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Literary Adaptations

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations (RSC stage version)

By Charles Dickens Adapted by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod

A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters.

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol (Derby Playhouse stage version)

By Charles Dickens Adapted by Karen Louise Hebden

An acclaimed dramatisation of Dickens' well-loved Christmas story - more faithful to the original than any other published version.

Great Expectations

Great Expectations (stage version)

By Charles Dickens Adapted by Jo Clifford

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

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (stage version)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Adapted by Chris Hannan

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

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To Sir, With Love

To Sir, With Love (stage version)

By E. R. Braithwaite Adapted by Ayub Khan Din

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

Thérèse Raquin

Thérèse Raquin (Theatre Royal Bath stage version)

By Émile Zola Adapted by Helen Edmundson

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

The Crocodile

The Crocodile

By Tom Basden Original author Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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.

Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales

Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales (stage version)

Adapted by Philip Wilson Original author Philip Pullman

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

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (stage version)

By John Nicholson and Le Navet Bete

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

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (stage version)

By Louis de Bernières Adapted by Rona Munro

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

Treasure Island

Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

By Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson Original author Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage

The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (stage version)

By Philip Pullman Adapted by Bryony Lavery

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.

The Bone Sparrow

The Bone Sparrow (stage version)

By Zana Fraillon Adapted by S. Shakthidharan

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 Little Life

A Little Life (stage version)

Original author Hanya Yanagihara Adapted by Koen Tachelet, Ivo van Hove and Hanya Yanagihara

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.

15 Heroines

15 Heroines

15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid

By various

Drawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.

The Middlemarch Trilogy

The Middlemarch Trilogy

By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden (musical version)

By Marsha Norman Original author Frances Hodgson Burnett

The complete book and lyrics of Norman's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic.

Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando

Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando

By Anton Chekhov and Virginia Woolf Adapted by Sarah Ruhl

Adaptations of two classic works through the unique lens of playwright Sarah Ruhl.

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