Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Therese Raquin

Nicholas Wright from Emile Zola

Nick Hern Books

4 Male 3 Female

A gripping psychological thriller adapted for the stage by Émile Zola himself from his own notorious novel, in a version by Nicholas Wright ... Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband...

$14.99

Silas Marner

Geoffrey Beevers from George Eliot

Samuel French Ltd

6 Female

Eliot's story of the reclusive miser who is transformed by a young girl is one of the most moving and memorable in Victorian literatureThis adaptation captures the novel's thirty year sweep in a series of te...

$12.99

Treasure Island

Jules Eckert Goodman from Robert Louis Stevenson

Samuel French Inc

A superlative dramatization, with worlds of excitement The action stems from the Admiral Benbow Inn, where the old captain is given the death mark by the pirates. Young Jim Hawkins falls heir to the treasur...

$10.99

Jane Eyre

Polly Teale from Charlotte Bronte

Nick Hern Books

'Polly Teale has liberated Jane Eyre in a way that Charlotte Brontë could not... Her most inspired idea is to fuse the mad woman in the attic with Jane's younger self.' - Observer. 'Puts the interior life...

$14.99

Great Expectations

Hugh Leonard from Charles Dickens

Samuel French Ltd

9 Male 5 Female

This exciting adaptation of Charles Dicken's classic novel has all the haunting resonance of the original and conveys the story with great clarity and theatrical flair

$12.99

Don Quixote

Colin Teevan and Pablo Ley from Miguel de Cervantes

Oberon

A new dramatisation of one of the greatest novels ever written ... Cervantes' comic masterpiece The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, Don Quixote tells the story of a man who sets out to recreate the chiva...

$14.99

Sense and Sensibility - Full Length

Ashley J. Barnard from Jane Austen

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 7 Female

At the dawn of the Regency, two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are thrust into poverty by their brother's scheming and manipulative wife Reduced to living with their mother in a tiny cottage, their prospects...

$10.99

The Imaginary Invalid

Kenneth Weston Turner from Molière

Dramatic Publishing

8 Male 4 Female

Cranky M Argan imagines he has every ailment there is He plans to marry his daughter to a dull young doctor so he will always have a physician handy But Angelique swears she will enter a convent first, ...

$10.99

David Copperfield

Giles Havergal from Charles Dickens

Oberon

The treacherous Uriah Heep, the jovial nurse Peggotty, the adorably dim-witted Dora, the improvident Mr Micawber, and the egotistic and charming Steerforth, all come to life in this new adaptation of Dicke...

$18.99

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Kendall from Jane Austen

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 1 Female

Five daughters to marry off! Was ever a mother as put upon as Mrs. Bennet? Jane falls deeply in love with the wealthy Mr. Bingley, and it looks as if a romance is possible between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. ...

$10.99

Any Body Home?

Carl Ritchie & Elise Dewsberry

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 3 Female

Real estate broker Susan Strafficona wants to hold an open house, sell a condo and earn her commission Frustrating her attempts are the owner's fiancé who is bursting to prove his masculinity; the little ...

$10.99

Great Expectations

Barbara Field from Charles Dickens

Dramatists Play Service

4 Female

A rich theatrical re-telling of the famous classic which captures the full flavour and style of Dickens' immortal novel Using a simple unit set and making resourceful use of a brilliantly theatrical storyte...

$13

Liberty

Glyn Maxwell

Oberon

April 1793, the French Revolution is four years old and the Committee of Public Safety under Robespierre finds threats to national liberty at home and abroad When Gamelin, an ambitious and idealistic young ...

$14.99

The Mill on the Floss

Sue Saunders from George Eliot

Collins

Maggie is always in trouble with her family, but as she and her brother Tom discover, blood is thicker than water. The issues of gender roles, disability, families, growing up and unemployment are explained...

$13.99

Christmas in the Land of Oz

Ruth Perry from L Frank Baum

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 7 Female

Reviews across the country herald this new version - "only Peter Pan matches it for natural hilarity The two are alike in understanding what children want a play to be: an extension of their own play wit...

$10.99

Adam Bede

Geoffrey Beevers from George Eliot

Samuel French Ltd

18C tragi-comic romance - young carpenter Adam Bede loves dairymaid Hetty Sorrel, who dreams of young squire Arthur

$12.99

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Edward Albee from Carson McCullers

Dramatists Play Service

6 Female

Amelia, the proprietor of the Sad Cafe, throws her new husband out of their bedroom on their wedding night. Torn between anger and desire the husband finally leaves town only to return some years later to fi...

$13

Dark Play or Stories for Boys

Carlos Murillo

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

The girl in Nick's bed wants to know why his abdomen is covered in scars Does Nick tell the truth, or does he do what he does so well - weave an elaborate tale? The question launches him into a memory - a...

$13

The Just So Stories - PLAY VERSION

Joseph Robinette from Rudyard Kipling

Dramatic Publishing

Five of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, including How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin and How the Elephant Got His Trunk are included here The tales are brought vividly to life...

$10.99

The Chocolate War

Joseph Robinette from Robert Cormier

Dramatic Publishing

6 Female

Robert Cormier's brilliant novel The Chocolate War is a compelling coming-of-age story about young people in conflict at a New England prep school The richly drawn characterizations and crackling dialogu...

$10.99