Kate Mulvany and Tom Wright are two of Australia’s most prolific adapters for theatre, and in this episode they discuss the explosion of novel adaptations on the Australian mainstage since the 2010s. How do playwrights navigate the relationships between the texts they are adapting and new voices, stories, and ideas? What draws theatre makers and audiences back to stories that have been told before?
This conversation was recorded in summer 2021–22.
