The first film version of the novel was made in 1914, but it has since been lost.[28] Graeae Theatre Company, (UKs Professional Disabled Theatre Company) London, Musical devised from the book, performed at Oval House Theatre, 1992/1993. Devised/Directed/Lyrics by Fiona Branson . Cast included Katherine Araniello; Suzanne Bull; Mik Scarlet; Freddie Stabb; Tom Tomalin; Sam Frears ETC.[29]
Saint Joan of the Stockyards is a play set in Chicago written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht between 1929 and 1931, after the success of his musical The Threepenny Opera and during the period of his radical experimental work with the Lehrstücke. It is based on the musical that he co-authored with Elisabeth Hauptmann, Happy End (1929).[30][31] The environment of the Chicago stockyards was well-known to left-wing activists worldwide due to Sinclair's 1906 novel. Sinclair had spent about six months investigating the Chicago meatpacking industry for the paper Appeal to Reason, the work which inspired his novel and he intended to "set forth the breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit".[32]
In July, 2019, Ten Speed Graphic published a Graphic Novel version of the story, Adapted and Illustrated by Kristina Gehrmann, Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
