Points for assessing whether traditional stories have any relevance to the modern world.
• Most traditional stories have universal themes (good v evil, heroism, deception and betrayal, identity) which are relevant today
• Need to adapt character/setting to a modern setting
• Can the cultural context be maintained? (cultures do develop and change)
• Makes them accessible to new audiences
• How do you update the social/historic context?
• Identify the subtle/moral teachings within the story
• Updating could lose the folklore tone/atmosphere
• Often the setting remains traditional but the language is modernised or becomes a pantomime (traditional)/a musical
• As in oral traditions modernising can keep the story alive/in the modern consciousness
