Caroline Hewitt's sizzling adaptation of Wharton's novel is first-rate. Caroline's ability to slice into the world of the novel, as well as to deliver the most important structural elements with ease, lightness, and seeming simplicity, makes the characters and story move in a wholly-theatrical and satisfying fashion.

Caroline's clever use of stage techniques to help embrace the form of the novel allows for a sweeping story to be told simply, for focus never to be lost on the main character, and for exquisite and heightened moments in the novel to become exquisite moments on the stage. You MUST read this.