The nice thing about adapting a work of art into another form, such as a novel into a stage play, is that you never get asked, at least as regards the adaptation, where it is you get your ideas. Of the two questions notoriously posed most often to playwrights, this is the harder one, and the one for which there is no satisfactory answer, not really, for either questioner or questioned. The other question, then, the one I got asked most often during the run of Thursday , was "How long did it take... read more
