When and Where

Adaptations obviously change. One person's take on a story or piece of work will always be different from another, but on an even larger scale, such as time and place, it changes just as much. Just like we have seen in two different version of Macbeth, Wells' and Gould's, one stays true to the time and place, where as the other is brought to modern times while still telling the same story of a power hungry man killing to get to the top.

These cultural and spacial differences are an important aspect, according to Hutcheon and as someone who agrees, and the author uses the famous opera Carmen to show her point. If Carmen were to be done as it was when it was originally written, many people would be thrown off put by the true Spanish acting and context of it, and not as many would go to see it,  but if it were updated and brought into the twenty first century, modernized and westernized, then more people would be drawn in, thus making it more of a crowd pleaser and more entertaining for a larger audience. Even if someone who is an A-List celebrity were to play the leading lady, more people would want to go out and see the adaptation, opposed to a no name.