Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Morte d' Arthur

Mike Poulton from Thomas Malory

Nick Hern Books

6 Female

Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is a cornerstone of English literature, and has captured the imagination of generations Here, Mike Poulto...

$14.99

Carrie's War

Emma Reeves from Nina Bawden

Oberon

When the Second World War air raids threaten their safety in the city, Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh village But the countryside has dangers and adventures of its own - and a g...

$14.99

The Jungle Book

Stuart Paterson from Rudyard Kipling

Nick Hern Books

6 Male 2 Female

Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales are given theatrical life in this acclaimed adaptation by Stuart Paterson - '... a master of children's theatre' ~ Scotsman 'This exhilarating production ticks all t...

$14.99

Ruth

Robert Leeson from Elizabeth Gaskell

Collins

In this skilful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, fifteen year old Ruth, lost and alone in the world, is apprenticed to dressmaker Mrs Mason. Falling under the influence of Henry Bellingham, a rich, ...

$15.99

Amazing Grace

Shay Youngblood from Mary Hoffman

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 7 Female

"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own She also makes up her own stories, acting out the mo...

$10.99

A Christmas Carol

John Mortimer from Charles Dickens

Samuel French Ltd

Dramatized with flair and wit in a version first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this adaptation of the ageless story captures Dickens' ironic point of view while it creates a panoramic view of V...

$12.99

Far From the Madding Crowd

Matthew White from Thomas Hardy

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 3 Female

Bathsheba Everdene loves three men - her devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak, neighbour farmer William Boldwood, and the shallow and dashing Sergeant Troy, whom she marriesThen Troy goes missing, presumed dead ...

$12.99

Caligula

Albert Camus adapted Justin O'Brien

Samuel French Inc

Caligula explores the absolutism of power and the catastrophe of tyranny Caesar summons his council, whose first thought is of taxes "Very well", says Caesar, "if taxes are more important than human heart...

$10.99

The Late Great Me

David Rogers from Sandra Scoppettone

Dramatic Publishing

David Rogers, who also wrote Flowers for Algernon, has turned this popular novel into a touching, hard-hitting play that probes beneath the surface of a major problem of today - teenage alcoholism Shy a...

$10.99

Treasure Island

Stuart Paterson from Robert Louis Stevenson

Nick Hern Books

A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story ... When young Jim Hawkins is left a treasure map by the dying buccaneer Billy Bones,...

$14.99

Flower Drum Song

David Henry Hwang - based on Oscar Hammerstein & Joseph Fields & C Y Lee & Richard Rodgers

Theatre Communications

One of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most compelling love stories is re-made enchantingly in a new adaptation by the renowned Asian-American playwright, David Henry Hwang This new version was a runaway hit las...

$12.99

The Country of the Blind

Frank Higgins from H.G. Wells

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 3 Female

Eduardo, a poor farmer in a South American village, dreams of being in love Frustrated by his poverty and disability of being blind in one eye, he turns his back on his own world and risks his life to find ...

$10.99

A Matter of Life and Death

Tom Morris & Emma Rice

Oberon

Here in this tear, are love and truth and friendship, those qualities alone can build a new world today and must build a better one tomorrow It is 1945. A young airman jumps to certain death from his burni...

$14.99

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Mary & Andrew Arnault from Washington Irving

Dramatic Publishing

8 Male 7 Female

Early on a September morning the villagers of Sleepy Hollow await their new schoolmaster When Ichabod finally arrives, his priggish correctness casts a pall over the gossipy, prank-playing townsfolk So...

$11.99

The Brontes - Eccentric Lives

Robert Johanson

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 4 Female

This unique performance piece, which can be presented book-in-hand or fully staged, highlights the extraordinary and eccentric lives of the Brontë family - most notably Charlotte and Emily, the authors of ...

$9.99

Captains and Courage

Israel Horovitz from Rudyard Kipling

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

In Kipling's nineteenth-century story, Harvey Cheyne, an obnoxious rich boy, falls from the deck of a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing boat, the "We're Here," owned by a black captain, Disko Troop...

$13

Far from the Madding Crowd

Mark Healy from Thomas Hardy

Nick Hern Books

Having inherited her father's farm, the spirited and feisty young Bathsheba Everdene finds herself playing mistress in a man's world She is pursued by three would-be lovers - the constant shepherd, Gabriel ...

$14.99

The Three Musketeers

Willis Hall from Alexandre Dumas

Samuel French Ltd

4 Female

Following his successful stage adaptations of Jane Eyre and Mansfield Park, the author brings Dumas' swashbuckling tale to the stage in a fast paced, often tongue in cheek romp of action packed adventure St...

$12.99

Kes

Lawrence Till from Barry Hines

Nick Hern Books

A new stage adaptation of Barry Hines' well known film and novel "Sensitively scripted and stunningly staged, Kes is essentially about a community which fails its young. At its heart is Billy, an apparently...

$14.99

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Simon Adorian from Robert Louis Stevenson

Collins

What happened to Dr Jekyll ? In this dramatisation "Strange Cases", an investigative TV documentary programme, tries to solve this puzzle using up-to-date-know-how. Key scenes are re-constructed and expert ...

$13.99