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Voss and The Turn of the Screw

Two outstanding adaptations of literary classics
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ABR Arts 09 May 2022

Voss and The Turn of the Screw

Two outstanding adaptations of literary classics
by
ABR Arts 09 May 2022
Voss (Samuel Dundas) and his expeditionary crew in <em>Voss</em> (photo credit: Soda Street Productions)
Voss (Samuel Dundas) and his expeditionary crew in Voss (photo credit: Soda Street Productions)

‘What we do not know the air will tell us’
(Laura Trevelyan in Voss)

In the program for the première of Voss in Adelaide in 1986, David Malouf observed:

No libretto can reproduce the novel from which it is drawn. A novel, especially a great one, is itself: unique, irreplaceable. The best a libretto can do is reproduce the experience of the book in a new and radically different form, allowing the form itself to determine what the experience will be.

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