Joseph Conrad is one of the most evocative writers about The Thames. Charlie Marlow, the main character in Heart of Darkness, contemplates its history at the start of his best known book, which is set on board a yawl anchored off Gravesend. Tonight, there is a four-and-a half-hour reading of the script Orson Welles adapted from the book but never filmed. It will be read by the actor Brian Cox in A Room for London (pictured here), the apartment on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. With great river views, it it was designed by the artist Fionna Banner to represent the Roi du Belge, the ship Conrad himself captained in the Congo (nowhere in The Hear of Darkness, however, are the words 'Belgian' or 'Congo' ever mentioned). The reading, organised in a collaboration between Living Architecture and Artangel, will be broadcast onto a screen in the Purcell Room below where an audience is encouraged to come and go during the course of the evening.
Marlow's Last Voyage is a story in the forthcoming Father Thames.
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