Touching the future

Beethoven, Bowie, beatings and brainwashing are all part of the mix in Action to the Word's A Clockwork Orange, which opened at the Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, on Wednesday. Written for the stage by Anthony Burgess from his novel, the ...

One of the producers of the highly anticipated stage show A Clockwork Orange was attacked in Canberra on Tuesday afternoon. Matthew Henderson, the production stage manager for the theatrical adaptation of Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel, was ...

When British theatre company Action to the Word's stage production of A Clockwork Orange played in Edinburgh, it earned fistfuls of four- and five-star reviews and sold out theatres. But one night there was a steady trickle of audience members ...

Reviewer rating: Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Reader rating: Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 votes) Genre Theatre A Clockwork Orange York Theatre, April 24 Until May 5 Appalled by Stanley Kubrick's graphic film version, Anthony Burgess belatedly adapted ...

In East London's Shoreditch, an area once better known for poverty, the murders of Jack the Ripper and the Victorian gin epidemic, it's now tech that rules the streets. Hundreds of startups including Last.fm dot the district. Entrepreneurs, ...

The title of Anthony Burgess' novella A Clockwork Orange came from the Cockney expression ''as queer as a clockwork orange'', meaning the oddest thing imaginable. It was a phrase Burgess had been rolling around in his head for years in the hope of ...

Italian readers thought the title of Anthony Burgess' novella A Clockwork Orange, which was translated literally as Arancia all'Orologeria, was supposed to mean ''a grenade'': an alternative, as Burgess wrote in a much-later preface to the book, to ...

REGARDED as one of the most controversial and seminal films of all time, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange never released in India due to its content that scored high on sexual violence. It will be screened today as a part of a Kubrick film ...

Malcolm McDowell's menacing turn as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange set the bar for a character variously referred to as one of the greatest film villains of all time. How, then, does an actor find newer, unexplored qualities in a man who must ...