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Performances and pace let down Jeremy Raison’s production of A Clockwork Orange

Performances and pace let down Jeremy Raison’s production of A Clockwork Orange

Largely unnecessary adaptation despite creating distinctive vision

(2 stars)27 Oct 2010

Jeremy Raison’s production of Anthony Burgess’s satirical fable about youthful gang violence and freedom of choice was always going to have to work hard to distance itself from the iconic source novel, not to mention Stanley Kubrick’s notorious film…

Jeremy Raison's production of A Clockwork Orange

Jeremy Raison's production of A Clockwork Orange

Swansong show from Citizens Theatre director

29 Sep 2010

Jeremy Raison says one of his favourite films is Brazil. Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece is part of a sub-genre known as ‘retro-futurism’, as if someone in the 1940s had predicted what the 1980s would be like. For Raison, who is directing A Clockwork…

Theatre adaptation highlights in store for 2010

Theatre adaptation highlights in store for 2010

Orlando, Lark Rise to Candleford and A Clockwork Orange making move from page to stage

22 Sep 2010

Orlando The latest production from Theatre Cryptic is a typically imaginative take on Virginia Woolf’s exuberant masterpiece about a young boy, born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who lives for centuries and transforms into a woman, going on…

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

Timeless novel given female makeover

(4 stars)27 Aug 2010

Anthony Burgess’ timeless novel is given an unconventional makeover with an influx of girls and an examination of the rise of the female gang. With the delightfully eccentric Amy Brangwyn playing the violent protagonist Alex, and taking full advantage…

Don’t Look Now - Ed. Paul Newland

Don’t Look Now - Ed. Paul Newland

16 Jun 2010

(Intellect Press) Don’t Look Now is a work of low-key persuasion; it wants to convince us that seventies British cinema wasn’t an aesthetic dire strait, but a forking path of numerous possibilities. The decade may have given us film versions of On…

Theatre Day Planner

Edinburgh Festival theatre day-planner

23 Jul 2009

Keen to see some great theatre but not sure where to start? We help you map out your Fringe-going day, from morning to midnight

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