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Associate professor Chris Holmes was selected to be a contributing writer of the Playbill for “Never Let Me Go,” a play that premiered in London on Sept. 25 Chris Holmes, associate professor and Chair of Literatures in the Department of English, has been a superfan of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for nearly 15 years. Holmes recently met his literary hero, as he was selected by the Rose Theatre in London to author a Playbill essay for the stage adaptation of Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go.” Holmes hopped across the pond to attend the premiere and feature in the play’s press junket Sept. 25 alongside Ishiguro and other contributors. “Never Let Me Go” was first adapted for the screen in 2010. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Kiera Knightley, directed by Ithaca College’s Mark Romanek ’81. The novel was adapted for the stage by British playwright and actor Suzzane Heathcote, well-known for her work with the television series “Killing Eve.” Life and Culture editor Georgie Gassaro spoke with Holmes to discuss the honor of being selected for this project and learn how his studies of Ishiguro’s work have influenced his teaching philosophy as an educator at Ithaca College. This article has been edited for length and clarity. Georgie Gassaro: “Never Let Me Go” seems like such an intriguing, science-fiction story about human cloning. How would you describe the plotline to someone who has not heard of it before? What would be your elevator-pitch for audiences to read it? Chris Holmes: My pitch for it is that it comes across as kind of a boarding school novel, but it’s a surprise that it ends up being, at least in part, about clones. It begins as a story of three friends who are in a very unusual boarding school. … But, slowly, there’s a simmering unease underneath everything happening, so you feel like something is coming apart at the seams, and then it is revealed that their purpose is to donate their organs so that the rest of the non-cloned population can live extraordinarily longer and healthier lives. […]
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