Kathy (Nell Barlow, left) and Ruth (Matilda Bailes) in Never Let Me Go
Hugo Glendinning/Bristol Old Vic
Written by Suzanne Heathcote
Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Directed by Christopher Haydon
Bristol Old Vic until Saturday 23 November, then Chichester Festival Theatre from 26 to 30 November.
It took Kazuo Ishiguro a long time to write his best-selling novel Never Let Me Go. He had an idea about young people in a love triangle facing their mortality, but it just didn’t work for him until he finally placed the story in an alternative, dystopian version of 1990s England.…