Kathy (Nell Barlow, left) and Ruth (Matilda Bailes) in Never Let Me Go
Hugo Glendinning/Bristol Old Vic
Written by Suzanne Heathcote
Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Directed by Christopher Haydon
Bristol Old Vic Until Saturday, November 23, then Chichester Festival Theatre from November 26 to 30.
It took Kazuo Ishiguro a long time to write his best-selling novel Never Let Me Go. He had an idea about young people in a love triangle dealing with mortality, but it didn’t work until he finally set the story in an alternative, dystopian version of 1990s England…
