From Dorian Gray to The Harp in the South, Williams’ appointment as artistic director was a gamble that paid off for the STC board.
, and enough of that ambition was realised for his tenure to have been acknowledged as a significant step up from that of his predecessor, Andrew Upton.
Cine-theatre – his innovative use of videoing on-stage action and simultaneously live screening it, as an adjunct to conventional staging – began with Tennessee Williams’in 2015, a production that may well have played a part in his securing the artistic directorship in 2016. was having the usually static screens capable of flying up and down and tracking horizontally, while, in the opium-den sequence, grotesque distortions were employed. Williams and his collaborators brought Wilde’s tale to theatrical life in ways that were equally disturbing and magical, and Sarah Snook currently stars in the production in London.Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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