Channel 4 Television have announced that the Oscar Wilde Trilogy will be broadcast in the afternoon on St. Stephen’s Day, 26 December 2003. The Trilogy which was produced by TerraGlyph in Ireland and Lupus Films from the UK with the support of the Irish Film Board features 3 of Oscar Wilde’s best known children’s stories, the Nightingale and the Rose, the Devoted Friend and the Selfish Giant.
Animated in 3 different styles, the films feature the voices of Pete Postlethwaite, Brendan Gleeson, Fiona Allen and Eamon Morrissey and a music score by Debbie Wiseman adapted from her Grammy nominated CD.
The films received their London premiere on Saturday night last where the films were screened to an audience of 2000 adults and children at the Barbican Theatre accompanied by a live performance of the music by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Debbie Wiseman.
