Brokeback Mountain Stage Adaptation Aiming to Bow in London Next Year

From award-winning short story to hit movie to an opera to a play! A stage adaptation of Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain is aiming to premiere on the London boards in 2016, courtesy of producer Tom O’Connell. No word yet on creative team or casting.

The story is set in 1963, when two young men, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, are hired for the summer to look after sheep at a remote grazing range on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. Unexpectedly, alone in the wilderness, they form an intense emotional and physical bond that will change their lives forever. And over the next twenty years, as their separate lives play out through marriages, children and dead-end jobs, they long to be together, back on Brokeback Mountain, in a place where there are no secrets, only each other.

The 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain starred Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams; it won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Score. Brokeback Mountain the opera premiered in 2014 in Madrid, with music by Charles Wuorinen and a libretto by Proulx, based on her 1997 short story.