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...Indeed, those who have passed over often return here: Thomas Cromwell is haunted by his wife and his early employer Cardinal Wolsey....
...Mike Poulton’s adaptations are masterly....
...“You cannot have Thomas standing on stage for an hour thinking to himself,” says Poulton. “People would go home!...
...Mantel recently attended the first read-through of Wolf Hall the play (by Mike Poulton, who adapted The Canterbury Tales for the RSC)....
...At Poulton, villagers were gearing up for their annual conkers tournament, mindful of the regulations, I was told, that all conkers must be Poulton-bred, and not artificially hardened....
...In his adaptation of Thomas Malory’s 21-book cycle (published by William Caxton in 1485, 15 years after the author’s death), Mike Poulton cleaves as closely as is practicable to the original language....
...Thomas Allen, joining the cast from Woody Allen’s production in Los Angeles, plays the crafty Gianni Schicchi as a wicked blend of blue-collar spiv and subtle schemer....
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