Plays by Genre - Adaptations

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Edward Albee from Carson McCullers

Dramatists Play Service

6 Female

Amelia, the proprietor of the Sad Cafe, throws her new husband out of their bedroom on their wedding night. Torn between anger and desire the husband finally leaves town only to return some years later to fi...

$13

Dark Play or Stories for Boys

Carlos Murillo

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

The girl in Nick's bed wants to know why his abdomen is covered in scars Does Nick tell the truth, or does he do what he does so well - weave an elaborate tale? The question launches him into a memory - a...

$13

The Just So Stories - PLAY VERSION

Joseph Robinette from Rudyard Kipling

Dramatic Publishing

Five of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, including How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin and How the Elephant Got His Trunk are included here The tales are brought vividly to life...

$10.99

The Chocolate War

Joseph Robinette from Robert Cormier

Dramatic Publishing

6 Female

Robert Cormier's brilliant novel The Chocolate War is a compelling coming-of-age story about young people in conflict at a New England prep school The richly drawn characterizations and crackling dialogu...

$10.99

The Snow Queen

Colin Wakefield & Kate Edgar

Josef Weinberger

A panto-style, musical adaptation of the ever popular tale from Hans Christian Anderson Cast size is very flexible

$15.99

Long Before Wendy

Katie DiPietro

Cyberpress

"Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan, the courageous young man who ruled over Neverland with a band of lost boys, fought the evil Pirate Captain, and fell in love with Wendy This story is wonderful and ex...

$7.99

Rough Magic Theatre Company

Patrick Lonergan - Editor

Methuen

This book showcases outstanding new Irish playwriting, blending work by established and emerging playwrights, and also acts as a celebration of one of Ireland's most important and daring theatre companies T...

$34.95

The Jungle Book

Jessica Swale

Nick Hern Books

Rudyard Kipling's beloved tale of family, belonging and identity has been re-imagined in this acclaimed adaptation by Jessica Swale with original songs by Joe Stilgoe The Jungle Book tells the story of Mow...

$12.99

Teenage Dick

Mike Lew

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 4 Female

In this brilliant retelling of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of the most famous disabled characters in history is re-imagined as a 16-year-old outsider taking on the political turmoil of high school Bullie...

$13

Another Medea

Aaron Mark

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 0 Female

A full-length one-man play ... Marcus Sharp is a charismatic and enigmatic New York actor He recounts in gruesome detail how his obsessions with a wealthy doctor named Jason and the myth of Medea lead to h...

$13

Tinker Bell

Patrick Flynn from J.M. Barrie

Dramatic Publishing

A new, twinkling light shines on all the characters you love as J.M. Barrie's story is reborn from this feisty fairy's point of view Everyone thinks they know Peter Pan But until you have heard Tinker Bell...

$10.95

The Secret River

Andrew Bovell from Kate Grenville

Nick Hern Books

A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history adapted from Kate Grenville's acclaimed novel William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales, deported as a convict from the slums of Lond...

$15.99

Ten Boom the Musical

Susan Meredith Beyer & Donna Marquean Griggs from Corrie ten Boom

Cyberpress

Ten Boom the Musical is based on The Hiding Place, the true story of Dutch author and Nazi Holocaust survivor Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom and her family risked their lives hiding Jews from Nazis and certa...

$7.99

Alys, Always

Lucinda Coxon from Harriet Lane

A psychological thriller excavating the fault lines that separate the entitled from the rest Frances works on the books pages of a Sunday newspaper She's quiet and capable, but nobody takes much notice - h...

$14.99

The Heart of Robin Hood

David Farr

Faber & Faber

The notorious mean and grumpy Robin Hood and his band of outlaws steal from the rich, creating a fearsome reputation amongst those who dare to travel through Sherwood forest But they don't share their spoil...

$14.99

Whisky Galore - STAGE ADAPTATION

Philip Goulding from Compton Mackenzie

Nick Hern Books

0 Male 7 Female

Whisky Galore combines rollicking physical theatre, panto and farce, with an array of hilarious characters, perfect for any female-led theatre company It's 1955 and the Pallas Players, an all-female theatre...

$14.99

Antony

Alexandre Dumas trans Laurence Senelick

Broadway Play Publishing

Anthony is not a melodrama, Anthony is not a tragedy, Anthony is not a stage play. Anthony is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts ~ Alexandre Dumas (père) After an absence of three years,...

$15.99

An Actor's Carol

Charles Evered

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 1 Female

Burned-out actor Hugh Pendleton is not-so-fresh from playing Scrooge one too many times in the backwater community theatre where his once promising career has met its unglamorous end But now on Christmas Ev...

$15.99

The Three Musketeers - A Comedy Adventure

John Nicholson & Le Navet Bete

Nick Hern Books

A comedy adventure that will have you and your clan laughing all the way from here to the guillotineArmed only with a baguette, D'Artagnan travels to Paris to become a musketeer Will things go to plan? ...

$14.99

Wise Children

Emma Rice from Angela Carter

Oberon

"Let's have all the skeletons out of the closet, today, of all days!" It's 23 April, Shakespeare's birthday And in Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river are cele...

$14.99