Editing The Fountainhead (section)

===Play===
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[[File:Ivovanhove675.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Portrait photo of Ivo van Hove|[[Ivo van Hove]] staged a theatrical adaptation of the novel]]
The Dutch theater company [[Toneelgroep Amsterdam]] presented a Dutch-language adaptation for the stage at the [[Holland Festival]] in June 2014. The company's artistic director [[Ivo van Hove]] wrote and directed the adaptation. [[Ramsey Nasr]] played Howard Roark, with [[Halina Reijn]] playing Dominique Francon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2014/the-fountainhead/ |title=''The Fountainhead'': World Premier |publisher=Holland Festival |access-date=August 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820075332/http://www.hollandfestival.nl/en/program/2014/the-fountainhead/ |archive-date=August 20, 2014}}</ref> The four-hour production used video projections to show close-ups of the actors and Roark's drawings, as well as backgrounds of the New York skyline.{{sfn|Candoni|2014}}{{sfn|Méreuze|2014}} After its debut the production went on tour, appearing in [[Barcelona]], Spain, in early July 2014,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tga.nl/en/news/the-fountainhead-in-barcelona-03072014 |title=''The Fountainhead'' in Barcelona |publisher=[[Toneelgroep Amsterdam]] |access-date=August 19, 2014}}</ref> and at the [[Festival d'Avignon]] in France later that month.{{sfn|Candoni|2014}} The play appeared at the [[Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe]] in Paris in November 2016,{{sfn|Santi|2016}} and at the [[LG Arts Center]] in [[Seoul]] from March 31 to April 2, 2017.{{sfn|Yim|2017}}{{sfn|Yoon|2017}} The play had its first American production at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]]'s Next Wave Festival, where it ran from November 28 to December 2, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bam.org/theater/2017/thefountainhead |title=BAM {{!}} ''The Fountainhead'' |publisher=Brooklyn Academy of Music |access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref>

The European productions of the play received mostly positive reviews. The Festival d'Avignon production received positive from the French newspapers ''[[La Croix (newspaper)|La Croix]]'',{{sfn|Méreuze|2014}} ''[[Les Échos (France)|Les Échos]]'',{{sfn|Chevilley|2014}} and ''[[Le Monde]]'',{{sfn|Darge|2014}} as well as from the British newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'', whose reviewer described it as "electrifying theatre".{{sfn|Todd|2014}} The French magazine ''[[Télérama]]'' gave the Avignon production a negative review, calling the source material a minor work and complaining about the use of video screens on the set,{{sfn|Pascaud|2014}} while another French magazine, {{ill|La Terrasse (newspaper)|lt=La Terrasse|fr|La Terrasse (journal)|italic=yes}}, complimented the staging and acting of the Odéon production.{{sfn|Santi|2016}}

American critics gave mostly negative reviews of the Next Wave Festival production. Helen Shaw's review for ''[[The Village Voice]]'' said the adaptation was unwatchable because it portrayed Rand's characters and views seriously without undercutting them{{sfn|Shaw|2017}} The reviewer for the ''[[Financial Times]]'' said the play was too long and that Hove had approached Rand's "noxious" book with too much reverence.{{sfn|McGuinness|2017}} In a mixed review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic [[Ben Brantley]] complimented Hove for capturing Rand's "sheer pulp appeal", but described the material as "hokum with a whole lot of ponderous speeches".{{sfn|Brantley|2017}} A review for ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' complimented van Hove's ability to portray Rand's message, but said the play was an hour too long.{{sfn|Freeling|2017}}