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Stage vs. Screen

Here you'll find pieces that look at how films have been influenced by the conventions of theatre and vice versa. We also look at adapting plays for the screen and films for the stage, including what is lost and gained from the change in medium.

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Alex Heeney / January 15, 2021

Phyllida Lloyd on her journey from all-female Shakespeare to Irish indie Herself

Phyllida Lloyd discusses her Irish domestic abuse drama, Herself, and collaborating with Claire Dunne and Harriet Walter on stage and screen. Herself is now …

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Seventh Row Editors / October 6, 2020

Ep. 60: Old Vic In Camera Productions: Three Kings and Faith Healer

In this episode, we discuss the two latest Old Vic In Camera productions, Three Kings and Faith Healer. The podcast considers acting for the camera on stage, …

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Alex Heeney / September 14, 2018

Interview: Richard Eyre on the real-life stages on screen in The Children Act

Stage and screen directing legend Richard Eyre discusses the real-life stage that is the courtroom in The Children Act and directing for stage vs. screen. Read …

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Alex Heeney / September 8, 2018

Interview: Carmel Winters on her TIFF Discovery film Float Like a Butterfly

Irish writer-director Carmel Winters discusses her second feature, Float Like a Butterfly, a female coming-of-age story set in the 1970s amongst the Irish …

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Alex Heeney / May 17, 2017

Theatre Review: Simon McBurney’s The Encounter has to be experienced live

Simon McBurney's one-man show The Encounter is a journey into the Amazon and the nature of consciousness, using theatre itself as a metaphor for memory. …

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Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda

Alex Heeney / February 3, 2017

Review: Marjorie Prime is a failed stage-to-screen adaptation

Michael Almereyda's screen adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize nominated play Marjorie Prime never sheds its theatrical origins and fails to find new insights …

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