Editing Gormenghast (series) (section)

==Adaptations==

===Radio===
The [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] produced a dramatization of all three Gormenghast novels. It was first broadcast in 1983 as eight one-hour episodes, and repeated in 1986 in four two-hour parts. This is the first adaptation that includes ''[[Titus Alone]]'' in addition to ''[[Titus Groan]]'' and ''[[Gormenghast (novel)|Gormenghast]]''.

In 1984, [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast two 90-minute plays based on ''[[Titus Groan]]'' and ''[[Gormenghast (novel)|Gormenghast]]'', adapted by [[Brian Sibley]] and starring [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] as [[Steerpike]] and [[Freddie Jones]] as the Artist (narrator). A slightly abridged compilation of the two, running to 160 minutes, and titled ''Titus Groan of Gormenghast'', was broadcast on [[Christmas|Christmas Day]], 1992. [[BBC Radio 4 Extra|BBC 7]] repeated the original versions on 21 and 28 September 2003.

In 2011, Brian Sibley, who had previously adapted the book for radio in 1984, adapted the story again, this time as six one-hour episodes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as the [[Classic Serial]] starting on 10 July 2011. The serial was titled ''The History of Titus Groan'' and adapted all three novels written by Peake and the recently discovered concluding volume, ''[[Titus Awakes]]'', completed by his widow, [[Maeve Gilmore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012f7gz|title=The History of Titus Groan, Classic Serial |publisher= BBC Radio 4|access-date=5 April 2017}}</ref> It starred [[Luke Treadaway]] as Titus, [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]] as the Artist and [[Carl Prekopp]] as Steerpike. Also starring were [[Paul Rhys]] (Sepulchrave), [[Miranda Richardson]] (Gertrude), [[James Fleet]] (Prunesquallor), [[Tamsin Greig]] (Irma Prunesquallor), [[Fenella Woolgar]] (Clarice Groan), [[Adrian Scarborough]] (Flay) and [[Mark Benton]] (Swelter).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012f7ms|title=Titus Arrives, The History of Titus Groan, Classic Serial |publisher= BBC Radio 4|access-date= 5 April 2017}}</ref>

===Television===
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In 2000, the [[BBC]] and the [[PBS]] station [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]] of [[Boston]] produced ''[[Gormenghast (TV serial)|Gormenghast]]'', a four-part serial based on the first two books. The cast included [[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]] as [[Steerpike]] and [[Christopher Lee]] as [[#Other Castle dwellers|Mr. Flay]]. The series achieved success on British television.

Also made in 2000, the 30-minute TV short film ''[[Boy in Darkness|A Boy in Darkness]]'' (adapted from Peake's novella ''Boy in Darkness'') was the first production from the BBC Drama Lab. It was set in a "virtual" computer-generated world created by young computer game designers, and starred [[Jack Ryder (actor)|Jack Ryder]] as "The Boy" (a teenage Titus Groan), with [[Terry Jones]] narrating.

In 2018 it was announced that [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Akiva Goldsman]] would adapt the series into a television series for [[FremantleMedia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/gaiman-board-gormenghast-tv-adaptation-1070481#|work=[[The Bookseller]]|title=Gaiman on board for Gormenghast TV adaptation|first=Saskia|last=Calliste|date=19 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/04/neil-gaiman-a-beautiful-minds-akiva-goldsman-to-adapt-fantasy-novels-gormenghast-for-fremantlemedia-north-america-1202356738|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403144759/http://deadline.com/2018/04/neil-gaiman-a-beautiful-minds-akiva-goldsman-to-adapt-fantasy-novels-gormenghast-for-fremantlemedia-north-america-1202356738/|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 April 2018|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |title= Neil Gaiman & 'A Beautiful Mind's Akiva Goldsman To Adapt Fantasy Novels 'Gormenghast' For FremantleMedia |first= Peter |last= White |date= 3 April 2018| access-date= February 23, 2021}}</ref>

===Theatre===
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The minimalist stage version of ''Gormenghast'' dramatised by [[John Constable (writer)|John Constable]] was performed by the David Glass Ensemble. Having premiered at the Alhambra Theatre Bradford in 1992, the play was performed at Battersea Arts Centre, the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, on UK and British Council international tours. Constable's stripped-down stage adaptation is published by Bloomsbury.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gormenghast-9781840026733/ | title=Gormenghast }}</ref> It was directed by David Glass, combining mime with melodrama and magic realism, designed by Rae Smith with music by John Eacott. A revival of ''Gormenghast'' toured UK theatres during 2006 and 2007.

A stage version of ''Titus Alone'' was produced at the [[University of Sussex]] in 2001, using sound and physical theatre to evoke the strange world beyond Gormenghast Castle. It focused on themes of madness and the nature of reality to question whether Titus's memories of the castle are real, or merely fantasies of a damaged mind. It was particularly inspired by Mervyn Peake's loss of his mental faculties due to Parkinson's-induced dementia.

Carabosse Theatre Company produced a stage version of the first two books of the trilogy called 'Gormenghast' in October 2014 at the Chrysalis Theatre in Milton Keynes. The project was officially endorsed by Fabian Peake (Mervyn Peake's son) and the Mervyn Peake estate. Co-writers of the company's adaptation included its director Sally Luff and the actor Tim Dalgleish. This production used projection mapping, an elaborate set (designed by the artist Shelley Wyn-de-Bank) and colourful costume. http://www.carabosse.org

===Music===
[[Irmin Schmidt]], founder of the seminal German experimental group [[Can (band)|Can]], composed a three-act opera, ''[[Gormenghast (opera)|Gormenghast]]'', based on the novels. It premiered at the [[Opernhaus Wuppertal]] in 1998 and was released on CD the following year.<ref>{{cite book| last= Steiger| first= Karsten |year= 2008| title= Opern-Diskographie| page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zk9HSVAUarkC&pg=PA428 428]| publisher= Walter de Gruyter |language= de| isbn= }}</ref> A number of songs, including "Stranger Than Fiction" and "Titus" by New Zealand rock group [[Split Enz]] and "The Drowning Man" by [[The Cure]], have been inspired by Peake's work.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}} The British progressive rock group [[Strawbs]] feature a [[John Ford (musician)|Ford]]/[[Richard Hudson (musician)|Hudson]] composition called "Lady Fuschia" (sic) on their 1973 album ''[[Bursting at the Seams]]'', about one of the protagonists of this trilogy. Northern Irish progressive rock band [[Fruupp]] included a song called "Gormenghast", inspired by the novels, on their 1975 album ''[[Modern Masquerades]]''. The early 1970s folk rock band ''[[Fuchsia (band)|Fuchsia]]'' was named after the character in the novels.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.nightwings.org/files/Fuchsia-story.htm| title= Fuchsia |website= nightwings.org |access-date= 24 February 2021}}</ref> The song "Room of Roots" on [[Al Stewart]]'s 1970 album ''[[Zero She Flies]]'' is inspired by the chapter in ''Titus Groan'' about the tree roots painted by the sisters Cora and Clarice Groan; Mervyn Peake is credited in the sleeve notes. The 1970s progressive rock band Titus Groan took their name from the first volume of the trilogy and two songs were named after two book's chapters, "Fuschia" (sic) and "Hall of Bright Carvings".