He has directed or acted in several fine adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, though the best one – Much Ado About Nothing – is long in the past.
About 1914, King Vajiravudh, a graduate of Cambridge University, attempted to win back for the palace the leadership in literature; although he produced some fine adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, they made no impact on the people, with whom romantic fiction remained popular.
A fine adaptation of Shakespeare's brilliant but slanderous play.
And then, of course, there's the real National Theater, which has recently opened a fine adaptation of Tennessee Williams's "Baby Doll".
The other new show joining the Keswick venue's summer season is Neil Bartlett's fine adaptation of Dickens's Great Expectations.
When "Match Point" hit last year, a few critics rightly pointed out that the best Woody Allen film in years bore resemblance both to the Dreiser novel "An American Tragedy" and George Stevens's exceptionally fine adaptation, "A Place in the Sun".
Directed by Bob Dolman, who also wrote the fine adaptation, "How to Eat Fried Worms" is an easygoing entertainment in which a sensible message about growing up also rationalizes the abuse of power.
In the playwright Jenny Worton's fine adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1961 film, "Through a Glass Darkly" (an Atlantic Theatre Company production, at New York Theatre Workshop), Mulligan, as the protagonist, Karin, continues to hone that isolationist spirit.
There have been others, too, most recently Nicholas de Jongh, whose play about the homophobic 1950s, Plague Over England (pictured above), ran in the West End; meanwhile, Dominic Cavendish produced a fine adaptation of George Orwell's Coming Up for Air.
St James Theatre, SW1 MC Soon to head out on a regional tour that will take in Manchester, Swindon and Plymouth, among other places, Nikolai Foster's revival of David Wood's fine adaptation of the 1983 Roald Dahl favourite should be lots of fun and begins its run in Leicester.
JS · A Cock and Bull Story is released on 20 January 26 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollingshurst's Booker Prize-winovel novexploringing the lives of the Tory elite in the Eighties and framed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power makes the transfer to the small screen in a fine adaptation by Andrew Davies.
