Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Jane Eyre

Willis Hall from Charlotte Bronte

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 8 Female

A complete and enchanting stage adaptation of the fictional tale of the penniless, plain Jane Eyre With simple staging Hall breaks the action up into short interconnected scenes and shares the passages of n...

$12.99

Light

Complicite - Theatre de Complicite - Simon McBurney from Torgny Lindgren

Oberon

A man goes on a journey in search of love and returns to his village carrying death in the form of a plague-ridden rabbit The village is ravaged by sickness, and of those who survive, none any longer knows ...

$14.99

Hedda Gabler

Jon Robin Baitz from Henrik Ibsen

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Ibsen's most beguiling antiheroine is given a new twist in Jon Robin Baitz's acclaimed adaptation of Hedda Gabler She's no longer the chilly, inscrutable manipulator but a woman with, as the New York Tim...

$13

The Prince and the Pauper

Anne Coulter Martens from Mark Twain

Dramatic Publishing

8 Female

When Prince Edward changes clothes with Tom Canty, the beggar boy, no one in the audience will have difficulty in telling the actors apart, but through the magic of theatre, everybody on the stage is convinc...

$10.99

Treasure Island

Willis Hall & Denis King

Samuel French Ltd

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of swashbuckling pirates is brought to dramatic life in this exciting musical adaptation by Willis Hall. All Stevenson's colourful characters are present - from the ras...

$12.99

Beauty and the Beast

Laurence Boswell

Nick Hern Books

Here we encounter two worlds - the domestic world of Beauty's family in mid-eighteenth-century France, safe and familiar And another world, first stumbled upon by her merchant father: a place of great ric...

$14.99

Around the World in Eighty Days

Phil Willmott & Annemarie Lewis Thomas from Jules Verne

Samuel French Ltd

"Jules Verne's 19C adventure yarn, featuring the intrepid Phileas Fogg and guiless servant Passepartout, is conjured with much playfulness, wit and ingenuity" - Time Out Book only - Score On Hire

$12.99

The Castle

David Fishelson & Aaron Leichter from a dramatization by Max Brod based on Franz Kafka

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 3 Female

By turns sexy, comic and horrifying, this new stage version of The Castle tells the story of a man who decides to fight a monstrous bureaucracy rather than give in to it, attempting and failing to gain ent...

$13

Moby Dick

Mark Rosenwinkel from Herman Melville

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 0 Female

Ishmael, a young man in search of adventure, first mate, Stubb, and Queequeg, the mystical Polynesian harpooner ("he's the son of a cannibal king, they say."), set off aboard the Pequod, a whaling ship pi...

$10.99

The Bluest Eye - USA/CANADA ONLY

Lydia R. Diamond from Toni Morrison

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 6 Female

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940s Ohio Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved by her fam...

$11.99

The Invisible Man

Ken Hill from H.G Wells

Samuel French Ltd

4 Female

This gripping novel has been converted to a music hall romp that combines tongue in cheek humor with poignant tragedy and spectacular magic. In a performance supposedly taking place at the Empire in Bromley ...

$12.99

Black Elk Speaks

Christopher Sergel from John Neihardt

Dramatic Publishing

This uniquely colorful and entirely authentic play has had highly successful productions at the Denver Center Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum At every performance, without exception, it received a standing ...

$11.99

Morte d' Arthur

Mike Poulton from Thomas Malory

Nick Hern Books

6 Female

Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is a cornerstone of English literature, and has captured the imagination of generations Here, Mike Poulto...

$14.99

Carrie's War

Emma Reeves from Nina Bawden

Oberon

When the Second World War air raids threaten their safety in the city, Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh village But the countryside has dangers and adventures of its own - and a g...

$14.99

The Jungle Book

Stuart Paterson from Rudyard Kipling

Nick Hern Books

6 Male 2 Female

Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales are given theatrical life in this acclaimed adaptation by Stuart Paterson - '... a master of children's theatre' ~ Scotsman 'This exhilarating production ticks all t...

$14.99

Ruth

Robert Leeson from Elizabeth Gaskell

Collins

In this skilful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, fifteen year old Ruth, lost and alone in the world, is apprenticed to dressmaker Mrs Mason. Falling under the influence of Henry Bellingham, a rich, ...

$15.99

Amazing Grace

Shay Youngblood from Mary Hoffman

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 7 Female

"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own She also makes up her own stories, acting out the mo...

$10.99

The Late Great Me

David Rogers from Sandra Scoppettone

Dramatic Publishing

David Rogers, who also wrote Flowers for Algernon, has turned this popular novel into a touching, hard-hitting play that probes beneath the surface of a major problem of today - teenage alcoholism Shy a...

$10.99

Treasure Island

Stuart Paterson from Robert Louis Stevenson

Nick Hern Books

A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story ... When young Jim Hawkins is left a treasure map by the dying buccaneer Billy Bones,...

$14.99

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