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Something… something – or, The tale of the little grey and red book

11 Thursday Mar 2021

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Dover Thrift, lending books, Short Stories, stage adaptation, Stephen Crane

It’s a Dover Thrift paperback, thin, smallish, the pages rather yellowed at the edges, my initials embossed on the right hand corner of the frontispiece… and I can’t quite remember where I got it.

Published in 1997, the copyright note says – so it can’t have been in Cardiff, much less in Edinburgh. And it can’t have been London, because I know for certain that I already had the book by the summer of 1998 – and I wouldn’t move to London (however briefly) until a whole year later… No, my small collection of Crane stories must have come from Pavia, from one of several bookshops around the University that stocked books in the original language. Continue reading →

My Canterville Ghost

06 Thursday Apr 2017

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Italian translation, rehearsals, stage adaptation, The Canterville Ghost

Oh, right: not quite mine. Oscar Wilde’s of course – but still, my Italian translation and stage adaptation. Six nights of it, for now – and all of them sold out since late March.

Nina’s people – and, lo and behold! I’ve been allowed to follow the rehearsals. Nina is the sort of director who doesn’t want authors around until opening night, but it seems that I’ve broken that wall, with the result that, for the last week, I’ve practically lived in the first row, taking notes rehearsal after rehearsal, and discussing things afterwards… Continue reading →

The Discovery of Rebecca

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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characters, Ivanhoe, Lady Rowena, Rebecca of York, stage adaptation, Walter Scott, writing

IvanhoeI was eleven when I wrote my first stage adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (a much abridged children’s translation), and even pestered a bunch of classmates into staging it. Yes, I know, I know…  Continue reading →

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