Here are some major points about Hatcher’s adaptation:ġ) IT’S SHORTER – even with a lively, responsive audience, the Hatcher Wait Until Dark was never more than 90 minutes of content in performance (intermission, pre-show speech, etc.
With my longstanding affection for the original, I was skeptical when I was hired to direct the new version at Millbrook Playhouse in the summer of 2017. I’ve always loved Wait Until Dark and I saw the short-lived Tomei/Tarantino Broadway revival three times. So in 2013, the Geffen commissioned Jeffrey Hatcher to make a new adaptation-intended for Broadway (per some press reports), where thrillers have been in short supply the past few decades, whether new or revived. The original production was created by serious practitioners of commercial professional theatre.īut prior to the advent of the new version, reviews of productions of the original in the internet era increasingly point out the flaws in Knott’s script. Wait Until Dark is a show with commercial appeal that has always attracted celebrity talent and lets your Actors-with-a-capital-A have some fun. Plus, Susy/Susan has always been an “awards bait” role.
TV version (Katharine Ross & Stacey Keach)īroadway revival (Marisa Tomei & Quentin Tarantino)Īnd a regional, stock, and amateur theatre perennial for decades after the original’s Broadway bow. The original 1966 version by Frederick Knott was an immediate and massive hit:
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