Tracing A Play’s Tangled Ancestry (Is It A Movie? A Play?)

Movie adaptations are everywhere in London’s West End. So a new “Days of Wine and Roses” seems straightforward – a new version of the 1962 Blake Edwards movie. And yet – this “world première” is a riff off the 1973 stage version. That in turn was based on the first Days of Wine and Roses, a play for television, broadcast live in 1958.