{"id":265118,"date":"2024-11-22T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/never-let-me-go-review-stunning-stage-adaptation-of-kazuo-ishiguros-book-asks-the-big-questions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:23","slug":"never-let-me-go-review-stunning-stage-adaptation-of-kazuo-ishiguros-book-asks-the-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/never-let-me-go-review-stunning-stage-adaptation-of-kazuo-ishiguros-book-asks-the-big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Me Go review: Stunning stage adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s book asks the big questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22103759\/sei229591173.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2457608\" data-caption=\"Kathy (Nell Barlow, left) and Ruth (Matilda Bailes) in Never Let Me Go\" data-credit=\"Hugo Glendinning\/Bristol Old Vic\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Kathy (Nell Barlow, left) and Ruth (Matilda Bailes) in Never Let Me Go<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Hugo Glendinning\/Bristol Old Vic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Written by\u00a0Suzanne Heathcote<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Based on the novel by\u00a0Kazuo Ishiguro<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Directed by\u00a0Christopher Haydon<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bristololdvic.org.uk\/whats-on\/never-let-me-go\">Bristol Old Vic<\/a> until Saturday 23 November, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cft.org.uk\/events\/never-let-me-go\">Chichester Festival Theatre<\/a> from 26 to 30 November.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It took Kazuo Ishiguro a long time to write his best-selling novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.penguin.co.uk\/products\/never-let-me-go-by-kazuo-ishiguro\"><em>Never Let Me Go<\/em><\/a>. He had an idea about young people in a love triangle facing their mortality, but it just didn\u2019t work for him until he finally placed the story in an alternative, dystopian version of 1990s England.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2457603-stunning-never-let-me-go-stage-version-asks-the-big-questions\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Kathy (Nell Barlow, left) and Ruth (Matilda Bailes) in Never Let Me Go Hugo Glendinning\/Bristol Old Vic Written by\u00a0Suzanne HeathcoteBased on the novel by\u00a0Kazuo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}