Join acclaimed film/TV scriptwriter and children’s author David Farr (The Night Manager, Hanna, The Book of Stolen Dreams) as he talks to journalist Suzi Feay about his work and the family experience that inspired much of his work; the flight of his jewish great aunt and uncle from Nazi Germany in the 1930’s
David Farr is the screenwriter behind the BAFTA-winning adaptation of The Night Manager and the action thriller Hanna, and a former Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company. His theatrical background includes co-founding Cambridge Talking Tongues theatre company with Rachel Weisz while at university, where their ‘poor theatre’ aesthetic won the Guardian Student Drama Award at Edinburgh Fringe in 1991.