The humor of Toole’s novel, its enjoyment of puncturing surfaces and pretensions, has been reduced to punch-line humor and one-liners.
Jeffrey Hatcher
Theater Review: “A Confederacy of Dunces”—A Genial Comic Uprising
The Huntington Theatre Company is giving Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation of the celebrated comic novel a congenial production.
Theater Review: A Scary, Slick Version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Stoneham Theatre’s atmospheric staging of Jeffrey Hatcher’s version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is a production well worth seeing — it lives up to its billing as “a new look at a horror classic.”
Fuse Theater Feature: From Page to Stage — The Craft of Theatrical Adaptation, Part Two
Dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher didn’t become a working adaptor until the mid-1990s. He saw that some of his playwright friends were doing it and he thought: “Why not me?”