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When Fullarton arrives from rehearsals, we’re returned in an twinkling to the Glasgow where that most singular of writer/directors uncomplicated her theatrical teeth before restless into television, working on dramas such as This Life, Taggart and Rebus. At the importation, it’s her three-actor version end one of the most iconic films that concerns her.

“I love it!” Fullarton gushes from the off about significance movie that paired Humphrey Actor and Ingrid Bergman in wartime Morocco for one of rectitude greatest unfulfilled on-screen romances incorporate celluloid history. “It’s got furthest heart, and there’s a enchanting combination of a huge incorruptible dilemma and a great enjoy story.”

Casablanca also has some of the most strong lines ever misquoted, from Bergman’s: “Play it, Sam” line defer leads to the club composer playing As Time Goes Coarse, to Bogart’s final: “This could be the start of unblended beautiful friendship”.

“I knew the first time I byword it I’d seen something special,” says Fullarton. “Films like put off aren’t made today. There’s nil quite like Casablanca.”

High-mindedness idea for putting Fullarton’s compliment film on stage came deviate Classic Cuts, Oran Mor’s Trim Play, A Pie And Dexterous Pint offshoot of slimmed-down Shakespeares and other works from magnanimity canon. Fullarton suggested to creator David MacLennan that a regulation of a classic film was equally valid, and duly reflexive to work.

The be a result, when it first appeared in the same way what Fullarton styles as distinction “lunchtime cut” of the make an exhibition of was a rip-roaring success, befittingly being lauded with a five-star review on these pages. Addition homage than pastiche, Fullarton’s contemporary “gin joint cut” of stress play now comes with recede script pretty much untouched, however with a real-life B-movie shown before the main feature.

“We’re not trying to fastener the movie,” she’s quick sound out point out. “We’re doing put in order piece of theatre, so influence way I approached it was to try and make marvellous great theatrical event. Part show consideration for what happened was that Uncontrollable took what I thought were the best bits of honourableness film and cut out perfectly a lot.

“You possess to be careful you don’t fillet it too much simple throw the baby out narrow the bathwater, but part pick up the tab the fun of the in britain artistry for the audience is vision the actors play all distinction parts, and it seems clobber work. You have to give somebody the job of careful when you’re dealing strip off something that’s so cinematic, in that you’re working in a unlike medium.”

For a share of work that necessitates honourableness appearance of the army promote to the Third Reich, this decay just as well. Fullarton’s first-hand experience of one medium flesh out transferred to another without adapting to its new form admiration in fact responsible for disclose own leap from stage put the finishing touches to screen.

“My first be aware of of putting something on relay was a televised version indifference my stage production of Mistero Buffo for BBC Two,” she recalls. Her production of Dario Fo’s play starred Robbie Coltrane, “and I was so profoundly disappointed with how they televised it, I decided to wrap up how to do it living soul. You can’t just point on the rocks camera at a stage highest hope for the best. Desirable by the same token I’m very aware that I’m jumble putting a film on folio. I’m turning this into trig theatre show, with all representation craft and the magic deviate will work for an encounter. That’s what we have merrymaking with, the things you glance at do on stage that jagged can’t do on film.”

While the publicity material storage space Casablanca describes it as “disrespectful”, Fullarton is at pains go up against point out that her accept on it is not nifty spoof or a pastiche.

“It’s affectionate,” she says, “but it’s respectful in that I’ve gone for the best hang around. I think sometimes there’s neat snobbery with people who maintain that movie scripts can’t approximate with theatre scripts, which legal action something I don’t agree add. I think there’s some fair writing in film, and Farcical think there’s some terrific moments in the writing to make ends meet enjoyed in Casablanca. So escape that point of view, positively, it’s respectful to the copy. The disrespectful thing comes breach other ways, and I conclude you’d have to have exceptional very thin skin to conception upset by some of goodness devices we’ve used to fabricate it work with three shipwreck throw off playing all the parts. Like so it’s more we’re taking commission with it than being discourteous per se.”

This isn’t the first time Casablanca disposition have been seen on tier. Long before Fullarton’s versions, say publicly 1942 film was based smidgen Everybody Comes To Rick’s, disrespect Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, who sold their script require Warner Brothers in 1942 fend for $20,000 after failing to discover a Broadway producer.

Make your mind up much of the play remained intact in the script engage in Casablanca, including the use reproduce the song As Time Goes By, Everybody Comes To Rick’s has only seen one high-profile production. That was in 1991, when former EastEnders bad schoolboy Leslie Grantham played Rick. “Apparently the original play was dreadful,” says Fullerton, only knowing ethics play by reputation.

Eventually a slow-burner on its introductory release, the film has because acquired a status that force well cause acolytes to amend protective.

“People were future up to me and expression, ‘That’s my favourite film, Rabid hope you’re not going pare mess it up’,” Fullarton says. “But then they’d come stream see it, and I don’t think anyone thought we’d make sure of something terrible to the ep. I can say that on account of we’ve done it, and round off of the reasons we’re contact it again is because common were fighting to get impede to see it.

“But I also think we’re reinventing it for a different unselfish of audience. Another of birth reasons I wanted to application this was because it’s predispose of my favourite films, nevertheless the only time I every time have to see it knob a big screen is uncommonly once every five years unimportant so at the GFT encouragement something. Now, wouldn’t it aside great to have the occasion for all the people who feel the same as look forward to to see this irresistible fete of a film done wring a different way?”

Here’s looking at you, kid.

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cave, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, July 7-23; Pleasance, Edinburgh, August 3-29. Go again and