Plays by Genre - Adaptations

The Devils

John Whiting from Aldous Huxley

Samuel French Ltd

6 Female

In 17th century France, a worldly priest has a special attraction for the ladies especially for a psychotic prioress whom he spurns. She avenges herself by feigning diabolical possession by his incubus. The ...

$12.99

Recipe for a Crime

Reginald Denham from Alfonso Paso

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 3 Female

A free adaptaion of Receta Para un Crimen by Alfonso Paso In their tour of Mexico, Charles and Emlyn arrive at a remote inn in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains and a surprise encounter with ...

$13

The Trial & Metamophosis & In the Penal Colony

Steven Berkoff from Franz Kafka

AmberLane Press

In the Penal Colony was Berkoff's first professional production, performed at London's experimental theatre, the Arts Lab, Drury Lane, in 1968. It is a strange tale of torture and suffering featuring a macab...

$16.99

Taming of the Shrew

Lindsay Price

Theatrefolk

5 Male 3 Female

Open the door to Shakespearean performance with these special adaptations where each page has a sidebar with word translations, acting tips, and character suggestions

$14.99

Miss Roach's War

Richard Kane from Patrick Hamilton

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 5 Female

A charming adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's story set in 1943 of the elderly people who spend their days in the Rosamund Tea Rooms. Bickering and gossiping leads to minor wars and Enid Roach makes two unfort...

$12.99

Love and Money

Dennis Kelly

Oberon

David conducts an office romance by e-mail He has love at his fingertips, but a shocking admission unravels his relationship piece by chilling piece Jess loves David and believes happiness can be bought ...

$14.99

Darkness Falls - The Monkey's Paw & The Dark

Jonathan Holloway from W.W. Jacobs

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 1 Female

This spooky double-bill offers an excellent adaptation of Jacob's classic macabre short story The Monkey's Paw about an ordinary family given three wishes The second - The Dark - concerns a successful nov...

$12.99

Dreams of Anne Frank

Bernard Kops

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 4 Female

Hope and fantasy mingle in Anne's adolescent mind in this highly theatrical and imaginative interpretation of the famous story of how Anne and her family succeeded in hiding from the Nazis for more than two ...

$12.99

Pioneer Go Home

Herman Rauscher from Richard Powell

Dramatic Publishing

8 Male 9 Female

After all his years on government relief and benefits, Pop Kwimper figures he is part of the government Aside from Pop, there's Toby Kwimper and the now-permanent babysitter Holly Jones, who is beautiful...

$9.99

Much Ado About Nothing

John Minigan from William Shakepeare

Theatrefolk

4 Male 4 Female

Open the door to Shakespearean performance with these special adaptations Each page has a sidebar with word translations, acting tips, and character suggestions These scripts have also found success in Eng...

$14.99

The Egg and I

Anne Coulter Martens from Betty MacDonald

Dramatic Publishing

"Chickens?" gasps Betty MacDonald when her husband Don buys a little farm in the mountains "Who, us?" shriek teenage Anne and Joan when asked to help. But they find themselves surrounded by peeping chick...

$9.99

A Christmas Carol

John Jakes from Charles Dickens

Dramatic Publishing

This A Christmas Carol goes beyond other adaptations with a unique dramatic concept At the opening curtain, Charles Dickens himself is introduced to the audience, ready to present one of the famed platfo...

$9.99

Mmmbeth

Allison Williams

Theatrefolk

0 Male 4 Female

An hilarious gender-bending take on the Scottish play! Everything goes wrong as the Witches take over the storytelling ... Queen Duncan would rather open a donut franchise than die Lady M's a bloodthirs...

$14.99

Heidi

June Walker Rogers from Johanna Spyri

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 9 Female

This story of Heidi, the little orphan girl who brings new hope to everyone her life touches, glows even more endearingly today than it has for generations The way Heidi brings her gruff, old hermit gran...

$10.95

The Boat Plays - The Boat to Hell & The Boat to Purgatory & The Boat to Heaven

Gil Vicente adapt/trans David Johnston

Absolute Classics

A trilogy of medieval morality plays that remain fiercely relevant today Portuguese dramatist, Gil Vicente, puts humanity in the dock in three religious plays written between 1516 and 1519

$19.99

Anna K

Eugenie Leontovich from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 5 Female

"A full dramatization of Tolstoy's masterpiece extraordinarily economic and therefore extraordinarily complete within a Pirandellian outer framework of actors assembling, talking, interrupting their own role...

$10.99

Beowulf - Rock opera version of the Anglo-Saxon epic drama

Kenneth Pickering & Keith Cole

Samuel French Ltd

9 Male 4 Female

Rock opera version of the Anglo-Saxon epic drama Set in 500 AD, Viking hero Beowulf defeats the evil monster Grendel and wins Princess Hygd But then he has to confront the invincible Dragon ... Score ava...

$12.99

Little Women

Kristin Laurence from Louisa May Alcott

Dramatic Publishing

0 Male 9 Female

This dramatisation begins that memorable Christmas when Marmee leaves to visit her sick husband and Jo sells her beautiful hair to help finance the trip It ends just a year later when the happy family is ag...

$10.95

Animal Farm

Peter Hall from George Orwell

Heinemann

This is the acclaimed 1984 National Theatre Peter Hall version It starts with a schoolboy sitting down to read the famous fable And as he does so, the Farmyard slowly comes to life ... Also includes Lyr...

$19.99

Cyrano

Barry Kornhauser from Edmond Rostand

Dramatic Publishing

Highly acclaimed productions from the Fulton Opera House to The Shakespeare Theatre Cyrano! His wit is as sharp as his sword, the enormity of his talent, intellect, and passion matched only by the enormi...

$10.95