Yes, the film can't cover all the extra material of the entire series, (especially the political subtexts) and the later character evolution, but on a film vs the first book of the series comparison, the film is vastly superior in my opinion.
And then the flying monkeys are so much more terrifying than in the book, one of the greatest villains of film history.
In the film, things build and build to a much more spectacular climax. In the book, things happen and then are resolved in the next chapter. It is more dramatic ("surrender Dorothy") and better structured to build drama and tell the story. Oz (Miss Gulch/Wicked witch, farmhands as Scarecrow, Tin Man, etc). It is somewhat faithful to the book but also is more complex in many ways and adds new layers, like the overlay of life in Kansas vs. It is somewhat faithful to the book but also is more complex in many ways an …more They are quite different things. Theatre Awards, and is a proud MEAA Member since 1990.Kerry They are quite different things. NIDA, Trinity College London, and Sydney University graduate, Deborah’s been nominated for several Sydney Film credits: ChasingĬomets, Balls, Boys From The Bush, Cavity, Inside Out, No Worries, The Premonition, and Razzle Dazzle. (Nine Network), A Country Practice, All Saints, Home and Away (Seven Network). Hospital, My Place, Police Rescue, G.P., Pulse, Rake, Redfern Now (ABC), Camp (NBC/Matchbox), Murder Call (Sydney Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (theatrongroup). Suddenly Last Summer, Hotel Hibiscus (NIDA company), Antigone (Sport For Jove), Boswell for the Defence (The Goods Theatre Company/Old Fitz), House of Ramon Iglesia (MopHead/Old Fitz), A Kind of Alaska, (Secret House), Mum’s The Word (Burberry Productions/Australian tours/SOH Playhouse/Glen Street), Dropped Theatre Company), Metamorphoses (Apocalypse/Old Fitz), Unfinished Works, Homesick (Bontom), Seagull Theatre Company/Australian People’s Theatre/tours), I’m With Her, The Mystery of Love & Sex (Darlinghurst (Griffin), Lady Tabouli (National Theatre Of Parramatta/Sydney Festival), Gods Of Strangers (State TheatreĬompany South Australia), The God Committee, Heartbreak Kid (Ensemble/tours), The Shearston Shift (Sydney Other theatre credits include: Wicked Sisters Leave the kids at home for this stark and sublime re-imagining about innocence, grief and the terror of growing up.ĭeborah was last at Belvoir in Company B’s Greek Tragedy. There is loss, longing and darkness, there is pageantry, there is weirdness and wonder… there is Paul Capsis as the Lion! This production is an image- and music-based theatrical experience, incorporating dense soundscapes and narrative fragmentation to evoke the ideas at the core of this myth. The production is not a stage adaption of the novel, rather Jacobs conjures the striking symbols at the heart of The Wizard of Oz: the trauma of exile, rites of passage, and the all-consuming desire to be someone else, and reimagines them into an immersive, surreal, dream-like fantasia. Frank Baum’s narrative masterpiece is an abstract theatrical meditation. Director Adena Jacobs ‘ stark re-imagining of L. In 2015, our re-telling of the story of Dorothy and her friends are staging a dream and there is no yellow brick road. This tale of power and discovery on the yellow brick road has become as foundational in the contemporary imagination as Shakespeare or the Greeks.
In the aftermath of a natural disaster, a young girl finds herself alone in a foreign land seeking answers from an all-powerful but unseen wizard. This might not sound like The Wizard of Oz, but it is. ‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.’ ( LA Times TV listings, 1998)
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