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Sat 10 Oct 2008'Gatz' is great, but 'Metamorphosis' has altered too much
CULTURE SHOCK:Two adaptations of prose classics - 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Great Gatsby' - at the Dublin Theatre Festival took radically different approaches, with different levels of success
ABOUT A QUARTER of the shows at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival are performances based on prose texts. From classics such as The Great Gatsby, The Brothers Karamazov, The Metamorphosisand Heart of Darknessto Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinkingand Samuel Beckett's novella First Love, texts that were not written for the theatre are being staged.
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