Shakespeare in Love
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Shakespeare in Love Details
Plagued by debt, tormented by writer’s block and in desperate need of a new hit, promising new playwright Will Shakespeare finds his muse in the form of passionate young noblewoman Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love soon draws everyone, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama, and inspires Will to write the greatest love story of all time: Romeo and Juliet. Based on the Oscar-winning screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love has been deftly adapted for the stage by Lee Hall and has been playing to rave reviews and a sold-out theatre at the Noël Coward in London. The London production is directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, the driving force behind the world-renowned theatre company, Cheek by Jowl. A Broadway transfer is planned for Spring 2015.
Reviews
As a fan of the movie, I have been interested to see if someone would adapt the thing for the stage, having as one of the screen writers Tom Stoppard, one of the best playwrights of the modern area. It may be my nearly memorized familiarity with the film but I felt this adaptation by Lee Hall fell a little short of the potential of the story. Having said that, I do think Hall has retained the essence of the film while making the appropriate changes to make the play work on stage. I would dearly love to see an actual production of the play to see if it does, in fact, work on stage.