2016

Craig Silvey News 2016.

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January 2, 2016 to February 7, 2016.

The Jasper Jones play was performed at Belvoir St Theatre in Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW (archive 1, archive 2).

There are many photos by Brett Boardman of this production on Belvoir St Theatre's Flickr (archive 1, archive 2). Also check out some of Lisa Tomasetti's photos (archive 1, archive 2).

Watch the Jasper Jones trailer for this production on Belvoir St Theatre's YouTube.

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January 5, 2016.

Christopher Hook writes about the latest stage production of Jasper Jones in The Daily Telegraph. Read the article, "Jasper Jones leaps from the page onto every conceivable stage" (archive 1, archive 2).

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January 5, 2016.

Kate Mulvany discusses adapting Jasper Jones for the stage in Elissa Blake's article, "Kate Mulvany on why she turned to readers when adapting Craig Silvey's Jasper Jones," in the Sydney Morning Herald. An extract from the article:

Silvey [...] gave Mulvany a free hand when it came to expanding on some of the supporting characters he had written. "There were moments in the book where I wanted to delve deeper, especially with the female characters and their journeys," Mulvany says. "Craig agreed that maybe he hadn't gone deep enough, so he allowed me to go for it. It's important to me that people know they are getting Craig's book and also a Kate Mulvany play."

The article also includes a mini Q&A with Craig Silvey. (Archive 1, archive 2.)

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January 7, 2016.

Read a review by Diana Simmonds of the Belvoir St Theatre production of Jasper Jones (archive 1, archive 2).

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January 8, 2016.

Watch a five minute video about the Belvoir St Theatre production of Jasper Jones. The video includes interviews with Craig Silvey, actor Guy Simon, director Anne-Louise Sarks, playwright Kate Mulvany, and actor Tom Conroy. The video was by Monique Schafter for the ABC.

Check out Monique Schafter's article for the ABC, "Jasper Jones, novel dubbed Australia's To Kill a Mockingbird, jumps from page to stage" (archive 1, archive 2).

Also read Brigid Delaney's article for The Guardian, "Belvoir's Jasper Jones proves the enduring appeal of coming-of-age stories" (archive 1, archive 2).

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January 11, 2016.

Delia Bartle writes for Limelight Magazine, Australia's classical music and arts magazine, about the two 2016 stage productions of Jasper Jones and the film adaptation. Read the article, "Jasper Jones hits stage and screen in 2016" (archive 1, archive 2).

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January 25, 2016.

The upcoming Jasper Jones film appears on a prestigious "Australian movies coming in 2016" list (archive 1, archive 2). Read more about the film.

Above: Aaron McGrath plays Jasper Jones and Levi Miller plays Charlie Bucktin in the Jasper Jones film. Photo credit: Madman Entertainment (source).

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February 1, 2016.

Currency Press have just come out with Kate Mulvey's adaptation of Jasper Jones. Get the book from Currency Press, Kobo, or Amazon. View it on Goodreads. Also check out Kate on Twitter.

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February 26, 2016.

Jasper Jones appears on the Australian Geographic's "12 books every Australian should read" list by Anna Vallen (archive 1, archive 2).

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July 18, 2016.

Read an interview with Kate Mulvany about the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Jasper Jones, which is being performed in August and September, 2016. (Archive 1, archive 2.)

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July 27, 2016.

Read about Craig Silvey ideas behind writing Jasper Jones, as published by the Melbourne Theatre Company. (Archive 1, archive 2.)

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July 28, 2016.

Watch the remarkable creative process behind bringing Corrigan to life on stage: "Jasper Jones, From Page to Stage."

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July 29, 2016.

Craig Silvey, playwright Kate Mulvany, and director Sam Strong talk with Sonia Harford for The Age. Read the article, "Jasper Jones comes to MTC in a joyous experience for author Craig Silvey" (archive 1, archive 2).

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August 8, 2016.

Read the Wheeler Centre's interview, “Craig Silvey on Adapting Jasper Jones" (archive 1, archive 2). Here's an extract:

[Interviewer:] This will be the third theatre production of Jasper Jones and there’s also a film production in the works. Have you struggled at any point to entrust your work to different people? What have you learned along the way?

[Craig Silvey:] One of the most important things I have learned as a writer is that once your novel hits the shelf, it’s not yours anymore. It’s a public object. By lending a book their time and imagination, a reader earns the right to make it their own. I’m not precious about the diversity of interpretations people bring to the book, it’s something I celebrate. So an extension of that is this remarkable opportunity to have the novel produced by three separate companies, in vastly different ways. It makes me so proud and excited, there’s no room to feel cautious.

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August 19, 2016.

Listen to Craig Silvey, Kate Mulvany (playwright), Taylor Ferguson (actor), and Nicholas Denton (actor) discuss Jasper Jones, the play, on ABC Radio with Sarah Kanowski.

Source 1 (archive 1) and source 2 (archive 2).

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August 25, 2016.

Read the Guardian's review of the upcoming Jasper Jones movie, "Spielberg meets Stranger Things in Australian coming-of-age tale" (archive 1, archive 2). Read more about the film.