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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.

Andrew Bujalski, Results

Alex Heeney / May 30, 2015

Bujalski whips the rom-com into new shape with Results

Results, Andrew Bujalski has reinvented and rejuvenated the romantic comedy, dispensing with the formulaic boy meets girl, boys loses girl, boy gets girl back trajectory. Beginning in the middle of the love story, the opening credits play over a moving, striped sheet that fills the screen while moans can be heard in the background. Bujalski […]

Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, RSC

Alex Heeney / July 11, 2014

Henry IV Part 1 and 2 at the RSC perfectly captures Prince Hal’s coming-of-age

Taking a page out of the National Theatre Live’s playbook, the Royal Shakespeare Company has finally started broadcasting their productions to cinemas around the world, and then, unlike NTLive, making them available on DVD. Following the broadcast of Gregory Doran’s Richard II, the RSC has just broadcasted Doran’s productions of the next two Henriad plays. […]

NTLive King Lear, Sam Mendes

Alex Heeney / July 3, 2014

Sam Mendes delivers a lucid, dark, and funny King Lear for NTLive

Sam Mendes’ NTLive King Lear is an almost flawless production of the play at the National Theatre, which was broadcasted live to cinemas worldwide. The phenomenal Simon Russell Beale stars as a megalomaniac Lear who is slowly losing his mind.

Hamlet, Frankenstein

Alex Heeney / November 15, 2013

NTLive rebroadcasts Frankenstein and Hamlet to cinemas around the world

Two landmark National Theatre productions were recently rebroadcast to cinemas around the world via NTLive: Frankenstein starring Benedict Cumberbatc and Jonny Lee Miller, and Hamlet starring Rory Kinnear.

Hollow Crown Henry IV Part 2

Alex Heeney / October 11, 2013

The Hollow Crown: ‘Henry IV Part 2’ Review

The Hollow Crown Henry IV Part 2 and Henry IV Part 1 films are Eyre’s masterpiece: the visuals are stunning and visceral and the interpretation of the text is solid.

Henry IV, Hollow Crown

Alex Heeney / October 4, 2013

The Hollow Crown: ‘Henry IV Part 1’: Fathers and sons reign in Richard Eyre’s terrific film

Adaptor-Director Richard Eyre has condensed Henry IV Part 1 and 2 into a gripping four hours of TV without losing any of the nuances.

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