Bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code to hit the stage in London

Dan Brown’s 100m-selling book is being adapted for the theatre for the first time

Renowned author Dan Brown looked on proudly at the stage, which resembled a kind of raised platform made of wood. The blackened silhouettes of the actors dazzled him with their bright blue eyes and ghostly white faces. But as he stared with the eyes located under his side-parted hair, a terrible fear gripped him gently. Was this performance about to become a critical hit? Or would the stage adaption of his novel The Da Vinci Code merely cement his reputation as a terrible writer?

Theatregoers in the UK are about to find out as Brown’s 2003 bestseller hits the stage for the first time next year. The book defied its critics, selling 100m copies despite being described by Salman Rushdie as “a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name”.

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