A Clockwork Orange (novel) French Restaurant – and being served with a Big Mac." In 1994, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater put on a production of "A Clockwork Orange" directed by Terry Kinney. The American premiere of novelist Anthony Burgess's own adaptation of his "A Clockwork Orange" starred K. Todd Freeman as Alex. In 2001, UNI Theatre (Mississauga, Ontario) presented the Canadian premiere of the play under the direction of Terry Costa. In 2002, Godlight Theatre Company presented the New York Premiere adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" at Manhattan Theatre Source. The production went on to play at the SoHo Playhouse (2002), Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004),
A Clockwork Orange (film) chapter had been deleted on the insistence of its American publisher. He claimed not to have read the complete, original version of the novel until he had almost finished writing the screenplay, and that he never considered using it. The introduction to the 1996 edition of "A Clockwork Orange" says that Kubrick found the end of the original edition too blandly optimistic and unrealistic. In 2000, the film was released on VHS and DVD, both individually and as part of "The Stanley Kubrick Collection" DVD set. Due to negative comments from fans, Warner Bros re-released the film, its image digitally