2666 challenges: adapting Roberto Bolaño's novel for the stage by Robert Falls

Producing a theatrical version of Bolaño's 900-page novel, with its large cast and extreme variations in tone, was a terrifying prospect for director Robert Falls. One five-hour play later, he explains the irresistible call of Bolaño's epic workIt began in 2006. I was in Barcelona attending a theatre festival, and everywhere I went I saw giant posters featuring photographs of pink crosses in the desert, emblazo…

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