This is a collaboration between the Queensland Music Festival, La Boite Theatre Company and Mount Isa City Council as part of the 2007 Queensland Music Festival.
Under the direction of Sean Mee the production premiered in the Mount Isa Civic Centre (July 13, 2007) before transferring to the La Boite Theatre for its season in Brisbane (July 19 - August 4, 2007).
'In A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon takes as a premise that adaptation is ubiquitous as a process, as a creative practice and as a product. Hutcheon's study investigates how adaptation works across all media and all genres including theatre, cover songs, video and computer games, and even theme parks. However, much of the theoretical discourse on adaptation is constrained still by narrow understandings of the transfer of a single source text from one medium to a text in a different medium, usually concentrating on novels adapted to film and television.' (Author's introduction)
'In A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon takes as a premise that adaptation is ubiquitous as a process, as a creative practice and as a product. Hutcheon's study investigates how adaptation works across all media and all genres including theatre, cover songs, video and computer games, and even theme parks. However, much of the theoretical discourse on adaptation is constrained still by narrow understandings of the transfer of a single source text from one medium to a text in a different medium, usually concentrating on novels adapted to film and television.' (Author's introduction)
