“Heart-thumping... Don’t miss the hurtling ride of The Girl on the Train.” – London Theatre Direct
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Breaking Character
Bringing The Girl on the Train to the Stage:
Q&A with Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel
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“Paula Hawkins’ international best-seller [sold] 20 million copies worldwide... Onstage, The Girl on the Train carries that same heart-thumping humanity with all the juddering twists and intermittent periods of darkness – adapted for wider appeal by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel… Don’t miss the hurtling ride of The Girl on the Train.” – London Theatre Direct
“The stage adaptation is a nicely-balanced vodka martini: sharp, invigorating and definitely not sugary-sweet… [A] fast-moving, beautifully-structured narrative… As the drama speeds along to denouement, layer upon layer upon layer of intrigue and tension by turn obscure and reveal foreboding harbingers of a calamitous climax.” – The Bath Magazine
“Peppered with questions… when a neighbour mysteriously goes missing, Rachel’s memory, which is punctured by alcohol-stained blackouts and missing fragments, is all she has to work with. She tangles her way into the heart of the puzzle.” – Mary-Catherine Harvey, The Up Coming
“Adapted from the hit thriller novel by Paula Hawkins, which told three women’s narratives as they became embroiled in a missing person case… the play strips out the other two narratives and focusses only on Rachel, a hopeless middle-class boozer.” – London Theatre
“Suspenseful… a harsher, suburban, sex-filled variation on The Mousetrap.” – The Arts Desk
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
Bringing The Girl on the Train to the Stage
November 9, 2020