Literary Adaptations

A smouldering adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring novel about a spirited and feisty young woman who finds herself playing mistress in a man's world.

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

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

The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective.

An adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

An imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

A darkly comic stage adaptation of The Trial, relocating Kafka's classic novel to twenty-first-century London.

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.

A faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, terrifically actable and readable.

A faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, with a set of Production Notes designed to make it easily stageable.

One of the greatest horror stories of all time, in a stage adaptation that sticks closely to Mary Shelley's original novel.

Helen Edmundson's celebrated adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.

A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.

A brilliant version of the classic tale, from a playwright acclaimed as 'the master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

Against the backdrop of a windswept northern village, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly.

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