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...When Sen, 57, began writing the script, all she knew was that she wanted to shoot a love story. She had no idea in which context. But in the aftermath of 9/11, she focused the story increasingly on religious hatred-a subject that became all the more timely when riots broke out in Gujarat in March 2002 and one's faith became a litmus test to decide who lives and who dies. Though the inspiration was macabre, Sen doesn't fill the frames of this delicate work with blood and gore, explaining that she wanted, above all, "to make...
...when he saw Roman Polanski’s 1995 film adaptation of the play, starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley, something clicked. “I really loved it. I liked the changes made to the script...
Although Stevens says he enjoyed reading Dorfman’s play, he thought it would be too forced on the stage. Luckily, Harvard connections helped Stevens get in touch with Rafael Yglesias, the screenwriter who adapted Dorfman’s script. Rafael’s son, Matthew G. Yglesias ’03, lived across the hall from Stevens as a first-year. “So I e-mailed him and he hooked me up with his dad,” Stevens says...
Rafael Yglesias sent him a copy of the screenplay, which Stevens says he liked considerably more than Dorfman’s original script. However, certain aspects of Yglesias’ screenplay would have been impossible to stage in the Adams Pool Theater, like the climactic final scene of the movie. So Stevens decided to mix-and-match parts of the film and play...
Rafael Yglesias sent him a copy of the screenplay, which Stevens says he liked considerably more than Dorfman’s original script. However, certain aspects of Yglesias’ screenplay would have been impossible to stage in the Adams Pool Theater, like the climactic final scene of the movie. So Stevens decided to mix-and-match parts of the film and play...