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Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

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Vlada Chernornirdik

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David Mamet

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LA Theatre Works

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...In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth. But Vanya is enchanted by the professor...

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

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The Royal Shakespeare Company

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..."LOVE IS MERELY A MADNESS" Rosalind is banished from Court. With her best friend Celia by her side, she journeys to a world of exile. But not before catching the eye of love-struck Orlando, who is also forced from the Court into the Forest....

Spill

Leigh Fondakowski

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LA Theatre Works

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...In April of 2010, British Petroleum gave orders to speed up production on its colossal drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon. Despite the objections of many on the rig, safety measures were ignored or overlooked. On April 20th, the Deepwater...

Anna Christie

Eugene O'Neill

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LA Theatre Works

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..."The passion of a coal barge captain’s daughter and a rough-hewn sailor takes a tumultuous turn when her secret past is revealed. Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill won the second of his four Pulitzer Prizes for this heroic classic. An L...

The Grapes of Wrath

Frank Galati

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John Steinbeck

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LA Theatre Works

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..."A heart-wrenching full-cast adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck, starring Jeffrey Donovan and Shirley Knight. Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family...

Layered Space: Adaptation, Immersion and Site

Frances Babbage

Frances Babbage is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published widely on performance, adaptation and rewriting and is the author of Re-Visioning Myth:Modern and Contemporary Drama by Women (2011) and Augusto Boal (2004). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre : Performing Literature

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018

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...This chapter examines the creation, occupation and operation of space in theatrical adaptation, considering how the explicit geographies of prose literatures are remodelled for a physical stage, and the ways in which adaptations address...

Hound of the Baskervilles, The

David Pichette

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R. Hamilton Wright

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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LA Theatre Works

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...Did a supernatural hound cause the death of Sir Charles Baskerville? Or is the famous Baskerville curse simply a cover for more sinister goings on? The redoubtable Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson face danger in an old mansion...

Deborah’s Daughter

Written by

Pam Gems

~playauthor~Written by~ Pam Gems

Drama Publishers, 1995

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

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...Pam Gems' play Deborah’s Daughter explores the fragile relationship between the West and the developing world seen through the prism of a mother/daughter relationship. It was first performed at the Library Theatre, Manchester on 3 March...

The Night Heron

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Jez Butterworth

~playauthor~Written by~ Jez Butterworth

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (9), Female (1), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

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...A darkly comic play about a group of outcasts gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens, The Night Heron was Jez Butterworth's first play to be staged after his debut, Mojo (Royal Court, 1995). Premiered at the Royal Court on 11 April 2002...

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

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Globe on Screen

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...As You Like It runs the glorious gamut of pastoral romance: cross-dressing and love-notes; poetry and brilliant conversation; gentle satire, slapstick and passion Stage director: Thea Sharrock. Screen director: Kriss Russman. Featuring...