The Country of The Blind - Adaptations

Adaptations

• Several radio adaptations of the story have been produced. Escape aired one adaptation Thanksgiving week, 1947. In 1954, 1957 and 1959 adaptations were produced for the CBS radio series Suspense.
• A stage production was written by Frank Higgins; the only production to date has been in The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri in 2006.
• A teleplay written by Frank Gabrielsen was produced in 1962 for the TV series The DuPont Show of the Week. It starred Lee Marvin as Nunez.
• The Russian studio Soyuzmultfilm made a wordless 19-minute animated film adaptation in 1995.
• The composer Mark-Anthony Turnage wrote a chamber opera based on the story, completed in 1997.