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The Dream House Lesson Plan

Introduction to The Dream House

The Dream House is one of South African novelist and playwright Craig Higginson's most popular novels. Published in 2015, it was adapted from a play of his entitled The Dream of the Dog (2010).Higginson began writing the outline of a novel in 2000, then turned it into a play, then a radio play. That radio play became the 2010 play, which was very popular in England. Around 2012, Higginson began reworking into a full novel. In an interview with Arja Salafranca, Higginson explained why he felt the need to adapt the play into a novel: "the bones of the piece felt very good, but in some ways it was a missed opportunity. The productions hadn't done the stories justice. What the characters...

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