The next step is to read the original work more than once. Research on the playwright and the historical context of the play. The next step is to read the original work more than once. Research on the playwright and the historical context of the play.

The fourth step if you are adapting a play familiar to your audience, present them parts of the original work that they know.

The sixth step once you have chosen a play, known it by heart, decided on what you want to achieve, considered your audience, and decided on what changes are you going to make, you may now write your own version of the play.

The first step in adapting a play is selecting a play to invest energy, time, and emotion.

The fifth step is to change an adapted work. Changing this work is inevitable. This is especially true if you are producing a classroom production, wherein you are limited by time and resources.

The third step is by asking yourself the following questions: What exactly do you want to do? Which part of the original play are you focusing on? What is your audience like? How will you approach the play? Will you modify the characters and milieu, and stage a modern or an experimental version?

Don José enters the arena, leaving Carmen at the square. A desperate Don José appears and demands that she must love him and live with him.

When Laius learns that he will be killed by his own son, he orders Jocasta to kill the baby. Hesitant, she orders a servant to kill the child for her. The servant does not kill the infant and instead takes him somewhere in the mountain to perish from exposure.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet , is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

The ghost speaks to Horatio and says that it is the spirit of Hamlet's father. The ghost also reveals that he was killed by Claudius. Then the ghost orders Hamlet to avenge his death.

Carmen sees Don José, and she tries to seduce him by tossing a flower in front of him. But Don José ignores Carmen.

Hamlet devotes himself to fulfilling the wish of his dead mother. He makes himself appear mad to deflect any suspicion.

Oedipus frees the kingdom from the pestilence brought on them by the Sphinx. Because of this, he is rewarded the kingship as well as the hand of Queen Jocasta. Creon,

Moments after, Carmen and a woman Micaela are fighting for Don José’s love. Carmen injures the Micaela's mother and is seized by Officer Zuniga who orders Don José to bring Carmen to prison.

Oedipus sees the blind prophet Tiresias and asks him about the murder. The seer tells Oedipus that he is the murderer. Naturally, the king refuses to believe the seer’s accusation.

Gertrude in the latter’s room while Polonius is hiding behind a tapestry to eavesdrop. Hamlet hears a noise and suspects Claudius is hiding there. He then stabs Polonius through the fabric and kills him.

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles is a play about a prince who is distressed by the sudden death of his fater and by the remarriage of his mother

When Oedipus freed the kingdom from Pestilence, he was awarded the hand of Qyeen Jocasta

The play Carmen by Bizet is about the citizens of Thebes who request that hteir king to deliver them from the plague that afflicts them

In the play Hmalet, Hamlet makes himself appear mad to be able to deflect any suspicion

In Oedipus Rex, Jocasta killed the child of Laius to prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled