Review: The Odyssey
The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey is nothing short of exceptional. This is an ensemble performance developed out of BAC’s scratch process and made up of five performers, two puppeteers and three musicians, creating the company’s first feature length film. But this is no ordinary film.
Read MoreReview: Medea
Rachael Stirling’s Medea is at once disturbing, manic, depressed and isolated. She is compelling; she drives this production and takes you deep into the woman’s psychology. This is a woman who will delve her hand into a boiling pot of water, in front of her child.
Read MoreReview: Entity
Entity begins and ends with screen footage of a greyhound running at speed. It somehow reminds me of Edgar Degas and the artist’s preoccupation with the moving, stretching, athletic form of animals, bathing figures and, not least, dancers.
Read MoreReview: Beautiful Burnout (National Tour)
Bryony Lavery’s play in this co-production by Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland is given texture, depth and dynamism to make this a rich, engaging and moving production.
Read MoreCelebrating Dickens
‘I was born’. In that most well-known of opening passages, narrator David Copperfield reflects on his arrival in the world. And today, if you hadn’t already noticed with the mass of new editions, biographies, adaptations, exhibitions and so on and so forth, is the bicentenary of the author’s birth. Today and for the rest of this year, it’s time to mark and celebrate the life and works of that great Victorian novelist and social commentator: Charles Dickens.
Read MoreCoriolanus: From Stage to Screen
Why Coriolanus? Why choose this specific play to adapt to the popular film medium? And what happens when it is transferred across mediums, from play-text to film?
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