Adapting Novels for Theatre is Lazy! — Page 2

although adaptation has been happening since the ancient greeks, many of their plays were adpated from myths and stories of the time, it is only in recent years, since the early eighties, that adaptation has become truely popular. It is currently crossing through all the visual arts, and has never been so widely sort after by producers and fans.

so give it up people.

whether its lasy or not, that is the question at hand.

The notion that adaptation is more prevalent since the 80's is PREPOSTEROUS, especially in musical theater, where it's always been the norm, and drama, where adaptation remains extremely uncommon.

Now, in recent years, adaptations, particularly of movies, have been leaning toward *more visible properties* but that's not to say there's MORE adaptation, just that the source material is of a more known quantity than before. In the past, it seems, the goal was to find an obscure work to adapt, now, it seems, the goal is to find a more recognized work. But it's still not a more or less situation, just a different style of adaptation.

so there are no new ideas in the world. we just have to reinvent old ideas. like in The Boy from OZ 'Everything old is new again'

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