An English National Opera production of Nico Muhly’s adaptation, Marnie, with a libretto by Nicholas Wright, premiered on 18 November 2017 at the London Coliseum, with Marnie sung by Sasha Cooke. The book was also adapted into a stage play by Sean O'Connor in 2001, a radio play by John Kirkmorris in 1975 and one by Shaun McKenna in 2011. Details of the story were changed, as well as the ending, which was changed to have a more optimistic note. The book was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film Marnie (1964), in which the setting was changed from England to the United States. Two shocking events near the end of the story send the troubled woman to the brink of suicide, and she must eventually face the trauma from her past that is the root cause of her behaviour. She is finally caught in the act by one of her employers, a young widower named Mark Rutland, who blackmails her into marriage. Her criminal behaviour is described in detail, but her motives remain obscure, as she is a capable person who would have likely fared well in an honest career. Marnie is about a young woman who makes a living by embezzling her employers' funds, moving on, and changing her identity. It has been adapted as a film, a stage play and an opera. Marnie is an English crime novel, written by Winston Graham and first published in 1961.
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