Sean Foley, who is directing a musical based on The X Factor, believes we're too snobby about adaptations. But theatre is getting smarter at page-to-stage translationsIf William Shakespeare were writing plays today, what would his inspirations and sources be? As we all know, Shakespeare was a great playwright but not a great originator of plots, and quite happily plundered the work of writers and historians. He took …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:23AM on September 6, 2013