[3] A widely performed adaptation by playwright Michael Frayn, given the title Wild Honey, debuted at London's National Theatre in 1984, starring Ian McKellen as Platonov.
[8] The work has been adapted and produced at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2001 by David Hare, starring Aidan Gillen (Mikhail) and Helen McCrory (Anna).
[11] Andrew Upton adapted the play in 2015 under the title The Present for the Sydney Theatre Company where it was directed by John Crowley and performed by Cate Blanchett (Anna), Richard Roxburgh (Mikhail), Jacqueline McKenzie (Sophia), Marshall Napier (Ivan) and Toby Schmitz (Nikolai).
[16] BBC Television produced a version for their Play of the Month series in 1971 which features Rex Harrison in the title role.
[17] In 1977 writer Aleksandr Adabashyan and director Nikita Mikhalkov transformed the work into another film, Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино (Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino), made in Russian by Mosfilm and released in the west as An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano.
[7][18] This in turn was reworked by Trevor Griffiths into a new stage version called Piano, produced at the Cottesloe Theatre, London, in August 1990.