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✮✮✮✮ When reincarnating something as famous as Strangers on a Train, it can be easy to fall into the trap of trying to reinvent every aspect of the production. Robert Allan Ackerman’s interpretation, however, revels in the history of this work. While more faithful in plot to Patricia Highman’s novel, from the second the curtain […]
Continue ReadingThe exuberant, ornamental setting of the Oxford Union is not one that works for every play, yet as I entered the Macmillan Room, I was immediately transported into the decadent, aristocratic world of ROPE, a Hamilton play later made famous by Hitchcock’s 1948 adaptation. As I walked tentatively over the luxurious rugs which formed the […]
Continue ReadingTo many of us the new films about Alfred Hitchcock may come as a great surprise. We may not have anticipated, when walking into the theatre, that our perception of him would be so radically altered. By the end of Hitchcock and The Girl, the man who charmed us so often with his baby cheeks […]
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