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The Royal Exchange, Manchester, is putting on Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Let the Right One In…

It was a strangely sexless production. Yes, Oskar is a pre-pubescent 12-year-old, and, for Eli, a vampire, sexuality is a means to an end, but the possibility of sex – a sex that dare not speak its name – is right at the core of what the novel, film and Thorne’s script are about, most notably once we start fully to understand Eli’s relationship with the man everyone presumes to be her father. But here, Shanahan has chosen to mistake this sexlessness for innocence, and that’s not what Let the Right One In is about at all.

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