Plays by Genre - Adaptations

All Quiet on the Western Front

John McDonald from Erich Maria Remarque

Cyberpress

8 Male 2 Female

Nineteen-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates Tjaden, Muller, Kropp and Kat enlist in the German army during World War I, full of youthful enthusiasm and patriotism But their eagerness soon turns to d...

$7.99

One Man, Two Guvnors

Richard Bean

Oberon

This smash-hit comedy was nominated for seven 2012 Tony Awards Based on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters, this new English version puts sex, food and money high on the agend...

$14.99

The Picture of Dorian Gray

John McDonald from Oscar Wilde

Cyberpress

5 Male 2 Female

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Captured by the belief that youth and beauty are the center of life, Dorian Gray maintains his youthful outward appearance ...

$7.99

Machiavelli and The Prince

Gary Graves

Cyberpress

2 Male 0 Female

Summoned out of exile by the new duke of Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli offers his former student a gift - a short handwritten essay, the "handbook for tyrants" we have since come to know as The Prince ...

$7.99

Jack

John Trent

Cyberpress

5 Male 1 Female

Not far away in the make believe town of Jack, there lived five friends all named Jack Most friends have something in common, but when these five friends meet, they realize they have nothing in common ...

$7.99

Glimpses of the Moon

Tajlei Levis & John Mercurio from Edith Wharton

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Based on the novel by Edith Wharton and set amid the whirl of 1922 Manhattan society, this sparkling musical comedy features a jazzy danceable score and a timeless romantic story With plenty of friends but ...

$10.99

Bluebeard

Michele Pittenger

Cyberpress

5 Male 5 Female

A husband hides a murderous secret Can his young wife survive the truth? Just as her husband returns from a business trip, Dora discovers a secret room holding the bodies of several women She has committe...

$7.99

Alice in Wonderland

Timothy Quigley from Lewis Carroll

Cyberpress

True to the original with some modern twists and zany characters Play in two acts. All children or mix in some adults Suitable for Children's Theatre and Community Theatre Has been produced in a Community C...

$7.99

Frankenstein

Timothy Quigley from Mary Shelley

Cyberpress

6 Female

This adaptation of the greatest horror story ever written is true to Mary Shelley's novel, which has far more drama and tragedy than the Hollywood versions The main characters are first introduced as child...

$7.99

Heaven Sent - A Contemporary Religious Comedy

Patrick Dorn

Cyberpress

4 Male 3 Female

This free-wheeling, fun-loving supernatural fantasy adventure and romantic comedy is about an angel who helps a hopelessly naive lad fight a demon, marry a damsel in distress and heal a father's blindness...

$7.99

Twas The Night Before A Christmas Carol

Timothy Quigley

Cyberpress

Dickens has promised his children that on Christmas Day the family will act out his first ever Christmas story However, it's Christmas Eve, and he has writer's blockHis crusty British butler and their wit...

$7.99

The School Inspector

Kerr Lockhart

Cyberpress

Inspired by Gogol's classic, The Inspector General, the play tells of two con artists, male and female, who stumble into an extremely corrupt and shoddy school district which is about to be inspected by the ...

$7.99

Alexandre and Camille

Paul Kuritz

Cyberpress

6 Male 6 Female

Alexandre and Camille pits novelist Alexandre Dumas against his hero Armand Duval for the love of his character Camille, in a unique mix of Romanticism, Theatricalism, and Post-Modernism TO READ THE OPENING...

$7.99

Emma

Michael Bloom from Jane Austen

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 6 Female

Stage adaptation of Jane Austen's classic comedy of manners Pledging never to marry, the mischievous Emma Woodhouse is nevertheless the "matchmaker of Highbury" Her newest project, Harriet Smith, has al...

$10.99

The 39 Steps

Patrick Barlow from John Buchan & Alfred Hitchcock

Samuel French

3 Male 1 Female

Winner of two Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Award and the Best New Comedy Laurence Olivier Award, The 39 Steps is Broadway's longest running comedyMix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash...

$12.99

Tom Sawyer

Paul Kester from Samuel L Clemens

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

The Water Babies - SCORE ONLY

Willis Hall

Samuel French Ltd

The Water Babies (score) A play by Willis Hall, with songs by John Cooper Based on the story by Charles Kingsley

$21.99

Agamemnon & The Fall of the House of Usher

Steven Berkoff

AmberLane Press

Adapted from Aeschylus' great tragedy, Berkoff's version of Agamemnon is about the heat of battle, fatigue, the marathon, and the obscenity of modern and future warsIn The Fall of the House of Usher, he take...

$16.99 , $15.29 (10% off)

The History of Tom Jones - A One Act Comedy

Dennis M. Maganza from Henry Fielding

Dramatic Publishing

One-act stage adaptation of Henry Fieldings classic novel Tom, a foundling, is in love with beautiful Sophia Although her father envies Tom's reputation as a daredevil and womanizer, he wouldn't consider l...

$10.95

Jayne Eyre

Helen Jerome from Charlotte Bronte

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male 9 Female

The play is a dramatic version of the novel, though it offers a more or less condensation of the story Jane comes to Thornfield, Mr Rochester's house, to be a governess to Adele, Mr Rochester's ward Mr. Ro...

$12.99