Plays by Genre - Adaptations

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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