattivi Press.
 

 
Dr Maggie Tonkin

Maggie Tonkin is a Senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, where she teaches nineteenth and twentieth century literary studies, and researches contemporary writing and contemporary dance. She has taught Dickens to undergraduates for longer than she cares to remember, but despite this ongoing trauma, her admiration for his imaginative exuberance, over the top theatricality and manic narrative energy is undimmed.