Salisbury Playhouse, SalisburyIdeally, an adaptation should do two things: it should reflect its original and it should work on the terms of its new medium. Bizarrely, Roger Spottiswoode's transposition of William Golding's 1964 novel to the stage seems to me worth seeing, even though it doesn't actually quite manage either of these. Like the pillars of Salisbury Cathedral (the unnamed site of Golding's story), it be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM on November 10, 2012