Literary Adaptations

Jo Clifford's beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels brings it thrillingly to life for the stage.

An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel.

An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. 

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel.

A ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.

A deliciously dark version of the Grimm Tales, from master storyteller Philip Pullman.

A riotously comic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, originally performed by physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete.

Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.

A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

The stage version of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, which is set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.

A stage adaptation of Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers in Australia.

A bruising and beautiful story of love, the limits of human endurance, and the tyranny of memory, adapted for the stage from Hanya Yanagihara's bestselling novel.

 An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

A spine-chilling play based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens.

A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story.

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.