PLAYS/ADAPTATIONS by Holly L. Derr

A collection of short Internet Plays.

Hamlet: Fall of the Sparrow, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set inside a video game.

As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath, an adaptation of selected chapters of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath

American Medea, using the structure and characters of Euripides’ play with text from the letters, trials, and news coverage of Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, Darlie Routier, and Deborah Green

Speak, an adaptation of the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Time of Your Life (original musical adaptation), based on the play by William Saroyan

Anatomy of Isabelle: A Reconstructed Production, a documentary production chronicling unfinished work on a production of New Anatomies (Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play about Isabelle Eberhardt, an early 20^th-Century European traveler who converted to Islam and lived among the Sufi Mystics of North Africa), which was interrupted by the tragedy of 9/11

In the Penal Colony, an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s short story

Monsieur X: Here Called Pierre Rabier, an adaptation of the Marguerite Duras memoir, War

Hundreds of Collisions, an original piece based on the theories of John Cage

Doors, an autobiographical piece based on the theories of Thadeusz Kantor