Theatrical adaptation

In a theatrical adaptation, material from another artistic medium, such as a novel or a film is re-written according to the needs and requirements of the theatre and turned into a play or musical.

Appropriation in the Arts

By field

In music	Appropriation (music) Contrafact Cover version Interpolation (music) List of musical medleys Mashup (music) Musical plagiarism Musical quotation Parody music Pasticcio Plunderphonics Potpourri (music) DJ mix Quodlibet Remix Sampling (music) Sound collage Trope (music) Variation (music)

Literature, theatre	Assemblage (composition) Cut-up technique Hack (comedy) Joke thievery Pastiche Trope (literature) Found poetry Verbatim theatre Signifyin(g)

Painting, Comics, Photography	Collage Swipe (comics) Comic strip switcheroo Photographic mosaic Combine painting

Cinema, TV, videos	Mashup (video) Re-cut trailer TV format Found footage Remake Parody film Collage film

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General concepts

Related
artistic concepts

Epoch-marking
works

L.H.O.O.Q. (1919)
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939)

Theorization

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artistic concepts

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