Plays by Genre - Adaptations

Adrian Flynn from Robert Louis Stevenson

A compelling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale ... A reputable doctor's mysterious relationship with his disreputable associate is finally revealed in one of the most original and thrillin...

$17.99

Katie DiPietro

"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

Abigail Killeen & Rose Courtney from Isak Dinesen

This adaptation re-imagines Dinesen's classic tale as a rich theatrical event: deep, funny, sensual, dangerous and beautiful It brings us into the cloistered 19th-century world of two loving, devout Luthera...

$9.99

Patrick Lonergan - Editor

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

Jessica Swale

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...

$12.95

Mike Lew

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...

$9.99

Aaron Mark

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...

$9.99

Robert Waterhouse from Erich Maria Remarque

5 Male 0 Female

In October 1918 - a month before the end of World War I - Paul Bäumer is shot and killed by a sniper on the Western Front He is the last of his classmates to fall in a war that will destroy many in his gene...

$9.99

Patrick Flynn from J.M. Barrie

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...

$8.99

Andrew Bovell from Kate Grenville

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...

$15.95

Susan Meredith Beyer & Donna Marquean Griggs from Corrie ten Boom

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

$7.99

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...

$14.95

David Farr

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...

$12.99

Philip Goulding from Compton Mackenzie

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...

$12.99

Will Averill

Something is rotting in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet may be the only one who is on to it With the help of his friend Horatio and cousin Laertes, Hamlet solves the mystery of his mother's marriage to his...

$8.99

Alexandre Dumas trans Laurence Senelick

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,...

$15.95

Charles Evered

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...

$15.95

John Nicholson & Le Navet Bete

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

$12.99

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

'Men, who forgetting they were born of women, nourished of women, and if they were not of the means of women, they would be quite extinguished out of the world, and a final end of them all; do like vipers de...

$14.95

Emma Rice from Angela Carter

"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...

$14.95