Crucible, SheffieldBy rendering its hero completely passive, Steve Waters loses a key aspect of Giles Foden's novelGiles Foden describes the narrator-hero of his 1998 multiple prize-winning first novel as "passive". This is a quality that can pose a challenge to an adapter. Nicholas Garrigan (Daniel Portman), a fictional young Scottish doctor, comes to the attention of the real Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin Dada (Tobi B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM on October 6, 2019