Jack Thorne on Let The Right One In and why Adolescence 'isn't an instruction manual'

NYT REP members performing Let the Right One In - (Johan Persson)

Jack Thorne is one of the country’s very best creative talents, the screenwriter behind little series like Adolescence, Toxic Town, This Is England and the new version of Lord of the Flies, and playwright of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Motive and The Cue and the Old Vic’s always-sold-out version of A Christmas Carol. Among his relentless stream of projects, currently running at the Underbelly Boulevard Soho is a revival of his play of Let The Right One In, performed this time around by the National Youth Theatre, who are this year celebrating their 70th anniversary.

Let The Right One in is of course based on the cult book by John Ajvide Lindquist and the international hit film directed Tomas Alfredson. Originally Thorne wrote it for the National Theatre of Scotland and performed at Dundee Rep in 2013, “and it’s amazing to see it’s hard a life beyond that. I’m looking forward to seeing what James [Dacre, director] has done with it.”