1.   Her play was adapted for the big screen.

2.   This is the first time the play has been adapted for the big screen.

3.   Author Edwin Gordon adapted the play.

4.   After a few years, however, he grew disenchanted with his studies and started working as an assistant film editor and adapting plays for the theater.

5.   Busch, adapting his play, has tweaked some of the script, adding a nifty trick ending.

6.   Eric Bogosian adapts his play about a collection of young nonentities waiting for something to happen in a generic stretch of gas stations and convenience stores called Burnfield.

7.   Granted, Mamet simply adapted the play, but he directed the film with a sort of studied reverence for such values as loyalty and propriety.

8.   Miller adapted the play into a film, which he also directed.

9.   Now Margulies has adapted the play for television, with both strengths and weaknesses intact.

10.   They similarly have turned away from adapting plays, particularly those with less than upbeat, reassuring themes.