Far From The Madding Crowd - Adaptations

Adaptations

An 1882 stage adaptation, written by Hardy with J. Comyns Carr starred Marion Terry.

There are several films based on this book. The best known is John Schlesinger's 1967 adaptation starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, and Alan Bates. The others are:

• Far from the Madding Crowd (1915)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1998)

There have also been several radio plays, a musical (2000), a ballet "Far from the Madding Crowd" by David Bintley for Birmingham Royal Ballet (1996), and an opera, Far from the Madding Crowd by Andrew Downes (2006).

As of 2008, David Nicholls is adapting the novel for BBC Films.

Tamara Drewe is a comic strip serial based upon a modern reworking of the novel by Posy Simmonds. The mischievous valentine becomes an e-mail, while death in childbirth becomes death from a drug overdose. It was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Stephen Frears in 2010 which starred Gemma Arterton who also played Tess Durbyfield in BBC's adaption of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

In Autumn 2008, English Touring Theatre (ETT) toured Britain with a new stage adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd directed by Kate Saxon.