Meet Ashley Pharoah
Thursday 1st April 2010, 7.30pm
The Space is Brighton’s unique monthly arts and media event. We bring together the creative community with special guest interviews. 1st April sees appearances from influential singer/songwriter, Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel, who will also give a special short acoustic performance. There will also be a chance to meet co-creator of the popular television dramas, Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars, Ashley Pharoah.
Venue: The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton
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Admission
£6.00 on the door
£5.00 for Online Advance Booking
After studying at the National Film and Television School, Pharoah began his television writing career on EastEnders in 1991, on which he worked for four years and where he met co-writer Matthew Graham. He went on to contribute five episodes to the dramas, Casualty and Silent Witness. For ITV, he created the long-running series Where the Heart Is, before contributing to BBC One’s Down to Earth. Among other work in the early 2000s, he scripted an adaptation of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, starring Stephen Fry.
Meanwhile Pharoah, Matthew Graham and veteran EastEenders writer Tony Jordan spent years co-creating Life on Mars, which was first shown in 2006. The format of the series mixed time travel with police drama. DCI Sam Tyler, played by John Simm, who, after being hit by a car in 2006, finds himself in the year 1973. There, he works for Manchester Police under DCI Gene Hunt. Over the course of the series, Tyler faces various culture clashes, most frequently regarding differences in his approach to policing compared to that of his colleagues. The series also features a strong ambiguity concerning Tyler's predicament: it is unclear whether he really has travelled back in time, is in a coma in 2006 and imagining his experiences, or if he is mentally unstable. The BAFTA and Emmy winning Life on Mars was followed by Ashes to Ashes. Set in 1981, this series starred Keeley Hawes alongside Phillip Glenister who reprised his role as Gene Hunt.
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