Science fiction theatre

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Science fiction theatre includes live dramatic works, but generally not cinema or television programmes. It has long been overshadowed by its literary and broadcast counterparts, but has a long history, and indeed introduced the word robot into global usage.

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Chronological selection of science fiction plays

• Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein adapted from Mary Shelley's novel of the same name by Richard Brinsley Peake, 1823
• Journey Through the Impossible by Jules Verne and Adolphe d'Ennery, 1882
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Thomas Russell Sullivan, 1887
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde an unauthorised adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by John McKinney, 1888
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Luella Forepaugh and George F. Fish, 1897
• R.U.R. by Karel ?apek, 1920
• The Blue Flame by George V. Hobart and John Willard, 1920
• Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw, 1922
• The Makropulos Affair by Karel ?apek, 1922
• The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1929
• The Bathhouse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1930
• Night of the Auk by Arch Oboler, 1956
• The Bedsitting Room by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus, 1962
• The Curse of the Daleks by David Whitaker and Terry Nation, 1965
• Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday by Terrence Dicks, 1974
• Starstruck by Elaine Lee, 1980
• Henceforward... by Alan Ayckbourn, 1987
• A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music by Anthony Burgess adapted from his novel of the same name, 1987
• Greenland by Howard Brenton, 1988
• Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure by Terrence Dicks, 1989
• They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson, 1991 short story later adapted by author as a play
• Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn, 1994
• Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn, 1998
• Whenever by Alan Ayckbourn, 2000
• A Number by Caryl Churchill, 2004
• My Sister Sadie by Alan Ayckbourn, 2003
• The Cut by Mark Ravenhill, 2004
• Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley, 2005
• Klingon Christmas Carol by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom and Sasha Warren, 2007
• Really Old, Like Forty Five by Tamsin Oglesby, 2010
• A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky by David Eldridge, Robert Holman and Simon Stephens, 2010
• Earthquakes in London by Mike Bartlett, 2010
• Doctor Who Live by Will Brenton and Gareth Roberts, 2010
• Frankenstein adapted from Mary Shelley's novel of the same name by Nick Dear, 2011
• Future Shock by Richard Stockwell, 2011
• The Nether by Jennifer Haley, 2011
• The Crash of the Elysium by Tom MacRae, 2011
• Constellations by Nick Payne, 2012
• Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn, 2012
• Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth adapted by Richard Schenkman from Jerome Bixby's film of the same name
• 1984 adapted from George Orwell's novel of the same name by Robert Icke and Duncan MacMillan, 2013
• King Charles III by Mike Bartlett, 2014
• The Future Boys Trilogy by Stephen Jordan, 2012-2015
• Game by Mike Bartlett, 2015
• Elegy by Nick Payne, 2016

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Notable science fiction dramatists

• Ray Bradbury
• Josef ?apek
• Karel ?apek
• Kurt Vonnegut

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See also

• Science fiction opera

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External links

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