Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Northcote Town Hall Season 2011 - A Clockwork Orange





Anthony Burgess’s
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Directed by Ingrid Taylor-Moss and Sophie Petridis
Written by Anthony Burgess



There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.



The molodoy banda of droogs settle for a nochy with a bit of the old in and out, some horrorshow ultra-violence and a bit of moloko plus at the old Korova Bar. But the bolshy times come to an end when Alex punchipunches and kills an old baboochka.




In the stripey hole, Alex is offered the chance to reform his ways through the controversial Ludovico Technique. What happens to little Alex at the rookers of the grahzny doctors blurs the line between nature and nurture, good and evil.


Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962 and was adapted for stage by Burgess himself in 1987. Famously adapted for film in 1971 by Stanley Kubrick, Burgess’s stage version restores the original controversial ending to the story.



PERFORMANCES
Wednesday 17 August at 8.30pm - Gala Opening
Sunday 21, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August at 8.30pm
Friday 19, Saturday 20, Wednesday 24,and Sunday 28 August at 6.30pm

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