theatrical adaptations
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Theatrical adaptations are works transformed for the stage—novels, films, or other source material reimagined as live performances.
The term covers everything from Broadway musicals based on movies to plays drawn from classic literature: The theatrical adaptation of Les Misérables became one of the longest-running shows in history.
Adaptation implies both faithfulness to the original and necessary changes for the new medium.
- novelsExtended prose fiction
- scriptwritingComposing film or TV text
- playsStaged dramatic works
- poemsLiterary works in verse
- stage designTheatrical set construction
dramatization · stage play · live performance · cross-cultural exchange · reinterpretation · direction · director's vision · blocking · abridgment · intertextuality · films · modernization · costume design · costume drama · artistic innovation · lighting design · sound effects · character study
- Shakespeare studiesKing Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- Goethe DramaFaust, Stella, Pandora, Brother and Sister, Iphigenia
- Greek comedyAristophanes, Old Comedy, The Birds, Greek drama, comedic plays
theatrical adaptationsoriginal works
Uncopied creative productions
original scripts · source material · debut works · world premieres · source texts
theatrical adaptationssource texts
Original materials consulted
radio plays · television series · prose fiction · written works
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