The Silence of the Lambs – Bradford Alhambra
The Silence of the Lambs is one of only three movies to ever win the ‘big five’ Oscars, including golden statuettes for both lead actors, so creating a stage version of such an iconic film was always going to be a risk.
It proved to be a gamble that totally paid off as the producers only had the rights to the book by Thomas Harris, so writer Gina Gionfriddo eschewed some of the camper elements of the movie and focused more on back stories to the twisted psychological battles between the main characters.
Rookie FBI trainee Clarise Starling was dispatched to an insane system to interview seemingly urbane serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter as the bureau attempted to track down Buffalo Bill who was on his own killing spree. Gionfriddo cleverly explored the way Starling and Lector dev...