Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall: Why I put Alan Warner's The Sopranos on stage
The playwright talks about the thrilling process of adapting Warner's 'breathtakingly rude' story of a group of schoolgirls heading for a choir competition I first read Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos in 1998. I laughed out loud more than I had ever done with a novel. What's remarkable about the book is that Alan captures the amazing life force of working-class teenage girls on the rampage without any sense of censo…