Lucius J. Henderson directed the first screen adaptation of "Cymbeline" in 1913. The film was produced by the Thanhouser Company and starred Florence La Badie as Imogen, James Cruze as Posthumus, William Garwood as Iachimo, William Russell as Cymbeline, and Jean Darnell as the Queen. In 1937 the BBC broadcast several scenes of André van Gyseghem's production of the play, which opened 16 November the same year, on television. The scenes that comprised the broadcast were pulled exclusively from Acts I and II of the play, and included the 'trunk scene' from Act II Scene 2. In 1956 the BBC produced a similar television program, this time airing scenes from Michael Benthall's theatrical production, which opened 11 September 1956.
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Cymbeline | Screen adaptations
Yes, in 1913. Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. The play was adapted as "The Injured Princess, or, the Fatal Wager". Yes.
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Sean S. Cunningham
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New York City
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Cunningham's first jobs after graduating from Stanford included managing theater companies such as New York's Lincoln Center as well as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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Ashland, Oregon.
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Angus L. Bowmer, Jerry Turner and Henry Woronicz.
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He was the founder of the theatre mentioned.
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Bellingham, Washington.
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"Love's Labor's Lost" and "Cymbeline".
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Lytton Strachey found it "difficult to resist the conclusion that was getting bored himself.
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Lucius J. Henderson directed the first screen adaptation of "Cymbeline" in 1913. The film was produced by the Thanhouser Company and starred Florence La Badie as Imogen, James Cruze as Posthumus, William Garwood as Iachimo, William Russell as Cymbeline, and Jean Darnell as the Queen. In 1937 the BBC broadcast several scenes of André van Gyseghem's production of the play, which opened 16 November the same year, on television. The scenes that comprised the broadcast were pulled exclusively from Acts I and II of the play, and included the 'trunk scene' from Act II Scene 2. In 1956 the BBC produced a similar television program, this time airing scenes from Michael Benthall's theatrical production, which opened 11 September 1956.
Cymbeline | Screen adaptations
Prior to operatic adaptations only incidental music was composed. The first operatic adaption seems to be composed by Edmond Missa in 1894, under the title "Dinah"; American composer Christopher Berg composed another one, of which scenes were performed in 2009.
Cymbeline | Stage adaptions
Some details of this alteration survived in productions at least until the middle of the century. William Hawkins revised the play again in 1759. His was among the last of the heavy revisions designed to bring the play in line with classical unities. He cut the Queen, reduced the action to two places (the court and a forest in Wales). The dirge "With fairest flowers..." was set to music by Thomas Arne. Nearer the end of the century, Henry Brooke wrote an adaptation which was apparently never staged. His version eliminates the brothers altogether as part of a notable enhancement of Posthumus' role in the play.
Cymbeline | Adaptations
Like the 1937 program, the 1956 broadcast ran for roughly half an hour and presented several scenes from "Cymbeline," including the trunk scene. In 1968 Jerzy Jarocki directed an adaptation of the play for Polish television, starring Wiktor Sadecki as Cymbeline and Ewa Lassek as Imogen.
Cymbeline | Screen adaptations
The play was adapted by Thomas d'Urfey as "The Injured Princess, or, the Fatal Wager"; this version was produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, presumably by the united King's Company and Duke's Company, in 1682. The play changes some names and details, and adds a subplot, typical of the Restoration, in which a virtuous waiting-woman escapes the traps laid by Cloten. D'Urfey also changes Pisanio's character so that he at once believes in Imogen's (Eugenia, in D'Urfey's play) guilt. For his part, D'Urfey's Posthumus is ready to accept that his wife might have been untrue, as she is young and beautiful.
Cymbeline | Adaptations
A film version of "Cymbeline" was released in 2014, starring Milla Jovovich, Ethan Hawke, Penn Badgely, John Leguizamo and Ed Harris. "The Tempest" has been adapted most often. A silent film version was made in 1908. Later adaptations include, "Yellow Sky" (1948) – set in the wild west, with Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter; "Forbidden Planet" (1956) – a science fiction classic set in outer space; Derek Jarman's 1979 version relocated to a crumbling mansion off the Scottish coast; "Tempest" (1982) – set on a Greek isle, with John Cassavetes, Molly Ringwald, Gena Rowlands and Susan Sarandon; "Prospero's Books" (1991) starring John Gielgud – which is not so much an adaptation as a reading of the play, combining film, dance, opera, and animation; and a 2010 version with Prospero recast as Prospera, played by Helen Mirren.
Shakespeare's late romances | Film adaptations
In other cases, such as "Camille" (1936), "Cabaret" (1972), and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), the original stage dialogue is completely discarded and an entirely new script is written for the film version, even if the basic plot of the play is still followed. This has also happened with musical films such as the 1936 and 1954 film versions of "Rose-Marie", the 1943 and 1953 versions of "The Desert Song", and the 1954 version of "The Student Prince". In the case of the 1936 "Rose-Marie", the plot of the film had almost nothing to do with the stage version, other than using a very few of the stage version's songs, having a Canadian setting, and having Mounties as characters.
Stage-to-film adaptation | Problems with stage-to-film adaptations
In 1962 the play was adapted for the screen by Arthur Dreifuss and starred Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms and Walter Macken. Although the film received some favourable reviews, it is not regarded as a faithful adaptation of the play. Its budget was £147,322.
The Quare Fellow | Adaptation
This version no longer exists.
Des Teufels General (play) | Screen adaptations
Jenkinson adapted a number of works for the stage, including the version of "The Imaginary Invalid" by Molière which was performed by Peter Finch and the Mercury Mobile Players in 1948. This production was seen by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and led to Olivier inviting Finch to Australia.
Creswick Jenkinson | Adaptations
Justin Fleming has translated and adapted The Misanthrope in varied rhyme scheme with Alceste as a woman and Celimene as a young man for Bell Shakespeare Company and Griffin Theatre Company co-production in the Sydney Opera House Playhouse Theatre 2018.
The Misanthrope | Adaptations
Chwalfa has been adapted for the stage and screen. In 2016, it was produced by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru. In the early 1960s, the BBC produced a television adaption of the novel.
Chwalfa | Adaptions
The play was adapted for the cinema in 1932, under the same title. Walls directed, and he, Lynn, Hare, Brough, Shotter and Varden reprised their stage roles.
A Night Like This (play) | Adaptations
The Corrugated Iron Youth Arts Theatre in Darwin, Australia, produced Caroline Heske's stage play adaptation of "Obernewtyn", directed by Jeremy Rice, at the Brown's Mart Theatre from 3 to 7 November 2004. Rice stated that the original novel has "that imaginative streak that suits theatre".
Obernewtyn (novel) | Adaptations
These many intertwined players will travel through desperate straits before all is resolved.
Cymbeline (film) | Synopsis
Thomas Higgie adapted it into a three-act play in 1854. Charles Selby and Charles Melville did the same in 1875. The latter was produced at the English Opera House. In 1915 Thomas Bentley directed "Barnaby Rudge", "the biggest-budget British film of its day", but it is now lost. The BBC made a 13 episode TV series in 1960.
Barnaby Rudge | Adaptations
Fittingly for a novella based on a famous playwright, the book was adapted for the stage by Kenny Miller in 2007. Miller also transformed and directed Welsh's first novel, "The Cutting Room", into a stage production. The play was produced by Glasgay! and Tron Theatre in Glasgow.
Tamburlaine Must Die | Play adaptation
On review aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 31%, based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. On Metacritic, which uses a weighted score, the film has a rating of 54 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Cymbeline (film) | Reception
"The Broken Melody" was turned into an Australian film in 1938, directed by Ken G. Hall, who had made "On Our Selection" and "The Squatter's Daughter". In 1935 it was announced that "Broken Wings" and "Flames of Convention" were to be filmed in England but this did not appear to happen. In 1937 "The Defender" was going to be adapted by National Studios but this did not happen either.
F. J. Thwaites | Adaptations
Paradoxically Shaw offered his own alternative ending as challenge to producers to restore Shakespeare's original, which had been crudely cut in many productions. The act is written in blank verse, but C.B. Young notes that there is "a violent change of tone from the fairy-tale and romantic atmosphere of the original acts to the Shavian wit with a touch of cynicism, of the end." Bernard F. Dukore says that "Shaw's refinishing of "Cymbeline"'s last act reveals such features of Shavian comedy as his typical treatment of exposition; his focus, not on the resolution of a situation, but on the response of the characters to that resolution; and broad comedy with a realistic base."
Cymbeline Refinished | Critical views
The story has been adapted for the screen at least four times.
Harrison Bergeron | Adaptations
In 1844 the novel was adapted into a stage play at the Queen's Theatre, featuring Thomas Manders in drag as Sarah Gamp. A short film adaptation of the novel was released in 1912. The novel was adapted into a television miniseries of the same title in 1994, starring Paul Scofield and Pete Postlethwaite.
Martin Chuzzlewit | Adaptations
It has been adapted many times to the stage, film, and television.
Louisa May Alcott | Introduction
The novel has been adapted to a movie of the same name in 1942 directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine. It won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White.
This Above All | Adaptations
"Cymbeline" was one of Shakespeare's more popular plays during the eighteenth century, though critics including Samuel Johnson took issue with its complex plot: William Hazlitt and John Keats, however, numbered it among their favourite plays. By the early twentieth century, the play had lost favour. Lytton Strachey found it "difficult to resist the conclusion that [Shakespeare] was getting bored himself. Bored with people, bored with real life, bored with drama, bored, in fact, with everything except poetry and poetical dreams." Harley Granville-Barker had similar views, saying that the play shows that Shakespeare was becoming a "wearied artist".
Cymbeline | Criticism and interpretation
In 1954, the play was adapted for the screen by John Hunter, under the direction of Anthony Asquith and producer Teddy Baird. The film was released into theatres by Kingsley-International Pictures in 1955 and starred David Niven and Margaret Leighton. In 1957, the play was adapted for radio and broadcast as part of the BBC's long-running Saturday Night Theatre series, with Howard Marion-Crawford as Major Carrington.
Carrington V.C. (play) | Adaptations
Jeunet distanced himself from the musical, saying he only sold the rights to raise funds for children's charity "".
Amélie | Musical adaptation
There have been a few stage adaptations (mostly loosely so and mostly in the 19th century) and one adaptation in each of radio and television. There have been no films, although one of the stage adaptations has been filmed a number of times.
Mary Barton | Adaptations
The adapted screenplay was written by Alan Sharp, with clearance from the Dunsany Literary Estate. Trevor Johnston has written, "If you read the original story before seeing the film ..., then see the film, what’s striking is that Sharp has not so much effected an adaptation as a reinvention."
Dean Spanley | Writing
"NOTE: "ShakespeaRe-Told", "The Animated Shakespeare" and "BBC Television Shakespeare" series have been covered above, under the respective play performed in each episode. Three further episodes were filmed but never edited or screened. They were to be called "Using the Prose", "Using the Sonnets" and "Contemporary Shakespeare". Their text can be read in the book "Playing Shakespeare" by John Barton.
List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations | Television series
The book has been adapted for stage with music by David Wood. The original production featured the actors Devon Black, Alan Atkins and Abbey Norman.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Theatre adaptation
The British Universities Film & Video Council database notes that the adaption "transforms the play into a modern political conspiracy thriller with modern dialogue and many strong allusions to political events in the early 1970s." The adaption changes Shakespeare's text into 20th century English. It was set in what was then a modern 20th century context, although it was clearly shifted slightly into the then near future. There is a reference in the first episode to the imminent return of Halley's Comet, which in 1973 was not due to return for another 13 years, and how it was viewed by some as being a possible portent of the death of kings.
Heil Caesar | Introduction
The film was adapted for the stage by the British company Improbable, with Jim Broadbent playing Edward Lionheart and Rachael Stirling, Diana Rigg's daughter, playing the role her mother essayed, Lionheart's daughter. The play differs from the film in that the critics are from British newspapers (examples including "The Guardian" and "The Times") and is entirely set in an abandoned theatre. The play remains set in the 1970s, rather than being updated to contemporary times. Most of the secondary characters were excised including police and the number of deaths reduced. The killings based on "Othello" and "Cymbeline" are omitted as they would have to take place outside the theatre and rely on secondary characters, such as the critics' wives.
Theatre of Blood | Stage adaptation
It was adapted for television in 1978, starring Olivier.
Daphne Laureola | Adaptations
The play was adapted for the cinema in 1925 under the same title.
The Circle (play) | Adaptations
This last part, as I read Murray, is largely imposed and disruptive, trying to pin a romantic political agenda to the work that's hardly there. It makes the film too literal, too current, when it wants to lodge itself in the more mysterious part of the brain. The film still has a power – Haywood's performance is magnificent – but it never achieves a strong inner reality. It falls short of its own tall ambitions.
Les Murray (poet) | Adaptations
In 1922 the novel was adapted into a film "Diana of the Crossways" directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton and Henry Victor.
Diana of the Crossways | Adaptation
The adaptation developed St Clair's attributed ability at repartee by showing him quoting from the classics, including Shakespeare.
The Man with the Twisted Lip | Film and television
After altering the ending, Shaw changed his mind about the bulk of the play, but remained convinced that the last act was a disaster, writing in 1946 that it was "one of the finest of Shakespeare's later plays" but "goes to pieces in the final act".
Cymbeline Refinished | Creation
It was expected that the operator, after rehearsal, would be able to project the film so that picture and voice would jibe." The earliest surviving British filmic adaptation is Edwin J. Collins' 1923 version, adapted by Eliot Stannard, and starring Dacia Deane and Lauderdale Maitland. One of a series of forty-minute adaptations of classic texts released under the "Gems of Literature" banner, only the second half of the film survives, and the final scene is incomplete as a result of print damage. This version very much adopts Petruchio's perspective, and one of the intertitles reads "by noon the next day, though famished and weary for want of food and rest, the Shrew deep in her heart admired the man whose temper is greater than her own."
The Taming of the Shrew on screen | Silent era
There are several film adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play "Cyrano de Bergerac":
List of film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac | Introduction
"From Here to Eternity" was adapted as a film of the same name in 1953; as a television miniseries of the same name in 1979; as a TV series of the same name in 1980. A musical adaption of the book opened in London in 2013. "Some Came Running" was adapted as a 1958 film of the same name. "The Thin Red Line" was adapted as 1964 and 1998 films of the same name.
James Jones (author) | Adaptations
Other film versions (which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen) include:
The Taming of the Shrew on screen | Adaptations
The play was turned into a film of the same name on two occasions. The first, produced in America in 1930, starred Will Rogers and Irene Rich, and the second, produced in Britain in 1939, featured Alfred Drayton and George Sanders.
So This Is London (play) | Adaptations
The plot of Cymbeline originally written and recorded by William Shakespeare is a play organized by the South Sudan Theatre Company.
Cymbeline (South Sudan Theatre Company) | Introduction
Theatre: Television: Film:
Dombey and Son | Adaptations
"Night of the Big Heat" was adapted twice. The first, a 1960 TV version set on Salisbury Plain, was directed by Cyril Coke and adapted from the book by Giles Cooper. The second was a 94-minute feature film set on a remote island off the English coast; made by Planet Films, it was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Patrick Allen, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
John Lymington | Television / film adaptations
The play was adapted to film in 1915 and 1920.
Young Mrs. Winthrop (play) | Adaptations
There have been several notable cases of massive inventive adaptation, including the Roland Joffe adaptation of "The Scarlet Letter" with explicit sex between Hester Prynn and the minister and Native American obscene puns into a major character and the film's villain. The Charlie Kaufman and "Donald Kaufman" penned "Adaptation", credited as an adaptation of the novel "The Orchid Thief", was an intentional satire and commentary on the process of film adaptation itself. All of those are cases of Nathaniel Hawthorne's point. The creators of the "Gulliver's Travels" miniseries interpolated a sanity trial to reflect the ongoing scholarly debate over whether or not Gulliver himself is sane at the conclusion of Book IV.
Film adaptation | Interpretation as adaptation
This was adapted and directed by Scottish actor and director, Tony Cownie. It premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in February 2018.
The Beaux' Stratagem | Adaptations
The first two thirds are great, well built, with a coherence in playwriting, etc. And the final third is a little shitty. Or he ran out of time, got tired, or started getting lazy." The main differences between the original novel and its film version are::
L'Orphelin de Perdide | Movie Adaptation
In 1947 the novel was adapted into a French film, "The Royalists", directed by Henri Calef, and starring Paul Amiot and Roland Armontel. Alain Vanzo adapted it into an opera, premiered in Avignon in 1982.
Les Chouans | Adaptations
Bernard Herrmann composed and conducted the score, which later formed the basis of his score for the 1943 film "Jane Eyre". "The Screen Guild Theater" presented half-hour adaptions with Joan Fontaine, her husband at the time Brian Aherne, and Agnes Moorehead (31 May 1943), and with Loretta Young, John Lund and Agnes Moorehead (18 November 1948). Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten performed a half-hour adaptation 1 October 1946 on "The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players". "The Lux Radio Theatre" presented hour-long adaptations with Ronald Colman, Ida Lupino and Judith Anderson (3 February 1941), and with Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Betty Blythe (6 November 1950).
Rebecca (novel) | Radio
The novel was made into a film "Maurice" (1987), directed by James Ivory and starring James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive, and Rupert Graves as Alec. A stage adaptation, written by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham, was produced by SNAP Theatre Company in 1998 and toured the UK, culminating with a brief run at London's Bloomsbury Theatre. Shameless Theatre Company staged another production in 2010 at the Above the Stag Theatre in London. Above the Stag staged it again in September/October 2018, as part of the theatre's first season in their new premises. It was directed by James Wilby.
Maurice (novel) | Adaptations
He has adapted different works for the theatre, from "Don Quixote" to "Trainspotting".
Wajdi Mouawad | Adaptations
A film was broadcast on BBC Two in 1987, as part of the Screen Two series.
Quartermaine's Terms | TV adaptation
There have been a number of film adaptations including:
Peer Gynt | Films
Shakespeare's most famous 1590s adaptation is a dramatization of Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem "The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet", itself a translation of a French translation of Da Porto's novella.
Pyramus and Thisbe | Adaptations
In 1928 it was adapted by the writer John Van Druten into a play of the same title which ran for 46 performances at the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End. The novel was made into a 1982 film starring Alan Bates as Baldry and co-starring Julie Christie, Ian Holm, Glenda Jackson, and Ann-Margret.
The Return of the Soldier | Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
Listed in chronological order of release or broadcast.
Adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray | Film and television
It has since been restored to just over four hours and is considered one of the greatest films ever made.
Literary adaptation | Film
The play was also filmed in at least six more remote forms:
The Admirable Crichton | Indirect adaptations
Films Stage Sound recordings
Saint Joan (play) | Adaptations
In 1936 the play was adapted into a film "Laburnum Grove" directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn and Victoria Hopper. It was made by Associated Talking Pictures at Ealing Studios.
Laburnum Grove (play) | Adaptation
The play has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations and a musical adaptation. Films include: Radio adaptations include:
Lady Windermere's Fan | Adaptations
An adaptation called "The Cobler; or A Wife of Ten Thousand" with text and music by Charles Dibdin was first produced in London at Drury Lane on 9 December 1774.
Blaise le savetier | Adaptations
The screenplay was adapted for the stage by Joel Horwood and Tom Scutt, being first shown in London's Donmar Warehouse in 2019.
Berberian Sound Studio | Stage adaptation
A version abridged by Merlin Holland was performed by Corin Redgrave in 2000 at the Royal National Theatre in London. It was revived in 2008. An abridged version was set for speaking pianist by composer Frederic Rzewski. Extracts were set to music for chorus and orchestra in 2012 by the British composer Matthew King. They were later developed into an immersive nightclub drag musical at Harvard in 2015 and later in New York City in 2019, "OSCAR at The Crown and the love that dare not speak its name".
De Profundis (letter) | Dramatic adaptations
The novel was the adaptation of the 1969 film "The Pleasure Pit", directed by André Cayatte and starring Renaud Verley and Jane Birkin. The film had 1,635,664 admissions in French cinemas.
Les Chemins de Katmandou | Adaptation
Cymbeline Refinished (1937) is a play-fragment by George Bernard Shaw in which he writes a new final act to Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline". The drama follows from Shaw's longstanding need to reimagine Shakespeare's work, epitomised by his play "Caesar and Cleopatra" and his late squib "Shakes versus Shav".
Cymbeline Refinished | Introduction
The L.A. Theatre Works released an audio adaptation in 2004 () with Roger Rees as Lord Summerhays, Eric Stoltz as Johnny Tarleton, Victoria Tennant as Mrs. Tarleton, W. Morgan Sheppard as Mr. Tarleton, Joy Gregory as Hypatia, Tom Beyer as Bentley Summerhays, Tegan West as Joey Percival, Douglas Weston as Gunner/Julius Baker and Serena Scott Thomas as Lina Szczepanowska.
Misalliance | Audio adaptations
Some of her novels and stories were adapted to the movie screen. Up to seven of these were released between 1918 and 1932 including Head Over Heels and The Amateur Wife.
Nalbro Bartley | Screen adaptations
The play has been turned into films on three occasions:
The Case of Lady Camber (play) | Film Adaptations
The novel was adapted for the stage and directed by Ruth Pe Palileo, and the stage-play premiered on August 16, 2014 at the ExCel Exhibition Center in London, England. The original cast featured Johnny Miles as Brendan Doyle, Ariana Helaine as Jacky Snapp, Timothy Cummings as J. Cochrane Darrow and Dr. Romany, Jake Taylor as Amenophis Fikee, Horrabin the Clown, and Lord Byron, and Geo Nikols as Steerforth Benner.
The Anubis Gates | Stage adaptation
The novel was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 10 15-minute episodes in 2010.
An Unsuitable Attachment | Adaptation
In 1998 the film was novelized by the British writer Wendy Holden. The film was adapted into a 2000 Broadway musical of the same name; the characters and setting were Americanized. The musical ran in the West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 2002. It was also adapted into a stage play by the original screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, which opened at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield on 2 February 2013, directed by Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans, before embarking on a national tour. It opened in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre on 25 February 2014.
The Full Monty | Adaptations
Soon after the novel's publication, Hardy was approached by Jack Grein and Charles Jarvis for permission to adapt it for performance in 1889. But although various drafts were written, the project came to nothing. It was not until 1913 that A.H. Evans' play in 3 acts was produced by the Dorchester Debating and Dramatic Society; the performance was also taken to London that year and to Weymouth in 1914. In the following century, two dramatic adaptations of the novel went on tour in the West Country. In 2013 the New Hardy Players put on Emily Fearn's version, and in 2016 the Hammerpuzzle Theatre Company put on Tamsin Kennard's version.
The Woodlanders | Adaptations
The title was used for a theatrical journey through Thomas' prose writings which was staged by Clwyd Theatr Cymru in April 2014.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog | Adaptations
The adaptation omitted the character of Satterthwaite and changes a number of details but is generally faithful to the plot of the novel.
Three Act Tragedy | Television
Jonathan Miller adapted his 1968 version as part of the BBC arts strand "Omnibus", which consisted mainly of arts documentaries so the dramatic adaptation was an unusual move; David Kerekes notes that this probably explains Miller's documentary-like introduction to the film. Ian McDowell notes that the adaptation itself changes a number of aspects of James' story, turning the academic, described as "young, neat and precise of speech" into a bumbling, awkward, middle-aged eccentric. This adaptation was filmed on the Norfolk coast, near Waxham.
Whistle and I'll Come to You | 1968 adaptation
"Adaptation" was praised for Jonze's direction, Charlie Kaufman's screenplay, its humor, and the performances of Cage, Cooper and Streep. It received awards at the 75th Academy Awards, 60th Golden Globe Awards, and 56th British Academy Film Awards, with Cooper winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Kaufman winning the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. A British Film Institute poll ranked it one of the thirty best films of the 2000s.
Adaptation (film) | Introduction
His adaptation credits also include Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", "The Melancholy Hussar" by Thomas Hardy, "The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd" by D. H. Lawrence, "The Birds Fall Down" by Rebecca West and "The Girls of Slender Means" by Muriel Spark, and "The Devil's Crown".
Ken Taylor (scriptwriter) | Life
The show told the story of the film, with much of the film's main characters appearing as live characters in the show. The film's musical numbers were acted out with scenes from the film displayed with projections onto the show's "water curtains".
Quest for Camelot | Stage adaptation
In 1943 the play was turned into a film, directed by Lawrence Huntington at Welwyn Studios with both Hare and Drayton reprising their roles. It was noted as being one of the more successful British films at the box office that year.
Women Aren't Angels (play) | Film adaptation
On January 24, 2015, a staged reading adaptation of the book with movement, plus simple costumes and sets was performed at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, Vermont for Vermont Pride Theater. It was adapted by Gene Hinerich and directed by Cher Laston. It starred Alex Verret (credited as Kieran Verret) as Marcus, and Gabriella Atkinson as Frannie.
M or F? | Stage adaptation
The Late Christopher Bean is a comedy drama adapted from "Prenez garde à la peinture" by René Fauchois. It exists in two versions: an American adaptation by Sidney Howard (1932) and an English version by Emlyn Williams (1933). Williams's is an anglicisation of Howard's, with the action moved from near Boston to the English countryside. The events are unchanged, although two characters are renamed. The family maid, Abby in Howard's version, becomes Gwenny, a Welsh woman of mature years, and the "ingénue"'s young admirer Warren Creamer becomes the Scottish Bruce McRae in Williams's adaptation. Howard's version was first published in 1932 under the title "Muse of All Work".
The Late Christopher Bean | Introduction
Playwright Richard Bean adapted Mamet's script for a production at the Almeida Theatre, London, in September 2010. To meet the confines of the medium the stage version is set in just two locations, and the final resolution between Mike and Margaret is softened. Critical reaction to Bean's version was mixed: Michael Billington found only a "pointless exercise", but Charles Spencer thought that the stage version delivered "far better value than the original picture".
House of Games | Stage adaptation
Although French farces, including those of Georges Feydeau, had been adapted for the London stage since Victorian times, his name was not widely familiar to London theatregoers until the 1950s. In 1956 Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife Madeleine Renaud had brought their production of "Occupe-toi d'Amélie!" ("Take Care of Amélie") to London, where it was enthusiastically received. No English version of the text had been published, and Barrault and Renaud suggested to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh that they ask Coward to adapt the play. With the help of his assistant, Cole Lesley, Coward worked on the script in the summer of 1958.
Look After Lulu! | Background
In 1951 the play served as a loose basis for a film adaptation made at Walton Studios. Neither of the original stars appeared in the film version, which was rewritten to suit different actors.
Madame Louise (play) | Film adaptation
In 1922 the novel was turned into a British silent film of the same title directed by Sinclair Hill.
The Truants (novel) | Film Adaptation
A stage adaptation by Lee Hall premiered in the Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre in London in November 2017. The play was directed by Ivo Van Hove featuring Bryan Cranston making his UK stage debut as Howard Beale, and Michelle Dockery as Diana. It opened on Broadway on December 6, 2018, with Cranston reprising his role as Beale, and with Tatiana Maslany as Diana and Tony Goldwyn as Max Schumacher.
Network (1976 film) | Stage adaptation
In 1930 the play was adapted for the film "Birds of Prey" directed by Basil Dean. In 1949 it was adapted by BBC television as a ninety-minute drama called "The Perfect Alibi" and was first broadcast on 6 August 1949. The cast included Edward Lexy as Major Fothergill, Daisy Burrell as Mrs Fulverton-Fane, Ian Fleming as Arthur Ludgrove, and Arthur Young as Edward Carter.
The Fourth Wall (Milne play) | Adaptations
Bharadwaj has since licensed the rights for stage performances of her original script. Bharadwaj stated: I undertook to adapt my screenplay to stage when I started to receive offers from stage groups all over the world, who had seen my film and were moved by it, and who wanted to perform it on stage. The play version has now been performed almost everywhere in the world. On stage, the words have a lyrical force and sway. The film experience is, however, vastly different: hugely emotional and personal, with her pain and his madness intimately felt; a dream world where imagination is king.
Closet Land | Stage adaptations
In 1967, the film was adapted into a stage play, but only ran for a short period.
David and Lisa | Play adaptation
It had also been said that Hugh Laurie and Kiefer Sutherland will be Blake and Mortimer. However, no news has come of this since then.
The Yellow &quot;M&quot; | Adaptation attempts
"The Cloister and the Hearth" (UK, 1913) was a silent film, directed by Cecil M. Hepworth.
The Cloister and the Hearth | Screen adaptation
The first silent screen adaptation was in 1916 and the latest in 2000. Better-known versions include a 1929 sound film starring Ruth Chatterton and directed by Lionel Barrymore plus the 1966 film starring Lana Turner. In 2006, a musical based on the original play was produced in Chicago. Bisson also adapted the 1910 best-selling Florence Barclay novel, "The Rosary" as a three-act play for the Paris stage. Widely acclaimed in the United States, Alexandre Bisson was invited to write about the theatre by "The Saturday Evening Post" and his articles "The Dilemmas of the Theater" and "How the World Contributes to the American Stage" were published in 1912.
Alexandre Bisson | Introduction
Irene and Louis Kamp adapted the novel for the screenplay of a 1962 movie of the same title starring William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine, and the young Pamela Franklin as Tina (Patricia of the novel). Directed by cinematographer Jack Cardiff and filmed on location in East Africa, it was made for a budget of $4,345,000 - a costly film for its time. Film critic Leonard Maltin found the beautiful scenery to be "far better than the melodrama." It earned rentals in North America of $1.3 million.
The Lion (Kessel novel) | Film adaption
In November 1936, RKO Pictures bought the film rights to "Stage Door" for "something over $125,000," intending the property as a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, Burgess Meredith, and Ginger Rogers. Hepburn and Rogers did indeed appear in the 1937 film adaptation, which was heavily improvised and bore only a superficial resemblance to the original play, prompting Kaufman to quip, "They should have called it "Screen Door"." On April 6, 1955, a one-hour television adaptation aired on CBS as part of "The Best of Broadway" anthology series. Adapted by Gore Vidal and directed by Sidney Lumet, the live broadcast featured Diana Lynn as Terry Randall and Elsa Lanchester as the landlady.
Stage Door (play) | Adaptations
The play was adapted into a 1956 film. In 1956 Bob Thomas of the "Associated Press" wrote that "many said [the play] could never be made into a movie."
Tea and Sympathy (play) | Adaptations