Network remains more powerful onscreen than onstage

Adapting stage to screen poses many problems. There’s usually something leaden and, uh, stagey about making a movie of a play; witness how few watchable Shakespeare films there are. They’re just very different animals, each with their qualities and flaws. Writer Lee Hall and director Charles Askenaizer have set themselves the even more difficult challenge […]
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