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Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Seance on a Wet Afternoon
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Seance on a Wet Afternoon Bryan Forbes , ( dir. Bryan Forbes ) United Kingdom (UK) : Beaver Films , 1964 7878966 1964 single work film/TV

'Plans go awry when a fake spirit medium kidnaps a young child as a publicity stunt.'

Source: BFI (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/529527/). (Sighted: 26/9/2014)

form y separately published work icon Kôrei Séance Tetsuya Onishi , Kiyoshi Kurosawa , ( dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa ) Japan : Kansai Telecasting Twins Japan , 2000 7879478 2000 single work film/TV

An adaptation of Seance on a Wet Afternoon, but one that puts a supernatural spin on events.

y separately published work icon Seance on a Wet Afternoon Stephen Schwartz , Stephen Schwartz (composer), 2009 2009 7879615 2009 single work musical theatre opera

An adaptation of Mark McShane's novel Seance on a Wet Afternoon.

Notes

  • Filmed in 1964. Also filmed in 2000 as as a Japanese-language feature film, Korei.
  • Prequel to Seance for Two.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Cassell ,
      1961 .
      Extent: 171p.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Doubleday ,
      1962 .
      Alternative title: Seance
      Extent: 189p.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Pan ,
      1963 .
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Fawcett Crest ,
      1965 .
      image of person or book cover 3438348255076744413.jpg
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      Extent: 128p.
      ISBN: 0881846155
Alternative title: Spiele fur einen heisen Nachmittag
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Wilhelm Heyne ,
      1969 .
      image of person or book cover 3799406143374527866.jpg
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      Extent: 139p.

Works about this Work

A Table, a Fruit Bowl and One Shrivelled Apple Richard Johnstone , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2013;

— Review of Seance on a Wet Afternoon Mark McShane , 1961 single work novel

'MARK McSHANE’s 1961 thriller Séance on a Wet Afternoon has been adapted four times since its initial publication. The first, Bryan Forbes’s 1964 film of the same title, remains the best known – better known, in fact, than the novel. Though not especially successful when it was released, it has grown considerably in reputation. Richard Attenborough, who co-produced the film with Forbes as well as acting in it, later identified the role as his best performance. In 2002, after a long gap, the Japanese horror film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa made a telemovie that took further liberties with the plot but remained, as did the earlier film, more or less faithful to the essentials. There has been an adaptation for radio – first broadcast on BBC Radio4 in 2010, with the excellent Anton Lesser as narrator – and, most adventurously of all, an opera. The opera, by Stephen Schwartz, who is best known as the lyricist and composer of the musical Wicked, had its premiere in Santa Barbara in 2009, and was performed in New York in 2011.'(Introduction)          

A Table, a Fruit Bowl and One Shrivelled Apple Richard Johnstone , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2013;

— Review of Seance on a Wet Afternoon Mark McShane , 1961 single work novel

'MARK McSHANE’s 1961 thriller Séance on a Wet Afternoon has been adapted four times since its initial publication. The first, Bryan Forbes’s 1964 film of the same title, remains the best known – better known, in fact, than the novel. Though not especially successful when it was released, it has grown considerably in reputation. Richard Attenborough, who co-produced the film with Forbes as well as acting in it, later identified the role as his best performance. In 2002, after a long gap, the Japanese horror film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa made a telemovie that took further liberties with the plot but remained, as did the earlier film, more or less faithful to the essentials. There has been an adaptation for radio – first broadcast on BBC Radio4 in 2010, with the excellent Anton Lesser as narrator – and, most adventurously of all, an opera. The opera, by Stephen Schwartz, who is best known as the lyricist and composer of the musical Wicked, had its premiere in Santa Barbara in 2009, and was performed in New York in 2011.'(Introduction)          

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