Her initial intelligence tests registered above normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.

In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge Langen in a West German television adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage ( Mord im Pfarrhaus ).

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.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

Although filmed in color, instead of black and white as the earlier 1930 film adaptation was, the wasted and desolated landscapes and environment are very effectively conveyed.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

The use of two pistols simultaneously was even used in the movie adaptation of the Spider character ( a contemporary of the Shadow ), the Spider's Web.

Lerner and Loewe's first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conners's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company.

This adaptation was produced at the Princess Theatre, 3 March 1884.

A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.

The movie adaptation was released in 1996 starring Pamela Anderson as Barb Wire.

In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.

In 2003, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the BCP was published called the Book of Divine Worship.

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

This name was used in Turkish side by side with Kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original Constantinople, during the period of Ottoman rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century.

As a result, an exaptive explanation of consciousness has gained favor with some theorists that posit consciousness did not evolve as an adaptation but was an exaptation arising as a consequence of other developments such as increases in brain size or cortical rearrangement.

This was a result of the adaptation to the Bologna process that started in 2004 at Chalmers ( as the first technical university in Sweden ).

In 2011, it was announced rights for a miniseries adaptation passed to HBO and BBC2.

Carnivory was a natural transition from insectivory for medium and large tetrapods, requiring minimal adaptation ( in contrast, a complex set of adaptations was necessary for feeding on highly fibrous plant materials ).

* A more-or-less faithful adaptation starring Christopher Lee was produced in Italy in 1964 under the title La cripta e l ' incubo ( Crypt of the Vampire in English ).

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

A musical stage adaptation of the Book of Esther, written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson, is currently in development with Dallas Summer Musicals.

* On November 20, 1981, the CBC Radio series Nightfall aired an adaptation of Carmilla written by Graham Pomeroy and John Douglas.

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

Backwoods Barbie produced four additional singles, including the title track, which was written as part of her score for 9 to 5: The Musical, an adaptation of her feature film Nine to Five.

He had asked Raimi if he would direct a theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King ( written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym ) novel Thinner.

A film adaptation written and directed by François Truffaut, starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie was released in 1966.

A French adaptation for television, translated and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, appeared in 1978.

A significant concern of Jewish authorities was to ensure compliance with the Torah's commandments, the enactments of the Mosaic Law ; yet, as these laws had been written in circumstances of the past, they seemed to call for adaptation or explication if they were to fit the circumstances of contemporary life.

A stage adaptation of the book, written by Edward Einhorn, ran from November to December 2010 at the 3LD theater in New York.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O ' Brien.

Making good on his Schizopolis-inspired " artistic wake-up call ", his commercial slump ended in 1998 with Out of Sight, a stylized adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, written by Scott Frank and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.

The libretto was written for the adaptation by the children's novelist John Emlyn Edwards.

In this adaptation, written by Vincent Tilsey and directed by Reginald Collin, the title character is portrayed as insane rather than evil.

This shōjo oriented adaptation was written by Yuzuru Yashiro and serialized in Asuka Fantasy DX from April 8, 1996 through January 18, 1997.

An adaptation of the song, named " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth ", was written by Charles Randolph Grean, Fred Hertz and Leonard Nimoy ( Nimoy recites the text as Spock explaining how the star-people wish upon an earth and so forth ).

Musical versions include the 1966 TV musical with songs by Moose Charlap, and Judi Rolin in the role of Alice, a Christmas 2007 multimedia stage adaptation at The Tobacco Factory directed and conceived by Andy Burden, written by Hattie Naylor, music and lyrics by Paul Dodgson and a 2008 opera Through the Looking Glass by Alan John.

An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novella of the same name, Hemingway's agent, Leland Hayward, had previously written to the author: " Of all Hollywood people, the one that comes the closest to me in quality, in personality and voice, in personal dignity and ability, is Spencer Tracy.

Sometimes the libretto is written in close collaboration with the composer ; this can involve adaptation, as was the case with Rimsky-Korsakov and his librettist Bel ' sky, or an entirely original work.

It was adapted as a play, and a film adaptation, directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge, was released in 1996.

On a more secular note, feminist author Margery Hourihan has described the book as a " banal and mechanistic story which is written in flat, impoverished prose " and dismissed the central character from the movie adaptation of the book as " the girl-woman of Hollywood ".

This is a rare case of a game adaptation written by the creators of the stories that the game is based on.

In January and February 1839 an adaptation written and directed by and also starring Nathaniel Bannister was performed for four nights at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.

The most successful adaptation of the play in Britain premiered in 1850, written by Ira Aldridge and C. A.

An entire scene from Zaraffa, the Slave King, a play written specifically for Aldridge in Dublin in 1847 was included in this adaptation.

In 1970, Finnish TV channel Yle TV1 screened an adaptation of the play written and directed by Jukka Sipilä, starring Leo Lastumäki as Titus, Iris-Lilja Lassila as Tamora, Eugene Holman as Aaron and Maija Leino as Lavinia.