A Hiccup in the Stage Adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time

A Hiccup in the Stage Adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time

The only ancillary detail I can recall from when Madeleine L’Engle’s Cold War-coded 1962 fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time was assigned in seventh grade English was that my teacher, Mrs. Siemens, told us that many publishers had declined it on the grounds they didn’t understand who the book it was for. This is a common response among those charged with the dirty job of trying to persuade us to pay for art when confronted by a truly original produc…