Moonlight and Magnolias
From: Tuesday, 5th May 2009
To: Saturday, 27 June 2009
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Synopsis
Movie mogul David O'Selznick has just shut down production of Gone With The Wind. Determined to rewrite the script, he engages the reluctant services of 'script doctor' Ben Hecht, who has never read the book, and director Victor Fleming, poached straight from the set of The Wizard of Oz. His reputation on the line, and with nothing but a stockpile of peanuts and bananas, Selznick locks the three men into his office and a marathon creative session begins...
Our Review:
10 May 2009
It would be difficult to think of a play that Chris Monks could have chosen for his first as SJT artistic director that would have been so simultaneously bold and conservative as Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias. It’s a relatively youthful imagined account of the frantic week of screenplay repairs that enabled Gone with the Wind to go to production in 1939 after it started to look like a heap of burnt banknotes. Not only did it meet tepid responses from some commentators when produced previously but, as a screwball comedy, it’s brashly American, in contrast to the Englishness of Ayckbourn. This said, on the simplest level it’s precisely what the SJT is known for – an affable comedy without postmodern detours.
The entire play is set in one room populated by three characters, producer David O Selznick, screenwriter Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming, with occasional appearances from Selznick’s secretary Miss Poppenghul. Ki...
Creative
Ron Hutchinson (Author)
Stephen Joseph Theatre (Producer)
Chris Monks (Director)
Jan Bee Brown (Design)
Jason Taylor (Lighting)
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