Twenty-five years after it was made into an Oscar-nominated film, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day is to be adapted for the stage.
The Remains of the Day is produced by Royal & Derngate and the touring company Out of Joint, in association with Oxford Playhouse.
Later this year, the Royal & Derngate will stage the world premiere of another bestseller, Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.
Norris said The Remains of the Day is: “One of those stories that appear every now and again which seem, almost as soon as they’re written, to belong to the world.