Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Sleeping Beauty

Jez Bond & Mark Cameron

Methuen

3 Male 3 Female

There will come a point in every witch's life where the scales are tipped so far to one side that the world, nature, humanity - whatever you want to call it - finally fights back Sleeping Beauty is the fair...

$15.99

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Simon Reade from Lewis Caroll

Methuen

6 Male 2 Female

TMA Award for Best Show for Young People When Alice falls down a mysterious rabbit hole she stumbles upon a magical fantasy world where anything can happen ... Take tea with the Mad Hatter, meet the White...

$15.99

Wendy & Peter Pan

Ella Hickson from J M Barrie

Nick Hern Books

The Royal Shakespeare Company's Christmas Show is always one of the highlights of the UK's theatre calender And in 2013 they offered a delightfully subversive spin on one the world's most-loved children's c...

$14.99

Let the Right One In

Jack Thorne from John Ajvide Lindqvist

Nick Hern Books

7 Male 2 Female

A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and award-winning film ... Oskar is a bullied lonely teenage boy living with his mother at the edge of town where a spate o...

$14.99

A Christmas Carol - The Musical

Vyki Sabo

Cyberpress

Looking for a Christmas musical with a highly adjustable cast? Most of the language is original Dickens, but the music and lyrics are all unique to this delightful new version of a mean, miserly Scrooge wh...

$7.99

Wizard of Oz

Elizabeth F Chapman from L Frank Baum

Samuel French Inc

Play - non-musical - adaptation of the famous story ... Dorothy finds herself in the land of the Munchkins, and must journey to see the Wizard of Oz Her path takes her past fantastic places, and endears he...

$10.99

The Last Tycoon

Simon Levy from F Scott Fitzgerald

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece set in the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 30s is the tragedy of a man obsessed ... Monroe Stahr - loosely based on legendary producer Irving Thalberg - is in a fight with P...

$13

The Best of Everything

Julie Kramer from Rona Jaffe

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 6 Female

"It's Stage Door in a Mad Men world, with a jigger of Peyton Place" ~ Time Out NY A new adaptation of Rona Jaffe's 1958 bestseller about ambitious secretaries in the big city These girls want thrilling car...

$13

Jungle Book

Margaret Larlham

Cyberpress

"What footprints are we leaving on the earth?" The question is embedded in this action-packed updated version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book In a secret jungle in a City Park - a magic place bounded by...

$7.99

Peter Pan and Wendy

Margaret Larlham

Cyberpress

This enchanting show as much fun to perform as it is to watch! It's all about 'growing up'! For modern audiences it offers a condensed and updated version, faithful to the spirit of the original story Th...

$7.99

Candide

Mark Ravenhill

Methuen

All the world's an Xbox and you're a player Candide is an optimist, a dreamer He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds But that belief is about to be tested as Candi...

$15.99

Tender is the Night

Simon Levy from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 5 Female

The carefree swirl of the Jazz Age ... and the tragic romance of Dick and Nicole Diver is skillfuly brought to the stage Fitzgerald's "favorite novel" is the story of their passionate love affair and their ...

$13

Birds of a Feather

Marc Acito

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

Winner of the 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play! WARNING: This tale of two penguins may offend Birds of a Feather recounts the controversial story of Roy and Silo, two Central Park Zoo penguins who ...

$10.99

Crime and Punishment

Chris Hannan from Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nick Hern Books

An exciting, fresh and accessible stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky's great novel ... Starving, destitute student Raskolnikov is surrounded by the harsh injustices of the world - the grime of poverty and pros...

$14.99

A Christmas Carol

Gary Owen from Charles Dickens

Methuen

This time the Christmas classic is adapted for the stage with a contemporary sensibility by award-winning playwright Gary Owen Tucked up in his old, decaying house on a cold Christmas Eve, lonely, curmudge...

$15.99

Aesop's Fable-ous Christmas Tree

Michael Gravois

Dramatic Publishing

Aesop's fables are given a festive spin ... There's a mash-up of The Twelve Days of Christmas and The Tortoise and the Hare, where the six birds of Christmas compete in a comical race - with the turtle dove...

$10.99

Brief Encounter - STAGE ADAPTATION

Emma Rice from Noel Coward

Methuen

4 Male 3 Female

Emma Rice, Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre Company, has adapted this timeless film classic for the stage ... I'm a happily married woman. Or rather I was until a few weeks ago. This is my whole world ...

$15.99

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Laura Eason from Mark Twain

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

Join Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher in the greatest summer adventure ever told in this imaginative, highly theatrical adaptation of Mark Twain's incomparable classic Featuring the thrill of...

$13

School Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Daisy Campbell with Ken Campbell

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male 7 Female

Class 4S are taking a coach trip to an adventure Theme Park Or are they? Tricia seems to think otherwise, and convinces her classmates that they're really journeying to the centre of the Earth as part of ...

$12.99

Kes - Acting Edition

Robert Alan Evans from Barry Hines

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 0 Female

A new adaptation of the classic book A Kestrel for a Knave, Kes tells the story of a day in the life of Billy Casper; a 15-year-old boy about to leave school and determined not to end up working down the coa...

$12.99