Oscar-season white elephant. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Eric Roth, Benjamin Button announces its epic intentions right from the start: An orchestra tunes up on the soundtrack ...

To age in reverse, like Benjamin Button in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 ... Despite 13 Oscar nominations, David Fincher’s cold white elephant of a film in 2008, starring Brad Pitt, was far ...

It’s only the premise that has survived the various outings of Benjamin Button over the years ... but Compton’s production at the new Elephant venue has a larger ensemble, no puppets and ...

We are in Compton’s native north Cornwall, where dangerous tin mining is still being pursued. Without CGI, the onus on the actor playing Benjamin is huge. Fortunately, the production has Jamie Parker ...

In last year’s staging of Benjamin Button at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, Harry Potter and The History Boys star Jamie Parker played the lead. Here, it is taken on by John Dagleish, who ...

In the original story – probably best known now through the 2008 Brad Pitt film – Button is born aged 70 ... regresses out of existence. Here Benjamin is born, complete with a tweed suit ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s (very) short, fable-like story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” but almost nothing else. Achieving an attractive life of its own on stage, the American story has been ...

Under the light of a full moon, something most curious occurs… Benjamin Button is born old. Bound to the fate of growing younger each day, Benjamin wants nothing more than to live a little life.

Born in the most unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button is an old man, not at the end of his life, but at the beginning. Trapped in a body where he doesn’t belong, locked away from the world and ...