Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Cyra and Rocky

Cherie Bennett

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

International best-selling writer Cherie Bennett deftly adapts Cyrano de Bergerac in this side-splitting but poignant story, set in modern America The Cyrano character, Cyrana (called Cyra) Berger, is a ...

$10.99

The Diary of Anne Frank

Francis Goodrich & Albert Hackett - NEW EDITION adapted Wendy Kesselman

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 5 Female

In this gripping new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, from the original stage play by Goodrich and Hackett, newly discovered writings from the diary of Anne Frank, as well as survivor accounts, are interwoven ...

$14

Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion

Euripides adapt Hilda H Doolittle

New Directions

Brilliant reworkings of Euripides' classic dramas by the great modernist poet now together in one volume for the first time

$19.99

Around the World in 80 Days

Mark Brown from Jules Verne

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 1 Female

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Unabashedly slapstick! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Join fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant as they...

$11.99

Maskerade

Stephen Briggs from Terry Pratchett

Samuel French Ltd

All is not well in the Ankh-Morpork Opera HouseA ghost stalks the dark corridors, leaving strange letters for the management And killing people! Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investiga...

$12.99

A Tale of Two Cities

Matthew Francis from Charles Dickens

Samuel French Ltd

A moving and exciting adaptation of Dicken's classic story of the English lawyer and the French aristocrat caught up inextricably in the violence and bloodshed of the French Revolution. Played on simple set,...

$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

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

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

Oliver Twist

Robert Thomas Noll from Charles Dickens

Dramatic Publishing

This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life of cruel poverty and crime by an act of unselfish cou...

$10.99

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - OBERON EDITION

Adrian Mitchell from C.S. Lewis

Oberon

When this adaptation of C S Lewis' classic children's story opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company in November 1998, it received rave reviews and broke box office records Four children are evacuated fro...

$14.99

Anne of Green Gables - MUSICAL VERSION

Joseph Robinette & Evelyn Swensson from Lucy Maude Montgomery

Dramatic Publishing

This sparkling new musical further enhances the enduring story of Anne Shirley, the orphan girl whom Mark Twain called "the most delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice" The exciting, melod...

$12.99

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

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

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