Trent Dalton’s best-selling novel, Boy Swallows Universe, is destined for the stage, with Australian company Global Creatures announcing plans for a theatrical version that could ultimately take the story of working-class brothers surviving a traumatic childhood in Brisbane to Broadway and the West End.

For Carmen Pavlovic, CEO of the award-winning production company behind stage adaptations of King Kong , Muriel’s Wedding , Strictly Ballroom and Moulin Rouge – as well as arena spectaculars Walking With Dinosaurs and How To Train Your Dragon – the deal with Dalton has been a long time coming.

“I made an approach to [publisher] Harper Collins when I first read the book soon after it came out,” she says. “But they told me the rights weren’t available. I thought ‘damn it, I mi

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