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Tamara Drewe Preview plus Q&A with Stephen Frears, Posy Simmonds & Alison Owen
Wed 8 September 2010
Adapted from the graphic novel - Tamara Drewe
In associaton with Barbican Cinema
Small-town England is exposed as a hotbed of rivalrous adultery and murderous intrigue in Stephen Frears’ visualisation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Posy Simmonds. Adapted for the screen by playwright-turned-screenwriter Moira Buffini (who we are proud to claim as a graduate of our Writers' Circle training programme and whose name will also shortly be seen on the credits of Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre follow-up Jane Eyre), the film has been shepherded into production by Alison Owen (Elizabeth, Shaun of the Dead) and loses none of the sly wit and sexy shenanigans of Simmonds’ Guardian comic strip along the way.
Hot Brit talent Gemma Arterton (the former ‘Bond girl’ whose career has spanned cinema smash hits from the unashamedly commercial St Trinians, to the startlingly successful no-budget Disappearance of Alice Creed) is Tamara, a glamorous newspaper columnist torn between her rock-star boyfriend and an old flame from the idyllic rural life she thought she had left behind.
We’re delighted to preview Tamara Drewe courtesy of Momentum Pictures followed by an onstage conversation with its director Stephen Frears, producer Alison Owen and graphic novelist Posy Simmonds.
Tickets are on sale now priced from £13-10.50
from www.barbican.org.uk
Tamara Drewe
A preview plus Q&A with Stephen Frears, Posy Simmonds & Alison Owen
Wednesday 8 September at 7pm
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
The City
London
EC2Y 8DS