Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Tipping the Velvet

Laura Wade from Sarah Waters

Oberon

It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall She doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life Tonight is the night she'll fall in love ... with the t...

$14.99

Mr Foote's Other Leg

Ian Kelly

Nick Hern Books

A riotously funny play exploring our obsession with celebrities, based on Ian Kelly's award-winning biography of the same name In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote Actor, satirist, im...

$14.99

The Great Gatsby

Stephen Sharkey from Scott Fitzgerald

Methuen

4 Male 3 Female

The Great American Novel is brought vividly to life in this sizzling new adaptation for the stage Mercurial Jay Gatsby's destructive passion for Daisy Buchanan is played out against the background of Long ...

$15.99

Scrooge and the Night Visitors

John Gehl from Charles Dickens

Cyberpress

3 Male 1 Female

This is a fresh adaptation of the classic Dickens Christmas story A Christmas CarolThis adaptation is very faithful to the original, and is especially suited to Readers Theatre and/or highly portable product...

$7.99

Alice in Wonderland

Ben Muir from Lewis Carroll

Cyberpress

Celebrate Lewis Carroll's timeless tale, in this Hour Long Fun Family Performance through Wonderland on a quest to find Alice Follow the White Rabbit, join the Mad Hatter for Tea And don't lose your head ...

$7.99

Three Days in the Country

Patrick Marber from Ivan Turgenev

Faber & Faber

Ivan Turgvnev's passionate, moving comedy, A Month in the Country, has been a source of inspiration for films, a ballet and the plays of Chekhov This is Patrick Marber's "Unfaithful Version" which premiered...

$12.99

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Angus Jackson from John Boyne

Nick Hern Books

Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship between two innocent boys ... Bruno has a friend called Shmuel Like Bruno...

$14.99

Dickens in America

Nigel Gearing

Oberon

1 Male 0 Female

Exceptional one-man show first produced at the UK's Bristol Old Vic in 1998 ... It scripts an imaginary lecture given by Charles Dickens on his travels to America in the nineteenth century Drawn from his...

$14.99

Cool Hand Luke

Emma Reeves from Donn Pearce

Oberon

A powerful new adaptation for the Stage based on Donn Pearce's acclaimed novel ... "Wherever you go and whatever you do, always play a real cool hand" Beneath a scorching Florida sun, Boss Godfrey watches...

$14.99

The Groundling

Marc Palmieri

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

A comedy about Love and Loss After stumbling upon an outdoor production of a Shakespeare play in Manhattan, Long Island landscaper Bob Malone returns home inspired to write a play about his troubled marria...

$13

The Three Musketeers

Tom Wood from Alexandre Dumas

Cyberpress

1625, France A young Frenchman leaves his countryside home to join the Musketeers of Paris There, he is swept into high adventure, filled with seduction, love, sword-play and brotherhood "All for one and ...

$7.99

Vanya

Tom Wood from Anton Chekhov

Cyberpress

4 Male 4 Female

1928, Canada In his late fifties, having spent his life toiling on a remote farm in Northern Alberta, Uncle Vanya has sacrificed his dreams to support his brother-in-law, an English Professor Learning that...

$7.99

Pride and Prejudice

Tom Wood from Jane Austen

Cyberpress

Stage adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel Meet the Bennets, a lower gentry family with a problem In a time when women were pawns in a man's world, the five Bennet daughters have all reached marriage...

$7.99

The Fun Fair

Simon Stephens from Odon von Horvath

Methuen

2 Male 2 Female

"I kept telling myself I wanted something more out of my life, something brighter. I had all these ideas in my head. Thing is, I had to go down so low just to try to lift my life up a little bit higher" An...

$15.99

Everyman

Carol Ann Duffy from Anon

Faber & Faber

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high ... Until Death comes calling Forced to abandon the life he has built, Everyman embarks on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend - anyone - to speak in...

$12.99

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

Annie Ryan from Eimear McBride

Faber & Faber

0 Male 1 Female

Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing was the winner of numerous literary awards including ... The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 The Desmond Elliott Prize 2014 The Kerry Grou...

$12.99

The Heir Apparent

David Ives from Jean-Francois Regnard

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

David Ives' fast and funny adaptation of Jean-François Regnard classic French farce Le Légataire Universel Paris, 1708 Eraste - a worthy though penniless young man - is in love with the fair Isabelle B...

$13

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Dramatic Publishing

One strange and dark year long ago, Halloween came early Three hours after midnight, October 24th, to be precise The exact same time that Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolled into Green Town ...

$10.99

Voodoo Macbeth

Tonya Hays from William Shakespeare

Dramatic Publishing

Shakespeare's classic tragedy comes to life in a unique way ... The setting is Bayou St. John in New Orleans where Marie Laveau invites everyone to come and watch this tragic tale "I welcome you to Bayou ...

$10.95

The Twits - Walsh Version

Enda Walsh

Nick Hern Books

Mr and Mrs Twit are not very nice In fact, they're extremely nasty They're nasty to each other And they're VILE to everyone else And they hold a family of monkeys hostage in a cage And force them to s...

$14.99