ANTHONY BURGESS’S A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Stage adaptations don’t always go to plan, quite often they dwell deeply in the shadow of precedence. Whether it is a novel or a film, or in A Clockwork Orange’s case both, there certainly needn’t be any worries.
“There have been countless adaptations of the novel and we’re lucky that ours has been so well received,” explains director Alexandra Spencer-Jones
A Clockwork Orange follows the experiences of a teenage Alex and his “Droogs” in a not-so-distant future setting with an extremely rebellious adolescent culture.
“We go on a thrill ride with Alex himself,” says Spencer-Jones. “In our production he’s actually the lead character in an 80’s pop video because that’s how it feels in his head, you know?”
Over 50 years have passed since A Clockwork Orange was first published and never has it been so relevant in modern society. “It’s like Shakespeare, it could be set in the future, it could be set in the sixties, as long as there’s riots and as long as there’s children and adolescence and men it will always be so relevant.” (AH)
April 23 –May 5, York Theatre, Seymour Centre, City Rd & Cleveland St, Chippendale, $69-99, www.seymourcentre.com
BY ANDREW HODGSON
