His agent told him after this success: "You’ve got a choice: you can write the same play over and over for the next 30 years" or, alternatively, "you can decide to do something completely different every time". He told her that he was writing a play about the "extermination of the Brazilian Indians in the 1960s". "Savages", set during the period of the military government and derived from an article "Genocide in Brazil" by Norman Lewis, was first performed in 1973. His first produced film adaptation, of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" (1973), was directed by Patrick Garland, and stars Anthony Hopkins and Claire Bloom.