Wolf Hall to Middlemarch: how do you cut an epic book into a play? by Matt Trueman

Wolf Hall is vast, Middlemarch vaster. Can they work on stage? All you need is an eye for drama, their adapters tell Matt Trueman " and three spare yearsThe Great Gatsby is less than 50,000 words long. Technically speaking, it's a novella. However, when the American company Elevator Repair Service staged it word-for-word and called it Gatz, it went on for a bum-numbing eight hours. Spare a thought, then, for Mike Pou…

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