The Hunger on-stage introduction for the Ultimate Picture Palace’s Blood & Celluloid: Vampire Film Festival, 15 Oct 2022 In the late Seventies and early Eighties, there was a new movement identifiable in British cinema: the rise of the adman director. For filmmakers like Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, Ridley Scott and his younger brother…
Review first published in S&S Mar 2012 Synopsis: South Wales, Summer 1976. Recently returned from London to teach drama in her local comprehensive, Miss Vivienne May rehearses a rock opera version of The Tempest with her final years, facing attrition amongst her cast members and opposition from conservative colleagues. Playing Ferdinand, sensitive Davy has a…