Mother Superior As Old Vic Improves On Cinema Genius

Summary

---

FIRST NIGHT All About My Mother Old Vic ****

NO more extraordinary, sexually charged or surreal encounter can ever have been played upon the Old Vic stage. It is contained within the climactic minutes of Samuel Adamson's superb recreation of Pedro Almodvar's film All About My Mother, an adaptation that improves upon the famous original.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Mother Superior As Old Vic Improves On Cinema Genius

At first it sounds and looks as if the melodramatics of soap opera rule, as if the heights of campery are gleefully to be scaled. Yet what a sad,poignant message underscores Almodvar's dark comedy, dominated b...

See the full content of this document

---