Turning a North East icon into Cambridge<\/p>\n
\n When Gharavi began scouting locations for the 1910\u2011set film, she wanted places that felt both historic and alive \u2013 spaces where young women could plausibly be dreaming of science and suffrage while society tries to push them into marriage.\n<\/p>\n
\n Durham Cathedral\u2019s medieval cloisters, with their covered walkways and enclosed courtyard, offered exactly that.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking to The Northern Echo, the film’s director Tina Gharavi recalled deliberately seeking out \u201ccrazy parts\u201d of buildings \u2013 arches, passageways and arcades \u2013 that could convince as an Cambridge college.\n<\/p>\n
\n Durham Cathedral\u2019s cloisters, already familiar to audiences from the Harry Potter films, became her answer.\n<\/p>\n
\n (Image: VICKY ROSS\/NORTHERN ECHO CAMERA CLUB)\n<\/p>\n
\n On screen they stand in for Cambridge, framing scenes in which protagonist Katharine Hilbery, a passionate astronomer, pushes back against the expectations of her class and era.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Why Durham works so well on screen<\/p>\n
\n Durham Cathedral brings more than pretty stonework. It carries centuries of history, power and learning \u2013 themes at the heart of Night and Day.\n<\/p>\n
\n By placing Woolf\u2019s questioning, ambitious women in such a recognisable, traditional setting, the film visually underlines how radical their desires for education and independence really are.\n<\/p>\n
\n For North East audiences, there is an extra jolt of recognition.\n<\/p>\n
\n One moment you are looking at the same cloisters you might walk through on a day out; the next, they belong to a fictional Cambridge where conversations about women\u2019s rights and the future of Britain are unfolding.\n<\/p>\n
\n (Image: NORTHERN ECHO)\n<\/p>\n
Showcasing the North East as a film destination<\/p>\n
\n Durham is just one part of the production\u2019s deep North East footprint. Night and Day also uses Beamish Museum, Ryhope Engines Museum and historic buildings in Newcastle to recreate Edwardian London and other settings.\n<\/p>\n
\n (Image: BEAMISH MUSEUM)\n<\/p>\n
\n For Gharavi, who has lived in the region for nearly 30 years, that was a deliberate choice: she has spoken of her pride in \u201cbringing the production home\u201d and proving that the region can deliver world\u2011class period locations.\n<\/p>\n
\n She argues that the North East is \u201cspectacularly diverse\u201d, with cities, coastline, countryside and heritage sites all within easy reach, all which do not have the headaches of filming in the south.\n<\/p>\n
\n (Image: BRIDGE & TUNNEL PRODUCTIONS)\n<\/p>\n
A local landmark with a global audience<\/p>\n
\n As Virginia Woolf\u2019s Night and Day reaches cinemas, Durham Cathedral joins the growing list of North East locations being discovered by audiences well beyond the region.\n<\/p>\n
\n For some viewers, it will be a beloved building seen in a new light.\n<\/p>\n
\n For others, it may be an introduction \u2013 a reason to step off the train at Durham and see the real thing after the credits roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North East landmark appears as Cambridge University in Virginia Woolf\u2019s Night and Day, the new adaptation from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}