Her adaptation of Shakespeare's play is mesmerising.
Best known for "Metamorphoses", her adaptation of Ovid's poem, she revels in old texts.
And then there is her adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, at last going ahead.
Coppola's studio produced Black Stallion (1979), her adaptation of Walter Farley's classic 1941 novel.
She had one workshop production of her adaptation, which she has since drastically rewritten.
Kristin Walter has cleverly populated her adaptation with characters from other fairy tales and rhymes.
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Her adaptation of Great Expectations is at the Palace theatre, Watford, until 12 March; then touring.
As in her adaptation, last season, of Colette's "Chéri," she makes too much of what should be jettisoned.
But the story found a much larger and more enduring audience in her adaptation of it as a play.
Rona Munro has come a long way since she wrote her adaptation of Richard Adams' bestselling novel a decade ago.
