Todd Phillips’ Joker (2019) reimagined the supervillain origin story as a study of a fracturing mind with the beaten down incel Arthur Fleck transforming into the weirdly charismatic murdering psychopath clown of the title. In this age of superhero/ villain obsession it was an ambitious and subversive take on an iconic character but not always a riveting one. For those
Read moreThe Colour Purple is the cinema adaptation of the stage musical adaptation of the 1985 Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the 1892 Alice Walker novel. This time, Blitz Bazawule rather than Spielberg directs although Spielberg and Quincy Jones return as producers alongside the stage musical’s producers Scott Sanders and Oprah Winfrey. The stage to screen adaptation can be a tricky
Read moreLook out Generations Y and Z, your cool cultural icons are now becoming retro nostalgia. The latest acquisition is high school clique comedy Mean Girls which was originally filmed in 2004 and propelled Lindsay Lohan to stardom. Like the Colour Purple, Mean Girls was turned into a stage musical that has itself been adapted into a film. The buoyant preview
Read moreThe aroma of chocolate filled the air as an eager Sunday morning preview audience filed into the Rivoli cinema for a screening of Wonka a mostly fun, good natured but thinly-plotted musical origin story for the mercurial chocolate maestro Willy Wonka. This is not an adaptation of any specific work by author Roald Dahl whose 1964 novel Charlie and the
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On Friday Magazine Graeme Johnstone met two of the lead cast members of Sandringham College’s new production The Addams Family. It’s a creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky and all together ooky comical, musical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family! For tickets, visit: trybooking.com It’s on stage for a limited season from Saturday 27 August 2022 at Sandringham College Theatre, Holloway Road, Sandringham.
Read moreDarkest Hour and Atonement director Joe Wright’s vibrant, occasionally awkward and sometimes moving Cyrano is an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name which was itself based on dramatist Edmond Rostand’s classic 1897 romantic tragi-comedy Cyrano de Bergerac. Through its title character, the story of Cyrano celebrates the arts of wit and rhetoric and the power of words
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