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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Hasn't Been Rethought in Theatrical Terms

Playwright Richard Greenberg has adapted Truman Capote’s novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” for the theater with remarkable fidelity—and that’s the problem. Capote’s wispy memory tale, told principally in carefully carved prose, may be hypnotic on the page, but it’s dull onstage, with too much narration and not enough drama. Greenberg and director Sean Mathias haven&rsquo…

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00PM on March 20, 2013

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