The Importance of Adaptation

When you're doing an adaptation, one of the things that you want is for the audience to come out of the theatre feeling like they have seen the book. Also, you have to look at what is playable on stage that reads really well in a book but does not read on stage. The brilliant theatre writer and theorist Peter Brooke in his book, The Empty Space, talks at great length about adaptation. He talks about changes in form. There are necessary changes in form that have to take place. But keeping the structural integrity or the story integrity or some variation of all of these things is what's going to help your audience to feel that sense of fullness when they leave the theatre after seeing