A Spark of interest as Dame Muriel comes to the Fringe

The Scotsman | June 8, 2009| | Copyright

SHE is widely considered to be one of Scotland's greatest-ever novelists.

Now one of Dame Muriel Spark's books is to take centre stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - after the writer gave permission for its first stage adaptation, shortly before her death.

The biggest Fringe promoter, the Assembly Rooms, will host the world premiere of The Girls of Slender Means, the Edinburgh author's book about a group of young women taking refuge in bomb-damaged London in 1945.

Assembly has also revealed that it will stage a major production of Dame Muriel's most celebrated book, The Prime of Miss ...

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