When you hear that your favorite book or movie has been “optioned” for a film or television mini-series, you may feel both elation and dread.  Anytime a book is being adapted for stage, screen, or some other performing arts medium, change is inevitable.  And it is this change that fans of particular titles abhor and resent from Hollywood.  When occurrences or characters absent the original story appear (Minority Report, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Legends of Earthsea) or a successful book fails as a film (Timeline, Queen of the Damned), the go-to excuse is “Books rarely translate well…”; but if this were the case, why do Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and The X-Men films continue to succeed at the box office?

These questions are answered with interest in From Page to Stage, a workshop in adapting literature for the performing arts from Lani Tupu and Tee Morris.

Lani Tupu (Captain Crais and the voice of Pilot from Farscape) and Tee Morris (author of MOREVI and Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword) bring their collected experiences as actors and writers together for the workshop From Page to Stage, a look into one of the toughest aspects of entertainment: adapting published works for stage, film, or radio. This interactive two-hour seminar will take its participants through the process of written work being adapted for stage. Ending with a candid and honest discussion on when things work or when writers get lost in translation, From Page to Stage gives you an idea of what to expect on the road between published work and blockbuster movie.

Perhaps you have explored the Uncharted Territories with Lani Tupu, or traversed The Rift to the fantasy realm of Morevi with Tee Morris. Now take a journey of a different kind with both of them as actor and author take you From Page to Stage.

If you would like to book From Page to Stage for your school, library, SF/F/H convention, or writer's group, e-mail Jean Orrico of Peachtree Services at peachtreellc@msn.com
for available dates and booking arrangements.