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This adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel ‘Frankenstein ‘s both emotionally gripping and beautifully put together. Nick Dear’s script is engaging and transports the gothic story to modern day issues of social ostracisation and the nature of love. The play opens dramatically with Frankenstein’s Creature, a repulsive and terrifying figure, writhing out of an […]
Continue ReadingPhoto by Dina Tsesarsky ✮✮✮ This latest devised piece from Rough-Hewn, the brains behind Fear last term, was, in a word, confusing. Not that that is always a bad thing, it could be said that the director effectively cultured a sense of bafflement that held the audience’s curiosity throughout the show; but there were several […]
Continue ReadingA cliché opening to this article would be to claim that literary adaptation for stage is currently ‘in vogue’, both in Oxford and (gasp) outside of it, on the evidence of recent high-profile productions of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Headlong’s 1984 alongside student performances of Gawain and the Green […]
Continue ReadingThe idea behind Frankenweenie was born in the early ‘80s, when Tim Burton was a humble Disney animator, somewhat out of place working on projects such as The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron. A little confused about what to do with the scruffy-haired muse, Disney commissioned two short films that he promptly […]
Continue ReadingWith the recent release of Coriolanus in theatres across the country, I recently found myself going through the back catalogue of one of this generation’s most respected Shakespearian actors, Kenneth Branagh. When it comes to adapting the bard’s tales onto the silver screen, his versions of Hamlet and Henry V are often cited as the […]
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