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

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