Theater Companies Bring Literature to the Stage in a Fresh Way
The book is always better than the movie, as they say. Taking a novel, an essay, or a historical record and translating it to a dramatic form requires harsh cutting and can alter the essence of the piece. How do you decide which scenes to include? How do you turn prose into dialogue? How do you honor the source material while still creating something new? These are questions that writers have been dealing with for ag…