A CLOCKWORK ORANGE to Debut as Part of Manchester Festival

By: Jul. 20, 2011
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, featuring the music written by the novella's author, will make its UK debut next year in Manchester as part of a festival celebrating A Clockwork Orange's fiftieth anniversary.

BBC News reports that, although various adaptations have played various venues in the UK and around the world, the performance next year will mark the first professional performance featuring Burgess's own music.

Based on his classic 1962 dystopian novella, author Anthony Burgess penned A Clockwork Orange with music in 1987, prompted by his general displeasure over Stanley Kubrick's famous 1971 movie adaptation. In this self-adaptation, Burgess restores A Clockwork Orange's controversial original ending and uses a musical score to further the narrative structure of the main character's world.

Burgess' original was named by Time Magazine as one of the best English-language novels of all time.


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