Image: the original theatre production of Girl Asleep with adults Ellen Steele as Greta and Eamon Farren as Elliott, photographed by Tony Lewis.
The film of Girl Asleep is no ordinary remake of a theatre production. Greta, the central character, is cursed with a ghastly but hilarious expressionist family, bonds with the gormless Elliott at her new school, and brings ancient forest monsters to life when she sleeps. Realism, it is not.
