Theatrical Adaptation

In a theatrical adaptation, material from another artistic medium, such as a novel or a film is re-written according to the needs and requirements of the theatre and turned into a play or musical.

Appropriation in the arts
By field
Music
  • Appropriation
  • Contrafact
  • Cover version
  • Interpolation
  • List of musical medleys
  • Music mashup
  • Musical plagiarism
  • Musical quotation
  • Parody music
  • Pasticcio
  • Plunderphonics
  • Potpourri
  • DJ mix
  • Quodlibet
  • Remix
  • Sampling
  • Sound collage
  • Trope
  • Variation
Literature / theatre
  • Assemblage
  • Cut-up technique
  • Joke theft
  • Trope
  • Found poetry
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Signifyin(g)
Painting / comics /
photography
  • Collage
  • Swipe
  • Comic strip switcheroo
  • Photographic mosaic
  • Combine painting
By source material
  • Mona Lisa
  • Michelangelo's David
Cinema / TV / video
  • Video mashup
  • Re-cut trailer
  • TV format
  • Found footage
  • Remake
  • Parody film
  • Collage film
General concepts
Intertextual figures
  • Allusion
  • Quotation
  • Calque
  • Plagiarism
  • Translation
  • Pastiche
  • Parody
Adaptation
  • Film
  • Literary
  • Theatre
Other concepts
  • Imitation in art
  • Reprise
  • Détournement
  • Source criticism in the arts
  • Citation
  • Homage
  • Derivative work
  • Bricolage
  • Assemblage (art)
  • Found art
Related artistic
concepts
  • Originality
  • Artistic inspiration
  • Afflatus
  • Genius (literature)
  • Genre
  • Genre studies
  • Parody advertisement
  • In-joke
  • Tribute act
  • Fan fiction
  • Simulacrum
  • Archetypal literary criticism
  • Readymades of Marcel Duchamp
  • Anti-art
  • Pop art
  • Aesthetic interpretation
  • Western canon
Standard blocks
and forms
  • Jazz standard
  • Stock character
  • Plot device
  • Dramatic structure
  • Formula fiction
  • Monomyth
  • Archetype
  • Winged word
Epoch-marking
works
  • L.H.O.O.Q.
  • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
  • Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Theorization
  • Mimesis
  • Dionysian imitatio
  • De Copia Rerum
  • Romantic movement
  • Russian formalism
  • Modernist movement
  • Postmodern movement
  • Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
Related non-artistic
concepts
  • Cultural appropriation
  • Appropriation in sociology
  • Articulation in sociology
  • Trope (linguistics)
  • Academic dishonesty
  • Authorship
  • Genius
  • Intellectual property
  • Recontextualisation

Famous quotes containing the words theatrical and/or adaptation:

    January, month of empty pockets!... Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
    Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

    In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
    Haniel Long (1888–1956)