Rebecca X MTC (Sep 9)

** This is a one-night-only event, but Melbourne Theatre Company's Rebecca runs from 30 September to 5 November at Southbank Theatre**

Alfred Hitchcock’s masterful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA (Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, 1940) is as haunting as it is fascinating, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.

Join us for a special screening of the iconic film, followed by a conversation on adaptation with Melbourne Theatre Company's Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks and University of Melbourne film studies academic Dr Nonie May, exploring how du Maurier's REBECCA novel has been translated for the screen, and now to stage, ahead of Sarks’ adaptation for Melbourne Theatre Company.

Post-screening, Sarks and May will discuss Hitchcock's interpretation of the novel, the representation of women in this story, and the way our understanding of these characters has evolved over time.

When a young, initially unnamed woman (Fontaine) meets the charming aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (Olivier), the pair quickly get married and move into the latter’s estate. While living in his home, and assuming the surname Mrs. de Winter, she meets the jealous, obsessed housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), who begins to illuminate the notion that not everything regarding Maxim’s first wife is that it seems. While the spectre of the original Mrs. de Winter continues to live on throughout the house, the mysterious circumstances of her death and Maxim’s secrecy soon consume his new wife.

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