![]() ![]() They are also surprisingly funny, with a more broadly comic tone than Mantel’s books. Slightly trimmed and rewritten since Stratford, Mike Poulton’s adaptations keep the language accessible and the political context lucid enough for a general audience. ![]() Heavy on dialogue and low on technical trickery, the treatment is fairly straight and conservative, but full of quality craftsmanship throughout. transfer seems a strong possibility when this limited London run ends in September.ĭirector Jeremy Herrin’s six-hour marathon of bed-hopping, back-stabbing Tudor tyranny opens like House of Cards and ends like Game of Thrones. Given the global success of Mantel’s books, not to mention the salacious Showtime TV series The Tudors, a U.S. Meanwhile, the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing brisk box-office business with these two weighty stage adaptations, which premiered in Stratford to great acclaim before making their West End debut earlier this month. ![]() Tony and Olivier award-winner Mark Rylance will play Cromwell, with Homeland star Damian Lewis as Henry. How Amber Ruffin's Mission to Have Fun Helped "Destroy and Then Rebuild" 'Some Like It Hot' for BroadwayĪ third book in the trilogy is on the way, along with a long-form TV adaptation to be broadcast by the BBC and PBS next year. ![]()
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