Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Frankenstein

Alden Nowlan & Walter Learning from Mary Shelley

Dramatic Publishing

Mary Shelley wrote the original when she was 19, after she and her lover, the 22-year-old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend Lord Byron agreed that each would write a ghost story Mary's living c...

$10.99

Brave New World

David Rogers from Aldous Huxley

Dramatic Publishing

1 Female

The play is set in the future where mindless happiness is universal; where babies are not born but decanted from bottles; where human frustrations are eliminated by happiness drugs Into this society comes J...

$10.99

Searching for Eden - the Diaries of Adam & Eve

James Still from Mark Twain

Dramatic Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

More than a hundred years after Mark Twain wrote his own short stories about Adam and Eve, James Still combines those stories for Act One of Searching for Eden, and then imagines Adam and Eve in the present ...

$10.99

The Red Shoes - A Fairy-tale with Music

Hans Josef Schmidt from Hans Christian Andersen

Dramatic Publishing

The story deals with the waif Karen who has no shoes Through the machinations of an Old Soldier she is led to secure red shoes by deceit When she puts on the shoes she changes from an appealing child t...

$10.99

1984 - Dramatic Publishing Edition

Robert Owens & Wilton E Hall Jr & William A Miles Jr from George Orwell

Dramatic Publishing

"I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe that something resembling it could arrive. The moral to be drawn from the dangerous nightmare situation is a simpl...

$11.99

A Little Princess

June Walker Rogers from Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 1 Female

Sara Crewe is one of the most beloved fictional heroines, and June Walker Rogers has brought her to life in this funny, sad, wonderfully imaginative adaptation Audiences will identify with Sara as she b...

$10.99

Native Son

Paul Green & Richard Wright from Richard Wright

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Matthew Francis from Mark Twain

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

Huckleberry Finn's adventurous journey along the Mississippi River is skillfully captured in this exciting approach to thid epic story Minimal set and prop devices illustrate the many locations. This truly ...

$12.99

Animal Farm

Ian Wooldridge from George Orwell

Nick Hern Books

This new dramatisation of Orwell's enduring parable on the perils of totalitarianism remains extremely faithful to the original, retaining both its affection for the animals and the inciciveness of its messa...

$14.99

My Antonia

Charles Jones from Willa Cather

Samuel French Inc

This faithful adaptation brings the wonderful romantic novel's profoundly human characters and its expansive view of 19th century American frontier life vibrantly to the stage The play celebrates Antonia's ...

$10.99

Rebecca

Clifford Williams from Daphne du Maurier

Samuel French Ltd

8 Male 3 Female

Classic mystery set in remote Cornwall in the 1940s where the dashing Max de Winter brings his shy new bride to Manderley, his great house in Cornwall Everywhere, she senses the overpowering presence of Reb...

$12.99

The Wicked Lady

Bryony Lavery

Oberon

6 Male 6 Female

This is a stage adaptation of the original novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall ... Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked Forced into a respectable...

$14.99

Lady of the Camellias

William Lang from Alexandre Dumas

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 4 Female

This modern adaptation of one of the world's greatest theatrical classics tells the story of the young and beautiful Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gautier Called Camille because of her fondness for the c...

$9.99

David Copperfield

Ian Mullens from Charles Dickens

Josef Weinberger

1 Female

Scrupulously faithful to Dickens' original, its remarkable achievement is that the audience leaves the theatre with the impression it really has witnessed a dramatisation of the entire book in a little ove...

$15.99

Crime and Punishment

Marilyn Campbell & Curt Columbus from Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 1 Female

This new, award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky's literary masterpiece Crime and Punishment is told by three actors playing Raskolnikov (the murderer), Porfiry Petrovitch (the detective), Sonia (the you...

$11.99

Great Expectations

Robert Johanson from Charles Dickens

Dramatic Publishing

5 Female

At its premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse audience and critics cheered this new adaptation of one of the greatest novels in the English language - a story of pride and ambition blinding a soul to the true ...

$10.99

The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Play

John Osborne from Oscar Wilde

Samuel French Inc

4 Female

John Osborne has created a brilliant dramatization of this classic about a man who retains his youth while the decay of advancing years and moral corruption appears on a portrait painted by one of his lover...

$10.99

The Homecoming

Christopher Sergel from Earl Hamner Jr

Dramatic Publishing

Known on television as The Waltons, they're called The Spencers in the original book, which is how they're named here The time is the Great Depression and the large Spencer family, living at the foot of...

$13.99

Splendor in the Grass

F. Andrew Leslie from William Inge

Dramatists Play Service

Good looking, a star athlete, and son of the richest man in town, Bud Stamper is the prize catch in his high school class, and Deanie Loomis is the girl lucky enough to get him But both Bud and Deanie ar...

$13

Playing With Fire - after Frankenstein

Barbara Field from Mary Shelley

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 1 Female

As the play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at la...

$13