Could Anna Friel make bed and breakfast at a sexier Tiffanys?
Breakfast At Tiffany’s is coming to the West End stage and Anna Friel is in talks to play Holly Golightly, the part Audrey Hepburn immortalised on screen. But before you start humming Moon River, the Oscar-winning song Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer wrote for the movie, the stage production has gone back to the source: Truman Capote’s novella. The film jettisoned several characters and obscured just how Holly and her Huckbleberry friends made a living; the silver screen version was more like a fairy tale, although Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard, were both superb. Playwright Samuel Adamson has adapted Capote’s short story and makes explicit that Holly isn’t an innocent in New York – rather she sells sex, and so does almost everybody else in the tale.
