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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 ?...
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...
“Theater purists might not be ecstatic that I am basing it on the movie,” he says. But Stevens says that because Dorfman worked with Yglesias on the screenplay, “I feel better about it. I don’t feel like I...
Another concern for Stevens is that neither the film nor the play were commercial successes. “Both the play and the movie have had a tough time finding an audience,” he says. “It’s hard to get mass appeal for...
Yet, for Stevens, confronting the challenging content of his adaptation of “Death and the Maiden” is the whole point. “The audience can’t sit and be passive. As a viewer,” he says, “you are...