A musical stage version of Thelma & Louise, the 1991 feminist outlaw classic written by Callie Khouri and directed by Ridley Scott, will receive its world premiere at London’s Young Vic Theatre in the fall.
The original movie starred Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as two friends who take off in a green Ford Thunderbird. What starts out as a weekend fishing trip turns into a gun-toting female buddy movie after one of the women is sexually assaulted.
Over the years it has been hailed as a seminal piece of cinematic art about female liberation.
Khouri, who won an Oscar for her original screenplay, will write the show’s book with music and lyrics by Neko Case, the Grammy-nominated vocalist, lyricist and composer who has performed and published many songs about “women’s rage.”
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