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Front Row: Noughts + Crosses, Pretty Woman the Musical, the rise of Subtitles

03/03/2020

Noughts + Crosses, Pretty Woman the Musical, the rise of Subtitles

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Noughts + Crosses, Pretty Woman the Musical, the rise of Subtitles

Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's Noughts + Crosses

Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's Noughts + Crosses. Plus Liz Carr reviews the new West End stage musical Pretty Woman.

Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's best-selling young adult novel Noughts + Crosses for BBC1, creating an alternative world where Europe has been colonised by Africa, the ruling class are black and the white population are slaves.

As Korean film Parasite dominates the box office, have theatre, film and TV audiences become more accepting of subtitles? Declan Donnellan, artistic director of theatre company Cheek by Jowl, who is directing Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy on stage in Italian with English surtitles, discusses with Film and TV critic Hannah McGill.

The Broadway production of Pretty Woman The Musical, based on the 1990s classic rom-com, has transferred to London, featuring new songs co-written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and a book based on the original film script. Liz Carr, actor and fan of the film, reviews.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser

Main Image: Sephy Hadley (Masali Baduza) and Callum McGregor (Jack Rowan) in Noughts + Crosses.  Credit:  BBC / Mammoth Screen / Ilze Kitshoff

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