Editing Heart of Darkness (section)

===Radio and stage===
[[Orson Welles]] adapted and starred in ''Heart of Darkness'' in a [[CBS Radio]] broadcast on 6 November 1938 as part of his series, ''[[The Mercury Theatre on the Air]]''. In 1939, Welles adapted the story for his first film for [[RKO Pictures]],<ref name=var/> writing a screenplay with [[John Houseman]]. The story was adapted to focus on the rise of a [[fascism|fascist]] dictator.<ref name=var/> Welles intended to play Marlow and Kurtz<ref name=var>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=13 June 1979|page=24|title=Orson Welles Prior Interest In Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'|last=Hitchens|first=Gordon}}</ref> and it was to be entirely filmed as a POV from Marlow's eyes. Welles even filmed a short presentation film illustrating his intent. It is reportedly lost. The film's prologue to be read by Welles said "You aren't going to see this picture - this picture is going to happen to you."<ref name=var/> The project was never realised; one reason given was the loss of European markets after the outbreak of [[World War II]]. Welles still hoped to produce the film when he presented another radio adaptation of the story as his first program as producer-star of the CBS radio series ''[[This Is My Best]]''. Welles scholar [[Bret Wood]] called the broadcast of 13 March 1945, "the closest representation of the film Welles might have made, crippled, of course, by the absence of the story's visual elements (which were so meticulously designed) and the half-hour length of the broadcast."<ref name="Bret Wood">[[Bret Wood|Wood, Bret]], ''Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography''. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990 {{ISBN|0-313-26538-0}}</ref>{{Rp|95, 153–156,136–137|date=March 2014}}

In 1991, Australian author/playwright [[Larry Buttrose]] wrote and staged a theatrical adaptation titled ''Kurtz'' with the Crossroads Theatre Company, [[Sydney]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsB/buttrose-larry.html| url-status=live | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211121/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsB/buttrose-larry.html| archive-date=21 November 2021|title=Larry Buttrose|publisher=doollee.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The play was announced to be broadcast as a radio play to Australian radio audiences in August 2011 by the [[Vision Australia Radio]] Network,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=749|title=Vision Australia|publisher=Visionaustralia.org|access-date=17 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801191453/http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=749|archive-date=1 August 2012}}</ref> and also by the RPH – [[Radio Print Handicapped Network]] across Australia. In 2011, composer [[Tarik O'Regan]] and librettist [[Tom Phillips (artist)|Tom Phillips]] adapted an [[Heart of Darkness (opera)|opera of the same name]], which premiered at the [[Linbury Studio Theatre|Linbury Theatre]] of the [[Royal Opera House]] in London.<ref>[http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=17248 Royal Opera House Page for ''Heart of Darkness''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020223221/http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=17248 |date=20 October 2011 }} by [[Tarik O'Regan]] and [[Tom Phillips (artist)|Tom Phillips]]</ref> A suite for orchestra and narrator was subsequently extrapolated from it.<ref name=RPO>{{Citation|title=''Suite from Heart of Darkness'' first London performance|publisher=Cadogan Hall|url=http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-130423/| url-status=live | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211121/http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-130423/| archive-date=21 November 2021|access-date=17 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2015, an adaptation of Welles' screenplay by [[Jamie Lloyd (director)|Jamie Lloyd]] and [[Laurence Bowen]] aired on [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness, Unmade Movies, Drama – BBC Radio 4|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06k9bz9| url-status=live | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211121/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06k9bz9| archive-date=21 November 2021|publisher = BBC|access-date = 3 November 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The production starred [[James McAvoy]] as Marlow. Another BBC Radio 4 adaptation, first broadcast in 2021, transposes the action to the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Heart of Darkness, Drama – BBC Radio 4|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rbpg|publisher = BBC|access-date = 8 April 2024}}</ref>