NYTimes.com: It was such a sprawling story: the vast wilderness, the river, the cliff. And then Hollywood made it even bigger by making it legendary. Now a theater company of modest means is trying to contain the tale on a 12-by-12-foot stage, hoping to concentrate its power by focusing on the language and the interior journey.
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I love the idea of minimalist stage productions of huge, adventure-filled novels. It seems like it would only make sense to look to the novel "Deliverance" rather than film, because there is so much more to work with from the novel, especially in terms of character development and thematic elements. It seems like it would generally be beneficial to work from the original source rather than someone else's interpretation of it. As the article mentions, with a Broadway budget, it could have been possible to create a visual world like that which is described in the novel. But it sounds much more interesting to approach the story from this perspective because it allows the creators and audience to focus on the "psychological human drama that raised a lot of interesting moral questions." A realistic, movie version of this book already exists, I think it is exciting that this company is approaching the novel in a new way.
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