But not for Morna Murphy Martell, who has made a career of adapting classics for children.

The production is presented by Theaterworks/USA, a company that has amassed a repertory of 70 plays since it began in 1961, adapting literary classics with the aim of motivating young people to read.

Shozo Sato, an internationally renowned Japanese master of Zen arts and visionary theatre director, most known for adapting Western classics to Japanese Kabuki theatre.

Working at the New Generation Theater in Moscow, he has successfully adapted Russian literary classics to the stage by shifting the focus from plot to relationships.

She co-founded a theatre company that performed Shakespeare and adapted classics for the London and Edinburgh fringe.

It morphed into the beginning of "I get along without you very well", though Hoagy Carmichael did not usually adapt classics.

He adapted several classics for television, including "Oliver Twist" and "Anna Karenina."

Shyamaprasad has adapted several classics on celluloid so far.

In 1983 he began directing plays, often adapting classics like King Lear, King Oedipus, and Medea in Los Angeles theaters.