By Romeo San Vicente
Spacey Brings Almodovar to the Stage
Many of Pedro Almodovar's
screenplays feature meaty dialogue, soaring melodrama, and great roles
for actresses of a certain age, so why not adapt them for the stage?
Actor
Kevin Spacey - wearing his hat as artistic director of London's Old Vic
Theatre -
 has commissioned an English-language play based on Almodovar’s
Oscar-winning All About My Mother.
The film tells the story of Manuela, a nurse who witnesses the death of
her beloved teenage son and then sets out to find his father, now a
drug-addicted transgendered woman named Lola.
Playwright Samuel Adamson is working on the adaptation, and Mike Leigh
regular Lesley Manville (Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake) seems
close to being cast as Manuela, but Almodovar has final say on script
and casting.
The curtain rises August 24 in London.
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