{"id":54,"date":"2014-08-02T21:42:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T21:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/blouke\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2014-08-03T01:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T01:09:03","slug":"e-314j-play-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/blouke\/courses\/e-314j-literature-theatre\/e-314j-play-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"E 314J &#8211; Play Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a far from comprehensive list of plays which have been adapted to stage or screen.\u00a0 The links provided are varied in content and quality (from Wikipedia to IMBD to random reviews); they are intended as a mere stepping stone towards more information about the adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Aeschylus\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0(525 &#8211; 455 BC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Agamemnon<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Berkoff &#8211;\u00a0<em>Agamemnon<\/em>\u00a0(1971)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Mee &#8211;\u00a0<em>Agamemnon 2.0<\/em>\u00a0(1994)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Prometheus Bound<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Percy Bysshe Shelley &#8211;\u00a0<em>Prometheus Unbound<\/em>\u00a0(1820)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"686\">Sophocles\u00a0 &#8211; (497 &#8211; 406 BC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Antigone<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Jean Anouillh &#8211;\u00a0<em>Antigone<\/em>\u00a0(1943)<\/li>\n<li>Athol Fugard &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Island\u00a0<\/em>(1972)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Electra<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Eugene O&#8217;Neill &#8211;\u00a0<em>Mourning Becomes Electra<\/em>\u00a0(1931)<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Paul Sartre &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Flies<\/em>\u00a0(1943)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"656\">Euripides &#8211; (480 &#8211; 406 BC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Bacchae<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Joe Orton &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Erpingham Camp<\/em>\u00a0(1966)<\/li>\n<li>The Performance Group &#8211;\u00a0<em>Dionysus in &#8217;69<\/em>\u00a0(1969)<\/li>\n<li>Wole Soyinka &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Bacchae of Euripedes<\/em>\u00a0(1972)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Mee &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Bacchae 2.1<\/em>\u00a0(1993)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Iphigenia in Aulis<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Racine &#8211;\u00a0<em>Iphig\u00e9nie<\/em>\u00a0(1674)<\/li>\n<li>Neil Labute &#8211;\u00a0<em>Iphigenia in Orem<\/em>\u00a0(1999)<\/li>\n<li>Marina Carr &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ariel<\/em>\u00a0(2002)<\/li>\n<li>Caridad Svich &#8211;\u00a0<em>Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable)<\/em>\u00a0(2005)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Mee &#8211;\u00a0<em>Iphigenia 2.0<\/em>\u00a0(2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Medea<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean Anouilh &#8211;\u00a0<em>Medea<\/em>\u00a0(1963)<\/li>\n<li>John Fisher &#8211;\u00a0<em>Medea the Musical\u00a0<\/em>(1995)<\/li>\n<li>Marina Carr &#8211;\u00a0<em>By the Bog of Cats<\/em>\u00a0(1998)<\/li>\n<li>Neil Labute &#8211;\u00a0<em>Medea Redux<\/em>\u00a0(1999)<\/li>\n<li>Caridad Svich &#8211;\u00a0<em>Wreckage<\/em>\u00a0(2005)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Trojan Women<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Mihalis Kakogiannis &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Trojan Women<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1971)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Mee &#8211;\u00a0<em>Trojan Women: A Love Story<\/em>\u00a0(1996)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Seneca &#8211; (4 BC &#8211; 65 AD)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Phaedra<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Racine &#8211;\u00a0<em>Phaedrus<\/em>\u00a0(1677)<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Kane &#8211;\u00a0<em>Phaedra&#8217;s Love\u00a0<\/em>(1996)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>William Shakespeare &#8211; (1564 &#8211; 1616)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hamlet<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Stoppard &#8211;<em>\u00a0Rosencrantz &amp; Guildenstern are Dead<\/em>\u00a0(1966)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki &#8211;\u00a0<em>Hamlet Goes Business<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1987)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093139\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Branagh &#8211;\u00a0<em>Hamlet<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1996)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116477\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Almereyda &#8211;\u00a0<em>Hamlet<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 2000)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0171359\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Xiaogang Feng &#8211;\u00a0<em>Legend of the Black Scorpion<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 2006)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0465676\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Henry V<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenneth Branagh &#8211;\u00a0<em>Henry V<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1989)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097499\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gus Van Sant &#8211;\u00a0<em>My Own Private Idaho<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1991)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102494\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>King Lear<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Akira Kurosawa &#8211;\u00a0<em>Ran<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1985)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089881\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jean-Luc Godard &#8211;\u00a0<em>King Lear<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1987)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093349\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Edward Bond &#8211;\u00a0<em>Lear<\/em>\u00a0(1971)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lear_%28play%29\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Uli Edel &#8211;\u00a0<em>King of Texas<\/em>\u00a0(TV\/film &#8211; 2002)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0282659\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Young Jean Lee &#8211;\u00a0<em>Lear<\/em>\u00a0(2009)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngjeanlee.org\/lear\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Macbeth<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Akira Kurosawa &#8211;\u00a0<em>Throne of Blood<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1967)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050613\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tom Stoppard &#8211;\u00a0<em>Cahoot&#8217;s Macbeth<\/em>\u00a0(1979)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogg%27s_Hamlet,_Cahoot%27s_Macbeth\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Billy Morrissette &#8211;\u00a0<em>Scotland, PA<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 2001)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotland,_PA\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vishal Bhardwaj &#8211;\u00a0<em>Maqbool<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 2004)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maqbool\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Arnold Wesker &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Merchant<\/em>\u00a0(1983)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnold_Wesker\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Radford &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 2004)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0379889\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Othello<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Paula Vogel &#8211;\u00a0<em>Desdemona: A Play About A Hankerchief<\/em>\u00a0(1993)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.citypaper.com\/eat\/story.asp?id=13137\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oliver Parker &#8211;\u00a0<em>Othello<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1995)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114057\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tim Blake Nelson &#8211;\u00a0<em>O (<\/em>film 2001)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0184791\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Ustinov &#8211;\u00a0<em>Romanoff and Juliet<\/em>\u00a0(1961)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romanoff_and_Juliet_%28play%29\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Sarne &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Punk<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1993)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107898\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lloyd Kaufman &#8211;\u00a0<em>Tromeo and Juliet<\/em>\u00a0(1996)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114733\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joe Calarco &#8211;\u00a0<em>Shakespeare&#8217;s R &amp; 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Shaw &#8211;\u00a0<em>Man and Superman<\/em>\u00a0(1903)<\/li>\n<li>Derek Walcott &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Joker of Seville<\/em>\u00a0(1980)<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Leven &#8211;\u00a0<em>Don Juan DeMarco<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1994)<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Marber &#8211;\u00a0<em>Don Juan in Soho\u00a0<\/em>(2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Henrik Ibsen &#8211; (1828 &#8211; 1906)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Doll&#8217;s House<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Lee Breuer &#8211; <em>Mabou Mines Dollhouse<\/em> (film &#8211; 2008)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maboumines.org\/productions\/mabou-mines-dollhouse\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Gilman &#8211;\u00a0<em>Dollhouse<\/em>\u00a0(2010)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MP2PSZu00JY\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>a modernized version of Ibsen&#8217;s classic, set in the age of maxed out credit cards and bureaucratic oversight committees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hedda Gabler<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Segal &#8211; <em>Hedda Gabler<\/em> (film &#8211; 1963)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057135\/\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>starring Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Meriwether &#8211;\u00a0<em>Heddatron<\/em>\u00a0(2006)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playscripts.com\/play.php3?playid=1302\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A pregnant Michigan housewife is abducted by robots and forced to perform Ibsen&#8217;s Hedda Gabler in a South American rainforest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Whitty &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler<\/em>\u00a0(2008)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117929251?refCatId=33\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Hedda Gabler and other famed fictional figures live on in a type of purgatory, trapped in the confines of character imposed on them by their creators.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>August Strindberg &#8211; (1849 &#8211; 1912)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Miss Julie<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick Marber &#8211;\u00a0<em>After Miss Julie\u00a0<\/em>(1995)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/theatre\/2009\/11\/02\/091102crth_theatre_lahr\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Closer_(play)\">Closer<\/a><\/em>\u00a0sets Strindberg&#8217;s play in an English country estate just after the second world war. \u00a0A wealthy young woman is seduced by her servant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mike Figgis &#8211;\u00a0<em>Miss Julie<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1999)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0189744\/\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anton Chekhov &#8211; (1860 &#8211; 1904)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Seagull<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Tennessee Williams &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Notebook of Trigorin<\/em>\u00a0(1981)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Notebook_of_Trigorin\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>set in the deep South, but retains the Russian names<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Uncle Vanya<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Stuart Burge &#8211; <em>Uncle Vanya<\/em> (film &#8211; 1963)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uncle_Vanya_(1963_film)\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>with Lawrence Olivier and Michael Redgrave<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Andre Gregory &#8211; <em>Vanya on 42nd Street<\/em> (film &#8211; 1994)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanya_on_42nd_Street\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>based on translation by David Mamet, starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Hopkins &#8211; <em>August<\/em> (film &#8211; 1996)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115591\/\">link<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Sets the story in North Wales, stars Anthony Hopkins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>George Bernard Shaw &#8211; (1856 &#8211; 1950)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Pygmalion<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Lerner and Loewe &#8211;\u00a0<em>My Fair Lady<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1964)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Iscove &#8211;\u00a0<em>She&#8217;s All That<\/em>\u00a0(film &#8211; 1999)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a far from comprehensive list of plays which have been adapted to stage or screen.\u00a0 The links provided are varied in content and quality (from Wikipedia to IMBD to random reviews); they are intended as a mere stepping stone towards more information about the adaptation. 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