The PowerBook
From a novel by Jeanette Winterson
devised by Jeanette Winterson, Deborah Warner & Fiona Shaw To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself I stay on the run… It’s night, I’m sitting at my screen, there’s an e-mail for me. I unwrap it. It says -- Freedom just for one night…ON LOVE
Enter the story as yourself - leave it as someone else. This is an invented world… A collaboration on Jeanette Winterson’s most recent novel, The PowerBook, exploring the boundaries between fiction and theatre.
Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw’s stage work together includes Medea, The Wasteland, Richard II, Footfalls, Hedda Gabler and Electra. Jeanette Winterson’s books include Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body. Saffron Burrows' film work includes Miss Julie and Enigma.
Find out more about Jeanette Winterson on her website, at www.jeanettewinterson.com
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The PowerBook finished on: 4 June 2002
