Programme Details

Anthony Sher talks to Susan Hitch about playing Primo Levi on the stage at the National Theatre. Levi's powerful memoir documenting his time in Auschwitz, If This is a Man, has become one of the definitive accounts of the Holocaust. Sher talks about the challenge of adapting it for his one man show which opens this week.

Writer Michele Roberts remembers Francoise Sagan - the French novelist who died at the weekend and whose Bonjour Tristesse, written at the age of 18, inspired a generation.

And, as the opening punches are thrown in the first of three Presidential debates, one of America's leading literary theorists, Stanley Fish, delivers his verdict on George W. Bush and John Kerry's respective performances, rhetoric and ability to present ideas.


Presenter: Susan Hitch
Producer: Mohit Bakaya


Additional Details:

Primo
Based on If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
adapted by Antony Sher
At the National's Cottesloe Theatre in Rep until 1st December 2004

Gregor Schneider
From 2nd October 2004, Die Familie Schneider will take up residence in neighbouring identical houses in London's East End.
Commissioned and produced by Artangel in association with Kunststiftung Nordrhein-Westphalia and with the support of The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation,The Henry Moore Foundation, The Moose Foundation for the Arts, IFA and the Company of Angels.

Die Familie Schneider is not suitable for children under 16 years old
For further information and to book a visit
please call 07981 578754 or 07981 578755.

Tickets £9.00 for a double ticket or concessionary price £7.00