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The Painted Veil

(4 stars)23 Apr 2007

This third screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s novel, here directed by John Curran (We Don’t Live Here Anymore) and scripted by Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), very successfully opens out Maugham’s astutely written but rather claustrophobic romance.

Fergus Lamont

Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, Wed 11 Oct, then touri

(4 stars)9 Apr 2007

ADAPTATION The question of what precisely it means to be Scottish, of where and from whom a nation’s sense of itself derives, are bound to be at the forefront of public discourse over the next few months. Gerry Mulgrew’s production for Communicado…

Life of Pi

Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow, Tue 13-"Sat 17 Mar

27 Feb 2007

We’re fascinated by shipwreck, or, more recently, plane crashes, stories that leave people stranded, fending for themselves. Outwith recognisable societal confines, who defines right and wrong? What would you do?

To Kill a Mockingbird

King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Tue 20 Feb-Sat 24 Feb

12 Feb 2007

ADAPTATION To Kill A Mocking Bird was the pretty near universal novel for teenagers at school. The film version saw Gregory Peck turned into an icon of integrity and justice. So much so, in fact, that Peck would later do his Atticus Finch in front of…

Alan Grant & Cam Kennedy - comic review

Alan Grant & Cam Kennedy

(4 stars)29 Jan 2007

LITERARY ADAPTATION Robert Louis Stevenson’s celebrated historical adventure doesn’t need pictures to enhance its power. But this graphic novel adaptation, produced as part of the One Book ?" One Edinburgh reading campaign, successfully captures the…

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

(4 stars)7 Dec 2006

The most daunting task facing director Tom Twyker (Run, Lola, Run, Heaven) when adapting Patrick Suskind’s novel Perfume was how to stimulate the olfactory senses onscreen in the scintillating way the author managed on the page. Twyker attempts to give…

Tutti Frutti

King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sat 7 Oct. Seen a

(4 stars)2 Oct 2006

ADAPTATION We travel through life inscribed indelibly with the past. All current experience is informed by regret, guilt, nostalgia and joyful recollection, each crowding our minds in our idle moments and subconsciously influencing our actions when…

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