From page to stage: the rise of the 'acted book'
Adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are running to sell-out audiences at the RSC. Do they disprove the rule that theatre and literature make fractious companions?It is a striking statistic " and, for many theatre dramatists, a depressing one " that a third to a half of the shows in the London West End in recent years have tended to be based on material best known as films: …