So we're using the theatre script but the orchestrations from the film which are much more luscious and call for an orchestra of 70 rather than 26".
Haig now tries to spend as much time on the page as the stage, working on another theatre script and a screenplay.
It is the first theatre script for the writer, who was an Oscar nominee for The Full Monty and later a winner with Slumdog Millionaire.
Having seen what augmented reality was capable of, the NTS team could imagine how it might be integrated with more traditional media such as theatre scripts.
The short stories, unproduced film and theatre scripts and hundreds of musical compositions have emerged from the contents of three houses in London, Monaco and Italy, bequeathed to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation after the death of his widow, Liana, four years ago.
Whereas theatre scripts are published partly for the benefit of future productions, I fear for the local am-dram group that elects to stage their own version of If You Prefer a Milder Comedian... Yes, the published text makes an amusing read, but mainly because one hears Lee's voice in one's head, timing the jokes to painstaking perfection, and oozing sarcasm.
The definition of new plays became more tricky when looking at new adaptations or translations of existing theatre scripts.
In 2013, an archive of Vivien Leigh's letters, diaries, photographs, annotated film and theatre scripts and her numerous awards was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Osborne sent Derby's theatre the script, but the management, recognising the obviously autobiographical nature of the play, rejected it, fearful of offending Lane, whose star was in the ascendant.
A symbiosis of the arts also marks the work of Ghulam Husayn Saʿidi (Gholam-Hossein Saʿedi), who wrote short stories as well as plays for the theatre and scripts for successful Iranian films.
There was a reader's theatre with the script contained in the pack.
