Plays by Genre - Adaptations

A Momentary Lapse of Insanity

Chloe Joseph

Cyberpress

3 Male 3 Female

The play is a modernisation of an event that took place in the 1970s which involved the kidnapping of an heiress called Patty HearstAn actress is kidnapped by a communist group and is forced to join them und...

$7.99

Jekyll and Hyde

Adapted by Neil Bartlett from Robert Louis Stevenson

Nick Hern Books

5 Male 3 Female

With several key roles for women, this is a bold new take on the classic tale of murder and mayhem A series of random nocturnal assaults in the back streets and alleyways of Victorian London are spreading f...

$12.99

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Adapted by Tom Basden from Dario Fo and Franca Rame

Nick Hern Books

5 Male 1 Female

An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are preparing for a judicial review of the recent 'accidental' death of a suspect in custody Outwi...

$12.99

Caligari

Georgie Bailey

Methuen Drama

3 Male 2 Female

Winner of New Diorama, Underbelly and Methuen Drama's Untapped Award 2022A new Caligari comes to life – accompanied by a five-piece bandEmbracing the long shadows and broad brushstrokes of German expressioni...

$14.99

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott adapted by Anne-Marie Casey

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 6 Female

One of the best loved novels of all time Comic, dramatic, romantic, and tragic, Little Women was inspired by Alcott's experiences growing up with her sisters It is the story of the March family Mother Marme...

$15.99

Ghosts

Adapted by Richard Eyre from Henrik Ibsen

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband She’s about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in his memory, and she reveals ...

$10.99

Small Island

Helen Edmundson from Andrea Levy

Nick Hern Books

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of J...

$15.99

Don Quixote

Mikhail Bulgakov after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Broadway Play Publishing

Mikhail Bulgakov’s brilliantly theatrical and highly personal adaptation of Cervantes’ classic novel is here translated for the first time into English by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa ...

$12.99 , $11.69 (10% off)

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

Isobel McArthur from Jane Austen

Nick Hern Books

0 Male 6 Female

"Love's irrelevant – we're talking about marriage" This unique take on Jane Austen's beloved novel is an adaptation like no other, drawing on over two hundred years of romantic pop history, and featuring fiv...

$12.99 , $11.69 (10% off)

Metamorphoses

Sami Ibrahim & Laura Lomas & Sabrina Mahfouz from Ovid

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 2 Female

From the everyday to the astonishing, and the ordinary to the miraculous, the Roman poet Ovid's stories of epic impossibilities explore the power of transformation, the resilience of humans, and the wonder o...

$17.99

The Long Song

Adapted by Suhayla El-Bushra from the novel by Andrea Levy

Nick Hern Books

"You do not know me yet but I am the heroine of this drama. I am told that here I must give a taste of what is to unfold. I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent days of sla...

$14.99

Frankenstein

Carl Miller from Mary Shelley

Oberon Modern Plays

"The human era is coming to an end" This is a fast-paced and emotionally gripping modern adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic gothic thriller Carl Miller's Frankenstein places the primal struggle between cre...

$14.99

Worship Drama: - An Uplifting Easter Pageant

Rev Scott Elliott from the Gospel of John

Cyberpress

3 Male 4 Female

An adaptation of the Easter story found in the Gospel of John The script captures the power of the resurrection and post-Easter experiences of Jesus in a refreshing three-dimensional way using words right ou...

$7.99

Hadestown

Anaïs Mitchell

Samuel French Inc

This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience Following two intertwining love stories - that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that...

$9.99

The War of the Worlds

Isley Lynn

Methuen Drama

2 Male 2 Female

No-one would have believed in the early years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched ...There is nothing more alluring than a good story When Orson Welles adapted The War of the Worlds, h...

$14.99

Aristophanes' The Birds

Brian Reno & Gabriel Vega Weissman

Dramatists Play Service

Two movie moguls abandon an increasingly vain and shallow society and make their way into the desert to live among the birds Seeking the freedom and tranquility that comes with bird-living, they must make a ...

$12.99

Private Peaceful - A Play For A Small Ensemble

Simon Reade from Michael Morpurgo

Samuel French Ltd

The Peaceful brothers, Tommo and Charlie, have a tough rural childhood facing the death of their father, financial hardship and a cruel landlord Their fierce loyalty to each other pulls them through, until o...

$12.99

The Lovely Bones

Bryony Lavery from Alice Sebold

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 6 Female

Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school There’s one big difference though – Susie is dead Now she can only o...

$12.99

Return to Thrush Green

Ron Perry from Miss Read

Cyberpress

Miss Read (Dora Saint), 1913-2012 had written three novels about the entirely imaginary village of Fairacre when she turned to the real village of Woodgreen in the Cotswolds for the inspiration for a new nov...

$7.99

Miss Read Remembered

Ron Perry

Cyberpress

Miss Read (Dora Saint), 1913-2012 had written three novels about the entirely imaginary village of Fairacre when she turned to the real village of Woodgreen in the Cotswolds for the inspiration for a new nov...

$7.99