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The Treatment

Benedict Andrews: Una

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Theater director Benedict Andrews discusses the play Blackbird's adaptation to screen in his directorial film debut Una.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:13.0

Welcome to the Treatment.

0:16.0

My guest, playwright, poet, and now director Benedict Andrews.

0:21.1

It was said in the introduction to his plays, somewhere in these apparently familiar dialogues

0:27.1

lurks something surprising, unfamiliar, strange.

0:32.4

His work seeps into our unconscious.

0:34.1

He certainly did that with his first film as director in the adaptation of the play Una. Benedict, thanks so much for being here.

0:39.7

Pleasure to be here of us. Thanks for having me.

0:41.4

And just rereading that introduction to your plays and then going or reading fresh breath

0:47.9

and reading this stuff, there is that sort of idea of sort of chamber psychological drama

0:53.4

that exists in your work,

0:54.8

these things that seem familiar, in fact.

0:56.8

I mean, I'm just thinking about the way you use Polly Harvey's song at the very beginning

1:01.3

in a much more ominous way than anybody could ever have expected.

1:04.6

I actually tell the audience what we're going to see,

1:06.1

what they're going to see when they see Una.

1:07.5

Yeah, so Una is an adaptation of David Harrow's play Blackbird, which I staged at the

1:12.8

Shalbuna Theatre in Berlin in Germany in 2005, and it really got under my skin then.

1:18.4

But I was looking as a theatre director.

1:21.3

I've wanted to make a film for a very long time.

1:22.9

And I kind of used to joke with people.

1:24.3

I don't want to do an adaptation of a play.

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