'Swing for the fence': bringing Boy Swallows Universe to the stage
It was always going to be a challenge to transform Trent Dalton's sprawling hit novel for the theatre, but somehow it all hangs together On the face of it, bringing Trent Dalton's 471-page debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, to the stage sounds impossible. The Brisbane-based author summarises his initial response to playwright Tim McGarry " who approached him with a proposal to adapt his massive manuscript before the…