There has been a few announcements recently regarding Sam Mendes musical version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, and now we’re very happy to share a few words from the award-winning director on the project he’s putting together, and how it’s all developing. His take on Roald Dahl’s classic, which opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 25th June 2013, is being watched with intrigue in how it’s coming together for the stage. In fact, even Mendes has even commented:
“To me, the big job of the show is to render the familiar strange again.”
We completely understand where he’s coming from, so check out more more of what he has to say below. In this first featurette ‘An Introduction to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, Sam Mendes, set and costume designer Mark Thompson and puppet and illusion designer Jamie Harrison talk about their ambitions for the forthcoming production:
The second featurette ‘Designing the Sets of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘ sees Mendes and Thompson discuss the key relationship of director and designer and their joint development:
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