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'Adaptations dominate Australian theatre. Is this a sign of the bankruptcy of original ideas or does it herald a confident fresh approach to great works of drama?'
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Epigraph: Write your own plays and stop effing around with everybody else's. It's lazy. It's easy. It's conservative. And it ignores the vibrancy of the contemporary voices that surround you. -Playwright and screenwriter Andrew Bovell on the rise of adapted plays.
It's not Ibsen's script, it's my script. -Writer-director Simon on his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck.
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Subjects:
- The Secret River 2013 single work drama
- Mother Courage & Her Children 2013 single work drama
- The Wild Duck 2011 single work drama
- 2013
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