Octagon, Bolton"David Lodge yokes together two warhorses, the campus novel and the novel of adultery, and uses them to pull an old debate " the rival claims of science and art " to tell the truth about life." So wrote Adam Mars-Jones in these pages, reviewing Thinks... in 2001. Now Lodge has adapted and renamed his novel as a two-hander for the stage. This simplification emphasises its Mills & Boon qualities ("He was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM on May 21, 2011