Kiln, LondonStephen Sharkey adapts Smith's immigrant tale with zest but struggles to contain the novel's dizzying temporal leaps Adapting Zadie Smith's phenomenal novel for the stage is like trying to harness a whirlwind. The book leaps back and forth in time between 1945 and 1999 and offers multiple perspectives on what Smith calls the "immigrant experiment". Stephen Sharkey's stage version, with songs by Paul Engli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM on November 6, 2018