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Sarah Austin, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne

New adaptation of Rebecca is visually haunting, but misses the core tensions of the original story

Pia Johnson

Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) latest offering is a striking adaptation of the 1938 gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

Like Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film, the story follows a young woman who marries a widower, Maxim de Winter, and relocates to his grand ancestral estate of Manderley – only to be haunted by the memory of his dead first wife, Rebecca, and the dark mysteries surrounding her demise.

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