6/10/2023 0 Comments Pluto urasawa manga![]() They just tend to fly a little more beneath the radar, as was the case when the smaller Southwark Playhouse’s brought the feudal furry Japan Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo to life in 2014, thanks to some top-notch costuming and make-up work. ![]() ![]() Which isn’t to say page-to-stage adaptations are completely unheard of. There are the odd examples of blockbuster stage translations of comics - a musical version of Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical Fun Home transfers to London’s Young Vic this summer after a Tony award-winning run off-Broadway, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was a stuntman-crippling shambles yet it set records for week one ticket sales - but otherwise you don’t see Marvel, Image or DC dominating TKTS booths the same way that they do the multiplexes and bookshelves. Everyone appears to have accepted cinematic adaptations of comic books as totally natural, but the theatre is another matter. ![]()
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