http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/ Poetics in Live Performance Wed, 16 May 2012 18:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/#comment-741 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:02:38 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/#comment-741 [...] Eminem Messes Up Love the Way You Lie Posted on August 9, 2010 by David W. Boles Adaptation is difficult to get right.  You must honor the original intent of the underlying work while enhancing that work in a new [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/#comment-341 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:52:22 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/#comment-341 Gordon –
It’s easier to list the failures than the successes because 99.99% of all adaptations are failures.
Jean Anouilh’s Antigone is a sublime adaption from the Sophocles original.
Orson Welles’s adaptation of William Randolph Hearst’s life into Citizen Kane was amazing.
Alvin Sargent’s adaption of Ordinary People from book to screenplay was tender and monumental.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/#comment-340 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:41:42 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/#comment-340 David,
Could you list a few of what you consider to be successful adaptations and a few bad ones?

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