David Hare: how I learned to love adaptation
Ibsen wanted his plays to be continually updated after his death. As his new version of The Master Builder opens, Hare reflects on the pain and pleasure of adaptation " and what he learned piecing Chekhov together in his garageSoon after becoming a playwright, I resolved to have nothing to do with adaptation. There were two reasons. First, I wasn't any good at it. My early version of Pirandello's The Rules of the Gam…