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Category Archives: Adaptations
Battle at “Brideshead”
The Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday both carry reports of a sibling battle at Castle Howard over the running and occupancy of the estate. The North Yorkshire estate was the setting for both film adaptations of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. Waugh himself had … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Film, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Inheritance
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Dates Announced for Brideshead Stage Production
The schedule of the world premiere performance of Bryony Lavery’s stage adaptation of Brideshead Revisited has been announced for 22-30 April 2016 at the Theatre Royal, York (see earlier post). Performances by the English Touring Company have also been set … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Theatre Royal York
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50th Anniversary Presentation of The Loved One
Two Los Angeles organizations earlier this month jointly sponsored a 50th anniversary showing of the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s The Loved One. This took place at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on 7 December 2015. The sponsors were the American Cinematheque … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Events, Film, The Loved One
Tagged American Cinematheque, Egyptian Theater, LA Conservancy, Robert Morse
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Brideshead Among Forerunners of Gay Lit Opening
In today’s Independent, Boyd Tonkin identifies Patricia Highsmith’s novel on which the new film Carol is based as an early example of ground-breaking gay literature. The Lesbian romance was originally published in 1952 as The Price of Salt but under a pseudonym … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film
Tagged Boyd Tonkin, Independent newspaper, Patricia Highsmith
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Waugh Novel Recommended in Gift List
A Waugh novel has been selected for a list of potential gifts to be given to “conservative gentlemen.” The list appears on the weblog The Imaginative Conservative. The criteria for inclusion provide that the gift must be “quality if not…costly” (avoiding ties, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Television
Tagged The Imaginative Conservative
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Waugh on Writing x 3
Waugh scores a hat trick in today’s press with three stories citing him on the art of writing. In the Daily Express, Waugh appears in a review of the BBC’s ongoing series based on John Lanchester’s 2012 novel Capital. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Interviews, Television
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Harvard Crimson
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Carly Simon, Brideshead Fan
The Daily Mail has published a review of the memoirs of singer-songwriter Carly Simon, Boys in the Trees. The article, by Tom Leonard, mentions how her life was affected by the 1980s Granada TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Carly Simon, Daily Mail
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Waugh Themes Appear in Two New Works
Reviews of two new works refer to themes first appearing in Waugh’s fiction. “Misery,” a play by William Goldman based on a novel by Stephen King has opened in New York and is reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. It is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Theater
Tagged Guardian, Misery, Stephen King, Wall Street Journal
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Dominic Sandbrook Revisits Brideshead
The BBC is currently running a series on the history of British post-war popular culture. It is presented by historian and writer, Dominic Sandbrook, and entitled Let Us Entertain You. The second episode (“In With the Old”) was devoted to the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, British Popular Culture, Dominic Sandbrook
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