The Independent: Arvind Ethan David remembers the very first time he encountered Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “A copy was lying about in my grandmother’s house,” he explains. “I must have been about 12, and I distinctly recall going, ‘Can books do this?’”
Adams’s words, he says, “do something different to you”. “More than any other novelist, he reaches into your brain, sort of tickles it, and stirs stuff up.”
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I started watching this movie for the first time about a week ago and seeing this has reminded me that I need to finish watching it. From my experience with the movie so far it is a little bit insane. I wasn't really sure what to expect from the film but needless to say it definitely was not the absolute madness that it actually turned out to be. I'm incredibly curious to see how they have captured the absurdity of the movie/book on stage. I think that a stage show, though it can be difficult in some ways, but in other ways it lends it's self really well to the crazy and absurd. When you see something ridiculous on stage I feel like it has a bigger impact on you and the feeling of "how on earth could they pull this off" when you're sitting in the room with something that doesn't seem possible is very impactful and definitely something that they have employed for this production.
I did not know that there was a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adaptation in the works currently which is very exciting especially because I think that a lot of London theater makes really fantastic and exciting adaptations of classic works. I was introduced to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by my dad since it's one of his favorite books after reading the Phantom Tollbooth. I think it's a very fun and whimsical and sci-fi look into the cosmos and adventure and I think it can make a really fun and exciting stage production. since it does travel intergalactically I am very curious to see how they will do that visually. I wish all of these success to this adaptation and I hope that there is some kind of material that I can witness to get a sense of what the show is all about, and I wonder what the age demographic they're trying to hit for this book is since it's typically more for young readers.
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