Friday, May 16, 2014

'Wolf Hall' takes to the stage, TV series in works

In this Thursday, May 15, 2014 photo, a scene from 'Wolf Hall' with Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell, foreground, and Paul Jesson as Cardinal Wolsey, right, during a media opportunity at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning best-seller about deadly intrigue at the court of King Henry VIII will soon be a BBC series with Tony Award-winner Mark Rylance and "Homeland" star Damian Lewis. "Wolf Hall" and sequel "Bring Up the Bodies" have already been adapted into plays that plunge audiences into a world of murky Tudor machinations. As the plays move to London's West End after a rave-gathering run at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, Mantel said the characters' complex motives and shades of gray were key to the stories' adaptability. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) LONDON (AP) — Like its sharp-toothed namesake, "Wolf Hall" is a fearsome beast.



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