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==Adaptations== [[Stephen Briggs]] adapted the novel for the stage in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|title=Goodreads: Mort: The Play|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149847.Mort|access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref> The novel was adapted as a graphic novel, ''Mort: The Big Comic'', published in 1994. The novel has been adapted by Robin Brooks for [[BBC Radio Four]]. Narrated by [[Anton Lesser]], with [[Geoffrey Whitehead]] as Death, [[Carl Prekopp]] as Mort, Clare Corbett as Ysabell and Alice Hart as Princess Keli, the programme was first broadcast in four parts in mid-2004 and has been repeated frequently, most recently on [[Radio 4 Extra]].<ref>[http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/m/mo/mort.html Mort] at BBC Radio Listings website</ref> On 15 December 2007 a German-language stage musical adaptation premiered in [[Hamburg]].<ref name="ia_20081229_mort-musical-website">{{cite web | title=Mort - Das Musical | year=2008 | url=http://www.mort-musical.de/index.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229154123/http://www.mort-musical.de/index.htm | archive-date=29 December 2008 | url-status=dead | quote=Klosterwall 11 20095 Hamburg (Hauptbahnhof) }}</ref> An English musical adaptation of ''Mort'' was presented in [[Guildford]] in August 2008 by [[Youth Music Theatre UK]]. The adaptation was by Jenifer Toksvig (sister of [[Sandi Toksvig]]) and the composer was Dominic Haslam.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070708083035/http://www.acompletelossforwords.com/mort.html Toksvig/Haslam Musical] website of the UK Aug 2008 adaptation</ref> A new production, directed by Luke Sheppard, was staged at the Greenwich Theatre in 2011.
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