5th June 2004

Camus Estate and Gallimard, Paris give thinktanktheatre go ahead for LíEtranger adaptation.

thinktanktheatre are thrilled to announce that the Camus Estate and Gallimard, Paris have given their kind permission for the company to adapt for the stage Albert Camus’s classic novel L’Etranger. L’Etranger is the story of a man who will not lie. Unmoved by his mother’s death, he refuses to satisfy the feelings of others by pretending grief. At the end of the funeral, he returns to his simple, bachelor existence in sun-bleached Algiers; until he is involved in a violent murder and placed on trial. Will he now, with his life in danger, give in to society’s demands and “play the game”? Albert Camus’s first novel, L’Etranger, received instant acclaim when it was published in 1942 by Gallimard in Paris, and in 1957 he became the youngest writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize. Look out for the world premiere of this brand new adaptation in 2005.

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