Too Late the Phalarope (adapted from Alan Paton's novel by Robert Yale Libott). It is too bad that so much of the serious writing for the theater should be mere rewritingthat playwrights should turn to novels for their plays, as though the best way to make a chair were to cut down a sofa. Alan Paton's dramatized African novel, like so many other adaptations, including Joyce Gary's dramatized African novel, Mister Johnson, loses the swell and amplitude of fiction without achieving the drive and intensity of drama. It is in some ways too...
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