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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.

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 Travellers community.

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.

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 play Marjorie Prime never sheds its theatrical origins and fails to find new insights as a film.

Girl Asleep, Rosemary Myers

Gillie Collins / October 10, 2016

From stage to screen: Director Rosemary Myers on her new film Girl Asleep

Gillie Collins talked to director Rosemary Myers about adapting her Windmill theatre play Girl Asleep for the film. Collins also explores the many exaggerated, theatrical elements that define the film.

Una, Benedict Andrews

Alex Heeney / October 4, 2016

Benedict Andrews talks Una and directing for theatre vs film: part 2

This is the second part of our two-part interview with Benedict Andrews on his feature debut Una and the differences between directing for film and theatre. Read part one here.

Phedre(s), Phaedra(s)

Alex Heeney / June 11, 2016

Phaedra(s) is frustrating experimental theatre starring Isabelle Huppert

Phaedra(s) (or Phèdre(s)), a nigh four hour piece of avant garde theatre in French with English surtitles, starring Isabelle Huppert, is the centre-piece of the Barbican’s LIFT festival and coincides with a Huppert retrospective. Originally staged at the Odeon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Phaedra(s) runs June 10–18.

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