The London Bubble Theatre Company is adapting Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan to be a stage production, and they’ll be performing it in “a unique series of ‘promenade style’ performances in South London (UK) parks this summer.”
Marketing Assistant Owen Grafham tells SFScope that Simon Startin (who adapted The Odyssey for them last year) is undertaking this adaptation. “We’re going to be working closely from the original Vonnegut novel and will be fairly faithful to the original plot—there certainly won’t be any alternative endings or anything like that. However, as a work of theatre there will of course be certain adaptations from the novel. What’s most important to us is capturing the classic Vonnegut tone—we’ll be striving hard to make sure that this voice really shines through the production.” The show will run about two hours (including an intermission).
The 40-year-old London Bubble is an internationally acclaimed theatre company who aim to bring accessible, dynamic, and inclusive theatre to the communities of South London. Their mission statement is: “To provide the artistic direction, skills, environment, and resources to create inspirational, inclusive, involving theatre, which shares stories that animate the spaces of the city and the spirits of its citizens.” They employ a fully professional cast of local actors and actresses.
Tickets (available from this page or by calling 020 7237 1663) range from £9 to £16. Performances (which start at 7:30PM) will be at:
Sydenham Wells Park, 24-27 July
Southwark Park, 29 July-1 August
Oxleas Woods, 3-9 August (no show on the 5th)
Hilly Fields Park, 11-14 August
For more information on the show, see this page.
Wikipedia offers this description of the book, Vonnegut’s second published novel, which appeared in 1959 and was nominated for a Hugo Award. Vonnegut died in April 2007 (see this obituary).