Simon stone's the daughter: Rewriting the wild duck as film

What a weird kind of waterbird Simon Stone is. He came to prominence a few years ago with a theatre group called the Hayloft Project and a production of the Thyestes of Seneca (the Roman more often cited as the precedent for Shakespeare's violence than performed) that left everyone incandescent with awe. There was a superb production of Wedekind's Spring Awakening, a ghastly one of Brecht's Baal and then there was a production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck that commanded the attention of the theatregoing nation: it was set in a glass box and performed with a degree of telegraphic naturalism that left little room for the swirling black waters of Ibsen's symbolism or his troll kingdoms. It had a top professional cast (Ewen Leslie as the husband, Anita Hegh as the wife, Toby Schmitz as the friend who returns with revelations, John Gaden as his rich father) and a new ending - by Simon Stone.