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Post by duncan on Sept 11, 2024 12:17:30 GMT
From WOS -
Wise Children has announced its new season of work, featuring a world premiere, returning favourites, and international tours.
The season includes artistic director Emma Rice’s adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, along with productions of The Little Match Girl and Happier Tales, The Ugly Duckling, and a global tour of Wuthering Heights.
Rice’s adaptation of North by Northwest will be co-produced with York Theatre Royal, HOME Manchester, and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. The production begins previews at York Theatre Royal on 18 March, with a press night on 26 March, before touring to Manchester, Liverpool, and further UK venues (to be revealed). The play, based on Hitchcock’s 1959 film, follows Roger Thornhill, a man mistaken for a spy in the middle of a Cold War conspiracy.
One of the great films of all time - can Emma Rice turn it into an Emma Rice production or will they get it right?
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Post by n1david on Sept 11, 2024 12:20:13 GMT
It's an interesting idea but considering some of the most significant scenes in NbNW are some of the most cinematic scenes in history this will be a tough one...
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Post by marob on Sept 11, 2024 12:25:26 GMT
Hmm… not sure about this one. I can picture the toy plane on a stick already.
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Post by n1david on Sept 11, 2024 12:32:21 GMT
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Post by helenfrombath on Sept 11, 2024 12:47:15 GMT
Hmm… not sure about this one. I can picture the toy plane on a stick already. They actually already do that bit in the 39 Steps play. For those few that haven't seen it, they include iconic moments from other Hitchcock films at various humorous and inappropriate moments. |
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Post by marob on Sept 11, 2024 13:04:58 GMT
Just read the mailing list email, which contains this:
“Theatre legend Emma Rice takes on film legend Alfred Hitchcock in this riotously funny reworking that turns the original thriller on its head. With just six shape-shifting performers, a fabulous ‘50s soundtrack and a LOT of hats, this dazzling production plays with the heart, mind and soul. Join us for a night of glamour, romance, jeopardy and a liberal sprinkling of tender truths.”
Made my mind up for me. I didn’t much like The 39 Steps, so a knock off with random pop songs shoehorned in doesn’t really appeal. (Also having your own company referring to you as a legend is rather cringy.)
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 11, 2024 13:10:58 GMT
Theatre Legend 🤣
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 11, 2024 13:16:35 GMT
Sounds dreadful. I don’t want to see some knock off “funny” version of that iconic film.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 11, 2024 13:52:16 GMT
This will be beyond marmite.
Rice admirers will gush
Others will just avoid
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Post by imstillhere on Sept 11, 2024 14:22:18 GMT
Emma Rice has no tension in her work. The film has a lot of tension. I'll pass.
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Post by curiouskc on Sept 12, 2024 8:49:37 GMT
Having loved Wise Children, Wuthering Heights and Blue Beard, so I'm pretty much ready and waiting for whatever Emma Rice does next. I love that her company never play safe. Doing NbNW on stage will require big leaps of imagination.
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Post by altamont on Sept 12, 2024 16:34:05 GMT
There was a stage adaptation of North by Northwest 7 years ago - we saw it in Bath. It was brillianty executed and great fun too - I love the movie and thought this captured its essence beuatifully. I don't know if it played anywhere else. It had around a dozen performers, including Gerald Kyd and Abigail McKern.
No idea if the new version has anything to do with that one though.
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Post by adamkinsey on Sept 12, 2024 17:46:50 GMT
NBN is my favourite Hitchcock film and one of my top ten most enjoyable films. Don't want to see it messed around with.
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Post by kjb on Nov 18, 2024 23:48:26 GMT
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Post by oxfordsimon on Nov 19, 2024 9:38:55 GMT
Well quite. It is really amateur PR work to describe something that doesn't yet exist as dazzling. Fine if a number of reviews use hyperbolic language like legend or dazzling, then the PR can use that in pull quotes. But this sort of excessive self promotion is very off putting. |
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Post by nicenin on Nov 19, 2024 10:51:10 GMT
The crop dusting scene could be well achieved with special effects but how on earth they can replicate the tension in the Mount Rushmore scenes will be an impossibility.
I've seen enough precious films trashed on stage recently and I'm not the mood for another.
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