Paradise Lost in popular culture
"Paradise Lost" has had a profound impact on writers, artists and illustrators, and, in the twentieth century, filmmakers. On radio. A 41 15-minute episode production by Adrian Mitchell was broadcast in 1992 on BBC Radio 4, with Denis Quilley as Milton, Ian McDiarmid as Satan, Linus Roache as Adam, Robert Glenister as Christ, Matthew Morgan as Beelzebub, Mark Straker as Michael and Federay Holmes as Eve. This production was re-broadcast in 2010 on BBC Radio 7. A 12-part reading by Anton Lesser was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from 22 December 2008  to 2 January 2009. A two-part adaptation by Michael Symmons Roberts was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 24 and 25 March 2018, with Ian McKellen as Milton, Frances Barber as Elizabeth, Simon Russell Beale as Satan, Jonathan Keeble as Beelzebub and Russell Dixon as God. In theatre. "Paradise Lost" was adapted for the stage by The Vista Hills Theatre Troupe and performed as a two-act play, November 11 and 12, 2011, in El Paso, Texas. "Paradise Lost" was adapted into a musical by Sight and Sound Theaters in 2007 - 2008. The show combines elements from both Genesis  (the creation of the world as well as man, the betrayal from God and Adam and Eve's Exile, and the entirety of Cain and Abel) and "Paradise Lost", as well as original ideas. "Paradise Lost" was performed on stage in Stratford Festival in 2018 starting Lucy Peacock as the devil and Amelia Sargisson as Eve.