Performance [Learning Outcomes 2, 3]
Coursework [Learning Outcomes 1, 4]

Berkoff, Steven. Meditations on Metamorphosis (London: Faber, 1995)
Cox, Philip. Reading adaptations : novels and verse narratives on the stage, 1790-1840 (Manchester : Manchester University Press 2000)
Reynolds, Peter (ed.) Novel Images: Literature in Performance (London: Routledge, 1993)
Wilson, Ann. 'Our Country's Good: Theatre, Colony and Nation in Wertenbaker's Adaptation of The Playmaker' Modern Drama, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, March 1991.
Wood, David with Janet Grant. Theatre for children: guide to writing, adapting, directing and acting (London : Faber and Faber 1997)

Library
IT software (word processing, Internet)
Drama Studio and rehearsal spaces
Audio and Video equipment (VCR/DVD players)

Lectures and/or workshops will introduce students to a range of adaptations from different historical periods, or to differing adaptations of a common original text. They will also explore the historical and theatrical background to the period of a particular adaptation, the history of a production of an adaptation, or the work of an individual practitioner or group. Workshops and/or seminars will enable students to discuss ways of adapting a text, including the text selected for production. The rehearsal and production of a selected text (or texts) will enable students to explore the distinction between 'page' and 'stage' either through performance or through a technical or production role (e.g. stage management, lighting design, sound design). The writing of an essay will examine students? critical understanding of the conceptual and imaginative aspects of adaptations as a creative process and theatrical genre.

The module explores the principles, practices and processes of adapting prose fiction for theatrical performance. Students will explore and examine a range of stage adaptations, as well as working on a new adaptation for theatrical performance. In the course of study, students will address areas such as the links between adaptation and theatre history, along with the aesthetic, ideological and dramaturgical decision-making processes and possibilities that adaptation involves. Students will also undertake a production of a staff-led adaptation of a prose text (or texts) in either performing, directing, technical or production roles. Examples of adaptations for critical study may include: Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereusues (adapted by Christopher Hampton), Kafka's Metamorphosis (adapted by Steven Berkoff), Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby (adapted by David Edgar).