In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

Andersson also worked on the film adaptation of Mamma Mia !.

A 2002 adaptation of its Resident Evil series faced similar criticism but was also successful in theaters.

In 1995, Charles played The Porter in Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, also on Radio 4.

* The British Hammer Film Productions also produced a fairly faithful adaptation of " Carmilla " titled The Vampire Lovers ( 1970 ) with Ingrid Pitt in the lead role and Madeline Smith as her victim / lover.

Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.

There was also a book adaptation of the Disney theatrical version, titled Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow and written by Vic Crume.

Benedict also made a cameo appearance in the 2010 film adaptation of The A-Team as Pensacola Prisoner Milt.

" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.

" James Berardinelli also gave the film three stars out of four, saying that " the intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by surprise " and that the film " stands above any other filmed Grisham adaptation ".

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

Among lesser works, his additions to the Speculum of Durandus are simply an adaptation from the Consilia of Oldradus de Ponte, as is also his De Sponsalibus et Matrimonio, from Johannes Anguisciola.

There has also been a French musical adaptation by Gérard Presgurvic, Autant en Emporte le Vent.

Bogart and Bacall also worked together on an early color telecast, in 1955, an NBC adaptation of The Petrified Forest for Producers ' Showcase ; only a black and white kinescope of the live telecast has survived.

He has also signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11 / 22 / 63 that centers around an attempt to go back in time and stop the Kennedy Assassination.

Near the end of the decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).

Jahangir was also revolutionary in his adaptation of European styles.

Alexander also appeared with Kelsey Grammer in the 2004 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.

In London he also starred in The Far Pavilions, the West End musical adaptation of M. M. Kaye ’ s novel, at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Additionally his film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy ( also known as the Beast ) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm.

Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

The platypus uses its tail for storage of fat reserves ( an adaptation also found in animals such as the Tasmanian devil and fat-tailed sheep ).

This includes structure, genetics and mutations, metabolism, diversity, fitness, adaptation, climate, water, and soil condition.

Evidence for this includes allusions to historical events and literary sources which postdate 1604, as well as Shakespeare's adaptation of his style to accommodate Jacobean literary tastes and the changing circumstances of the King's Men.

It draws upon human anthropometrics ( body measurements ), human genetics ( molecular anthropology ) and human osteology ( the study of bones ) and includes neuroanthropology, the study of human brain evolution, and of culture as neurological adaptation to environment.

Parker's adaptation includes the dunning solicitor Mr. Gribsby who pursues Jack to Hertfordshire ( present in Wilde's original draft, but cut at the behest of the play's first producer ).

The published libretto includes a note from the librettists briefly discussing their adaptation.

Coelacanths (, adaptation of Modern Latin Cœlacanthus " hollow spine ", from Greek κοῖλ-ος koilos " hollow " + ἄκανθ-α akantha " spine ", referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839 ) are members of an order of fish that includes the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii ( lobe-finned fish and tetrapods ).

In Japan, such examples of music inspired by a work and not intended to soundtrack an radio play or motion picture adaptation of it are known as an " image album " or " image song ," though this definition also includes such things as film score demos inspired by concept art and songs inspired by a TV series which do not feature in it.

For him, adaptation includes exact quotation, imitation and incorporation of his own additions.

The most recent edition includes both the German adaptation and the English original ( ISBN 3-453-87960-0 ).

The 1926 orchestration, rarely heard today, is an adaptation of the original for a " pit " orchestra, which includes a single flute, oboe and bassoon, two horns, two trumpets and one trombone, as well as the same percussion and strings complement as the later 1942 version.

* The musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch includes a song called " The Origin of Love " which appears to be a lyrical adaptation of Aristophanes ' creation myth.

Hwang's work for the stage includes FOB, The Dance and the Railroad, Family Devotions, The House of Sleeping Beauties ( adapted from Yasunari Kawabata's novella House of the Sleeping Beauties ), The Sound of a Voice, As the Crow Flies, Rich Relations, M. Butterfly, Bondage, Face Value, Trying to Find Chinatown, Bang Kok, Golden Child, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt ( co-written with Stephan Muller ), the Humana Festival T ( ext ) Shirt play Merchandising, Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet, the children's play Tibet Through the Red Box ( based upon Peter Sis ' book ), The Great Helmsman, Yellow Face, A Very DNA Reunion, and Chinglish.

His filmography as writer and director includes a 1994 adaptation of Tom Robbins ' 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which features a diverse cast ( Keanu Reeves, Roseanne Barr, Uma Thurman, and k. d.

Like much of Steinman's work, the show includes adaptation ( or, recycling ) of material Steinman had released before.

The most famous is the novella of the " Invisible Mistress ," a comic adaptation of the more serious tale by Alonso de Castillo Solorzano. This tale, which includes a number of comic narrative intrusions, would be reworked by a number of English authors such as Thomas Otway and Eliza Haywood.

The two-volume manga adaptation includes some of the core events of the anime series with few changes, but as a whole the manga veers greatly from its anime inspiration.

For humans, adaptation to varying climatic conditions includes both physiological mechanisms as a byproduct of evolution, and the conscious development of cultural adaptations.

Proponents of the aquatic ape hypothesis believe that part of human evolution includes some aquatic adaptation, which has been said to explain human hairlessness, bipedalism, increased subcutaneous fat, descended larynx, vernix caseosa, a hooded nose and various other physiological and anatomical changes.

Hytner's directorial work for theatre includes The Country Wife, Edward II, Don Carlos, Ghetto, Miss Saigon, Orpheus Descending, a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel ( 1992 ), Southwark Fair and The Alchemist, Measure for Measure ( 1987 ), The Tempest ( 1988 ) and King Lear ( 1990 ), The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar ( 1992 ), The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh ( 1997 ), The Winter's Tale ( 2001 ), Mother Clap's Molly House by Mark Ravenhill ( 2001 ), Henry V ( play ) ( 2003 ) and England People Very Nice ( 2009 ).

His film work includes the screenplay adaptation of A. K. A.

** eigen, a C ++ linear algebra library, includes an adaptation of the minpack algorithm in the " NonLinearOptimization " module.

Frederic Lilien's documentary film, Pale Male ( 2002 ), is an adaptation of Winn's book and includes interview scenes with Winn.

His work focusing on this period includes the films Operation Daybreak ( covering the assassination by the Czechoslovakian Resistance of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich ), The Statement ( a fictionalized account of the post-War life-on-the-run of French collaborator Paul Touvier ), The Pianist ( an adaptation of the autobiography of the Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman covering his survival during the Nazi occupation of Poland ), the play later adapted to film Taking Sides ( focused on the post-War " de-Nazification " investigation of the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler ), the play Collaboration ( about the composer Richard Strauss and his partnership with the Jewish writer Stefan Zweig ), and the play An English Tragedy ( dealing with the British fascist John Amery ).