Creative Conversations:Scribbles to Scripts with Marcy Kahan
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- Date
- Archive Event
- Time
- 2.00pm - 4.00pm
- Venue
- Noel Coward Archive
- Type
- Creative Conversation
Marcy Kahan is an award-winning playwright and has written extensively for the BBC. She uses journals for every project she works on. In this intimate session, Marcy will talk about her love of notebooks for collating research, planning, and focusing the writing process.
The Noel Coward Archive contains 48 notebooks that Coward created in the early years of his career – an invaluable glimpse into the mind of one of Britain’s favourite playwrights. As part of this session, Marcy will give a short talk about Coward, his social context, writing process and his own use of notebooks. A fantastic opportunity for members to leaf through the scribbles that became world-famous scripts!
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Biography
Marcy Kahan trained in theatre in Paris with the LeCoq School teachers, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux. Her screenplay, Antonia and Jane, starring Imelda Staunton, Saskia Reeves and Bill Nighy, won the Gold Plaque Award at the 1991 Chicago Film Festival.
Her stage work includes Twenty Cigarettes (Soho Theatre), When Harry Met Sally (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) and the Perrier-award-winning Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist (Edinburgh Festival and Donmar Theatre). She has written 39 original plays for BBC Radio, including five series of Lunch: a Platonic romantic comedy (2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy) and a sextet of plays about her hero, Noël Coward. Marcy’s BBC Radio dramatisations include E.M. Forster’s A Room With A View [2023]; P.G. Wodehouse’s Psmith in the City; Tolstoy’s War and Peace (with Mike Walker; 1998 Talkie award for Best Drama); Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Wizard of Oz.