Adaptations
Dogme drama Festen adapted for stage
How gratuitous would everyone would have found this if the film had never existed?
Can arias ever be the reel deal?
Most film adaptations have been pale imitations weighed down with charmless music
French spy classic rebooted in English
It’s like being at a party with people you think you know — who then turn out to be someone else
Blessed plot – or maybe not
“Albion” takes up the challenge of the moving goalposts of Brexit and social and economic fragmentation, says Anne McElvoy
Untrue story of the Kelly Gang
For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester
David Copperfield and the politics of diversity
Diverse casting of period adaptations is a risk worth taking
