Are stage adaptations always inferior?

- Sean Foley says: Theatre is getting smarter at page-to-stage translations.

- which William Shakespeare were it´s really no different to what Dennis Kelly has done with “Matilda” or the creators of “War Horse” with “Michael Morpurgo´s” story today.

-Shakespeare published texts, but if he were writing today he would almost certainly turn his attention to movies, online stories, TV formats and maybe even video games, etc.

- Perhaps he would even have seen the theatrical potential of The X Factor, which is being made into a stage musical, “I Can't Sing”

- Certainly no shortage of Jacobean-style tragedy and backstabbing in “The X Factor”.

-Shakespeare proves, it is possible to plunder a source while creating something wholly original.

-But Foley says he does "not understand people saying I Can't Sing is not a fit subject to make a musical out of", and argues that the "theatre establishment" can be "snobby" about adaptation.

- But the movies have never had the slightest qualm about taking something from one medium and transforming in another. Why should theatre see adaptation as second-best?..... The change in attitudes to stage adaptations is happening because the nature of stage adaptations has changed.

-in any adaptations of theatre, the  honour and transcend their source material, and they could be as richly rewarding a theatrical experience as any original play.