Word: novelizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed with that verdict. Wolfe was a best-selling author celebrated for his gargantuan appetites, his 600-page novels with their catalogs of sensual impressions, and his operatic love affair with Stage Designer Aline Bernstein, whom he alternately praised as someone who afforded him the "happiest hours I have ever known" and a "titillative New York Jew." His autobiographical novel Look Homeward, Angel was a sensation, and the title of his third book, You Can't Go Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even...
WITH THE TURN of the Screw, Henry James wrote perhaps one of the most controversial novels of the past century, a novel where two conflicting interpretations are both valid. Is it a ghost story or a psychological drama? The Innocents, an adaptation of the story, is William Archibald's attempt at resolving the issue. Originally meant as a movie screenplay,The Innocents has landed in Currier House, adapted to the stage by director Nicholas Martin...
...Innocents turns the horror story/psychodrama novel into a drawing room drama. The action of the play centers on Miss Giddens (Ellen Harvey), a young governess for an unusual family in an old English country house, circa the late 1800's. The only residents of this isolated estate are two adolescent children, brother and sister, named Miles (Glen Whitney) and Flora (Kathy Urso), and their maid, Mrs. Grose (Carolyn Duffy...
...Innocents saves the best for last, the latter part of the second act building up nicely to the surprising climax. But it's not enough, and the play is only OK compared to James' gripping novel...
Much of the blame lies in the choice of the play. James is a very cinematic, not theatrical, writer as Archibald realized. In a James novel, the descriptions of houses and landscape are so visually striking and can be as important as the interactions among the characters. Cinema is the perfect medium for bringing these descriptions to life. When theater attempts this, it is exceeding its boundaries. The cast and staff of Innocents trespass this boundary, perhaps innocently so, but the end result is only somewhat satisfying...