29 November 2005
Tuesday 29 November 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Matthew Bourne tells Isabel Hilton about recutting the movie Edward Scissorhands as a piece of dance theatre...Atom Egoyan's new movie Where the Truth Lies...putting neuropsychology onstage...and how did vicars become such a staple of English comedy?
Programme details
On Night Waves this evening.
Choreographer Matthew Bourne famously made his name with an all-male Swan Lake for his first company, Adventures in Motion Pictures. His work has often used movie references, but now for the first time he and his new company have made a dance piece directly out of a film. The night before Edward Scissorhands, his recutting of Tim Burton's 1990 movie, opens at Sadler's Wells in London , he tells Isabel Hilton about the freedoms and restrictions this new adventure has presented...
Plus... Muriel Zagha joins Isabel to review Where the Truth Lies, the film director Atom Egoyan's noir thriller about showbiz sleaze in Fifties Hollywood...
From Egoyan to the Ego, in a stage adaptation of another investigation into the nature of truth. In 2003, the neuropsychologist Paul Broks won rapturous praise for his book Into the Silent Land, which explored the notion that the self is no more than a useful story we tell ourselves. Isabel meets the company who are transforming this apparently abstract subject matter into theatre.
And just why are Anglican vicars such a staple of English comedy? That high priest of the satirical sermon, Rowan Atkinson, is donning the dog collar once again for a new movie, Keeping Mum. A film version of Reverend Laurence Sterne's chaotic novel Tristram Shandy, featuring the broad-minded Parson Yorick, follows in the New Year. Professor John Mullan considers the eighteenth century conception of this immaculate comic archetype...
Programme Details
Edward Scissorhands opens at Sadler's Wells in north London on Wednesday 30 November, and runs until 5 February.
www.sadlerswells.com
Where the Truth Lies opens on Friday 2 December in cities across the country.
Keeping Mum opens nationwide on Friday 2 December. A Cock and Bull Story opens on 20 January.
On Ego opens at Soho Theatre in central London on Friday 2 December, and runs until 7 January. Paul Broks' book, Into the Silent Land , is published by Grove Atlantic.
www.sohotheatre.com
