The book inspired a play, two films, a ballet and an opera: • 1974: the
documentary film Awakenings, produced by Duncan Dallas for
Yorkshire Television as the first episode and pilot of the British television programme
Discovery. The documentary won a Red Ribbon at the 1978
American Film Festival and first prize at the 1978 International Rehabilitation Film Festival. • 1982: the play
A Kind of Alaska by
Harold Pinter, performed as part of a trilogy of Pinter's plays titled
Other Places. • 1990: the Oscar-nominated film
Awakenings, starring
Robert De Niro and
Robin Williams. • 2010: the ballet
Awakenings, composed by
Tobias Picker for the
Rambert Dance Company, and premiered by Rambert in
Salford, UK. • 2022: the opera
Awakenings, also composed by Picker, commissioned by
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, with a libretto by Picker's husband
Aryeh Lev Stollman, premiered on 11 June 2022. ==References==