HUMPHREY BOWER is an actor, director, writer, dramaturg and teacher based in Perth. His plays, adaptations and collaborations include: The Twits (co-adapted with Michael Barlow from the book by Roald Dahl), Masks, Skin (2013 WA Equity Guild Award for Best New Play), Wish (adapted from the novel by Peter Goldsworthy), Asterion (adapted from the story by Jorge Luis Borges), Orpheus and Eurydice (co-adapted with Jess Ipkendanz from translations of Virgil, Ovid, Rilke and Milosz), The Kreutzer Sonata (adapted from the story by Tolstoy), Raising the Dead/Fyodor’s Demons (adapted from Dostoyevsky), Home (co-devised with Sophia Hall from verbatim interviews), The Reader (co-adapted with Sophia Hall from the novel by Bernard Schlink), Cock (co-adapted with Sophia Hall from the novella by Will Self), Passengers, Natural Life (adapted from the novel by Marcus Clark), Rigoletto: A Perversion (adapted from the opera by Verdi), The Idiot (co-adapted with Robert Draffin and Polly Crooke from the novel by Dostoyevsky), 1001 Nights (co-adapted with Robert Draffin and Whistling in the Theatre), Woman in the Attic (co-adapted with Polly Crooke, Gabby Brenann and Charles Anderson from novels by Jean Rhys and Charlotte Brontë), and The Country of the Blind (adapted from the story by H.G. Wells).