MEMORY by our award winning playwright
MEMORY by our award winning playwright, Jonathan Lichtenstein (represented by Gemma Hirst) has now opened to rave reviews at The Pleasance. It has been The Sunday Times's pick of the best of what's on Critical List in Culture section for two weeks running:
"This deeply moving play by Jonathan Lichtenstein is about exclusion and persecution; how Germans, Jews and Arabs harass or destroy other people and their own. Fearless, even-handed, impressively acted." - The Sunday Times
"Jonathan Lichtenstein's 90-minute play cannot be faulted for ambition, epic scope or meditaitive daring...grand and challenging." - Evening Standard
"Jonathan Lichtenstein's tale of two walls and two ethnic calamities packs plenty of power." - The Times
"An innovative thought provoker that draws in the audience and enthrals" - The Jewish Telegraph (on the Off Westend page)
The American Future: A History Episode Four
In the final part of his acclaimed BBC 2 series The American Future: A History Simon Schama looks at America’s conflicted view of immigration. Who should be allowed to enter America and call themselves American has always been one of the nation’s most divisive issues. The early settlers were themselves immigrants, but they saw America as fundamentally a white, Protestant nation.
The key events that challenged this view were the annexation of parts of Mexico in 1848 that made 100,000 non-whites American citizens; the immigration and subsequent expulsion of the Chinese in the late 19th century; and the massive immigration from Eastern Europe during the industrialisation of the 1920s. Each time, many have insisted America must stay white if it's to stay true to itself, and each time they've been defeated by the sheer force of history. John F Kennedy defined America as a nation of immigrants in 1964, and Simon argues that the candidacy of Barack Obama represents the final triumph of the vision of America as a multi-ethnic nation.
The American Future: A History episode 4 will be shown on BBC this Friday at 9pm.
New William Trevor novel sold globally
New William Trevor novel sold globally
William Trevor's first novel since his 2002 Booker-shortlisted The Story of Lucy Gault has been sold to Viking UK and Viking Penguin US. Love and Summer is a quietly searing story of longed-for love, set in a small Irish village, and shows William Trevor at the height of his powers. For more information please contact Marcella Edwards at medwards@pfd.co.uk
Simon Schama's The American Future: A History
The third part of Simon Schama's series The American Future will air this Friday at 9pm on BBC2. It sees Professor Schama explore the relationship between faith and politics in America. For the first time in a generation, the Democratic Party is claiming to be the party of God and it is Obama, not McCain who draws strength and inspiration from his faith. Religion has been seen as a convervative force in American politics for a long time but Professor Schama shows that it has been a powerful engine for change and played an important part in America's fight for freedom. Click here for further information from the BBC.
The Boy From Baby House 10
Annabel Merullo has sold world rights for The Boy From Baby House 10, by Alan Philps and John Lahutsky, to Michael Famini at St Martin's Press. The Boy From Baby House 10 is John Lahutsky’s inspiring true story, written by Philps, the former foreign editor of the London Daily Telegraph, of being born premature in Russia, consigned to an almost certain death amid the deplorable conditions of the Russian orphanage system and, then, rescued miraculously by a single mother in the United States who gave him a home and helped him to grow into a successful American high school student. Italian rights have been pre-empted by Piemme. We have also received several approaches from film production companies.
PFD launches a new blog, "Read All About It"
"Read All About It" is the exciting new blog from Peters Fraser and Dunlop. It is a space where our writers can sound off about the issues that interest them the most. Current contributors include PFD's Chairman, Andrew Neil, and PFD clients, G. P. Taylor and Charles Nevin, with many more to come.
To read Andrew's latest blog on the state of the economy and Gordon Brown's management of it please click here.
PFD host Simon Schama Dinner
PFD celebrated the release of Simon Schama's latest work, The American Future: A history, with a dinner in his honour. The event, held during the Frankfurt Book Fair at the prestigious Steingenberger Frankfurter Hof, was a massive success.
Attended by all of Simon's publishers from across the globe and host of journalists, the was a fitting tribute to an author whose award-winning work has spanned across four decades.
NEW ONLINE DRAMA NEON CANDY BY KATIE DOUGLAS LAUNCHES TODAY
Hat Trick's multimedia and drama departments have teamed up to produce it's first online drama, commisisoned by Ford's media company MindShare.
The new series Neon Candy launched online today to support Ford's 'this is now' campaign. Katie Douglas has penned the entire series. Katie is an prize-winning TV and theatre writer, whose multiple credits include Secret Diary of a Call Girl, After You've Gone, MI High, as well as various exciting new original projects which are in development.
Watch the first episode of the new series here
The American Future: A History
"Cogently argued, deeply informed, expressed with passionate eloquence and illustrated with astounding footage, this is television at its best." The Times
"....One of the finest programmes I have seen this year: winning, erudite, accessible, scary." The Observer
The American Future : A History by Simon Schama
Shot against the backdrop of the 2008 Presidential election, Simon Schama digs deep into the conflicts of American history to understand what is at stake right now.
Episode One: American Plenty
BBC2 9pm Friday 10th October repeated 7pm Sunday 12 October