Plays by Genre - Adaptations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therese Raquin

Neal Bell from Emile Zola

Broadway Play Publishing

5 Male 3 Female

"Neal Bell's exciting new adaptation, from the novel, keeps the grit and erotic animality, but throws out the cumbersome apparatus, letting the sordid story breath and compressing it into a series of tight,...

$12.99

A Christmas Carol

Jerry Patch from Charles Dickens

Broadway Play Publishing

5 Female

"One of the pleasures of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' timeless tale of grinchiness transformed into generosity through the bewitching power of the Christmas spirit, lies in the familiarity Just as ...

$12.99

First Impressions

Abe Burrows from Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'

Samuel French Inc

Mrs. Bennett faces the problem of marrying her five daughters to men of social status and wealth. Not that the Bennett's are impoverished. The principal romance is that of Darcy, the social snob, and Elizabe...

$10.99

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

Monster

Neal Bell from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Broadway Play Publishing

4 Male 3 Female

" ... this slick and streamlined new stage adaptation of the Frankenstein saga is faithful to Shelley, if not in all the exhaustive details, then at least insofar as it seizes on its thematic highlights ...

$15.99

Ethan Frome

Gary Blackwood from Edith Wharton

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

A highly theatrical but faithful adaptation of Edith Wharton's romantic and tragic short novel of rural Massachusetts life around the turn of the twentieth century The play alternates between two distinct t...

$10.99

Lord of the Flies

Nigel Williams from William Golding

Faber & Faber

0 Female

Stage adaptation of William Golding's celebrated novel premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company This special Acting Edition is particularly suitable for schools and amateur groups As well as the full pl...

$12.99

The Last Leaf

William Glennon from O. Henry

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

Sally and Beth, fresh out of art school, live in a crowded attic in Greenwich Village Determined to break through the barriers of a male-dominated art world at the turn of the century, they share their g...

$9.99

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

William Glennon from Margaret Sidney

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 5 Female

From Margaret Sidney's ever-popular novel, William Glennon has fashioned a truly funny and heartwarming entertainment for the whole family What can the future hold for a loving widowed mom, struggling a...

$9.99