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Creators Ashley Pharoah and Caleb Ranson, plus director Steve Barron, have occasional insights into making the context of the book - a familiar title probably best known to current audiences from previous adaptations rather than the book itself - feel relevant, but they’ve lost any sense of what ought to be a narrative with a propulsive momentum. on PBS under the Masterpiece banner, captures some of the bittersweet undercurrents of Phileas Fogg’s life and quest. The new eight-episode adaptation, produced through an alliance of European TV entities and airing in the U.S. Like I said, whatever is a modern reader to relate to in Around the World in 80 Days?
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Even before the added encumbrances of COVID safety (to say nothing of post-9/11 security), we’d made fast, comfortable, accessible travel as fantastical as journeying to the center of the earth or the depths of the ocean.Ĭast: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie BeneschĬreated By: Ashley Pharoah and Caleb Ranson, from the book by Jules Verne We make jokes about a California bullet train instead of constructing a California bullet train. We had planes that went New York-to-London in 3.5 hours, but we stopped using them.
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We have all the knowledge of the world on thin slabs in our pockets, but we stopped actually going to the moon 50 years ago. One thing I’ll acknowledge about the endeavors of Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch, Scrooge McDuck and Elon Musk is that at some point, our technological advancements stopped looking outward. Rogue Director Matthew Bruffee, assisted by John Beausoleil and Victoria Bond, all three from Middleboro, are rehearsing with the actors and helping them develop their characters to make this an evening of excitement and laughter involving stampeding elephants, raging typhoons, run-away trains, cowboys and Indians, and much more.I get why it might be hard for contemporary audiences to relate to Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days, a saga of wealthy individuals so isolated from the realities of their time that they propose travel challenges that benefit only themselves at a price tag that could cure global hunger, expecting all of humanity to genuflect. And shamelessly silly enough to keep children interested and entertained!" by The New York Times and "High-spirited and cheeky" by the New York Daily News, as well as "A trip well worth taking" from the New York Post. The show has been described as "Smart enough to make sophisticated adults laugh out loud. Fogg and Shirley MacLaine as the Princess Aouda.
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A raucous race against time, the play version is based on the novel by Jules Verne and the Oscar winning movie, which starred David Niven as Phineas T. This fast-paced adventure through the continents is performed tongue-in-cheek by five actors in multiple roles. TAUNTON - November 13-14 at the Roseland Ballroom in Taunton the Rogue Theatre Company presents a comedic stage version of "Around The World In Eighty Days" by Mark Brown.