The Rehearsal
National Library Building, 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington
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An adaptation of Eleanor Catton's debut novel. Stanley, a naïve first year drama student meets Isolde and begins a sweet, first love affair. Goaded by Hannah, the charismatic Head of Acting, Stanley uncovers a talent and ambition he didn't know he had. When his group hits on a sex scandal involving Isolde’s tennis prodigy sister, as fertile material for their end-of-year show, Stanley finds himself profoundly torn.
"Unpacking the dramas that energise a class of budding young actors, The Rehearsal mounts an enticing inquisition of performance, identity and moral anxiety with resonance far beyond its hothouse setting... The Rehearsal carries a potent extra-textual charge: there’s enough talent in this fictional drama school to constitute a real-world new wave.
Like the novel, the film (co-scripted with Emily Perkins) is as attentive to the misleading effect youthful nerve can have on the ‘mature’ as it is to the crises the teachers so blithely incite in the taught. It’s also it's own sharp, original thing, a film by Alison Maclean, alive with ambiguity and cinematic verve." – NZ International Film Festival.
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