A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Third year students performed Anthony Burgess' infamous A Clockwork Orange in the recently re-opened Derby Theatre Studio in February 2010.
Along with Piano/Forte these were the first two productions to take place in the Studio since the University acquired the former Derby Playhouse.
Overview
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is set in the future and narrated by fifteen-year-old Alex in Nadsat—a language invented by Burgess and comprised of bits of Russian, English, and American slang, rhyming words, and "gypsy talk."
A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive, totalitarian super-state. In this society, ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency, blind to the insidious growth of a rampant, violent youth culture.
The production sees Alex lead a small gang of teenage criminals—Dim, Pete, and Georgie—through the streets, robbing and beating men and raping women. He ends up in prison and in fact, hurls himself out of an attic window, but the fall doesn't kill him.
Out of prison Alex returns back to normal and assembles a new gang and engages in the same behaviour as he did before prison, but he soon begins to tire of a life of violence.
After running into his old friend Pete, who is now married and living a normal life, Alex decides that such a life is what he wants for himself.
The team
- A Clockwork Orange was directed by Tim Ford,
- Set & Costume Design by Amie Shore,
- Lighting by Liz Murton,
- Sound by Neil Winfield,
- Production Manager was Erica Hunter
- and DSM was Jenny Roche.
The acting company comprised Amanda Vickers, Amanda Maclellan, Laura Walker , Gemma Heath, Vicky Mulqueen, Erica Greetham and Natalie Jones.
A Clockwork Orange will be performed again as part of Buxton Opera House Studio Season in the Paupers Pit Theatre, Buxton.
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