Directors:  Robert Turnbull

Adapted for screen by: Robert Turnbull

 

A Sensation Novel is a short comic operetta written by WS Gilbert with music by Thomas German Reed. First performed in 1871 it was a parody of the sensationalist melodrama novels popular at the time. Relying on stock characters and clichéd plots, these novels were hugely successful… but hardly considered high art! WS Gilbert’s short play turns the ideas of these character tropes and conventions on their head in a farcical (and for 1871, remarkably post modern, meta) way! 

 

We are producing a fully dramatised, filmed version of this play. Working from the original WS Gilbert manuscript it has been adapted for the screen and will be brought to life using the latest digital film making techniques, green screen, VFX and of course talented actors.