NP stage version of Rushdie's _Midnight's Children_

[pynchonoid]

"WHEN IT FIRST APPEARED in 1981, Salman Rushdie’s epic
novel Midnight’s Children won the Booker Prize, became
a bestseller and was sold to more than 20 countries.
It was also optioned for television adaptation, but by
1993, when Midnight’s Children won the “Booker of
Bookers” marking the prize’s 25th anniversary, initial
attempts to transfer Rushdie’s sweeping allegorical
vision of Indo-Pakistani history to the screen had
come to nothing. 

Ten years later, after abortive adaptations by the BBC
and a leading West End producer, it has taken the
combined efforts of Rushdie, the Royal Shakespeare
Company and two American universities to end the wait,
with a stage version of Midnight’s Children that
previews in London from next week. It is directed by
the former Young Vic boss Tim Supple, renowned for his
theatrical adaptations, including Grimm Tales, The
Jungle Book and Tales from Ovid. 

We are promised Brechtian realism, an Apocalypse
Now-style jungle sequence, songs, archive footage of
Nehru, Indira Gandhi and 1960s Bombay and specially
filmed sequences that Supple hopes will transport the
audience “to the extra reaches of magical realism”.
[...] 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-534837,00.html

-Doug



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