Signs and Wonders: Bringing 'The Luminaries' to Screen

Replete with references to the zodiac and associated symbology, UK–New Zealand miniseries The Luminaries is a tense drama set in the multicultural world of nineteenth-century Aotearoa goldfields. Scripted by Eleanor Catton, the author of the ambitiously structured novel of the same name, the production provides intriguing insights into the challenges and limitations of televisual adaptation, as Anthony Carew finds.

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Twin Peaks, Eve Hewson, Ewen Leslie, Eva Green, Himesh Patel, astrology, Dunedin, gold rush, The Rehearsal