The cast is uniformly good and only enriched by the consistently wonderful talents of Hugo Weaving and Toni Collette Craig Silvey’s 2009 coming-of-age novel,Jasper Jones, has enjoyed a recent renaissance, or with Kate Mulvany’s stage adaptation seeing three separate productions in as many years: at Perth’s Barking Gecko in 2014; at Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre earlier this year; now at Melbourne Theatre Company,where it runs until 1 September. But it was a feature film adaptation that premiered to an enthusiastic domestic field audience on Wednesday night at the opening of Western Australian film festival CinefestOz, in Busselton. Related: Belvoir's Jasper Jones proves the enduring appeal of coming-of-age stories Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com