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TABLE OF CONTENTS NO L COWARD LIST OF WORKS 2 MUSICALS 3 ONE ACT PLAYS 4 PLAYS 6 TERENCE RATTIGAN LIST OF WORKS 11 ONE ACT PLAYS 11 PLAYS 11 GRAHAM GREENE LIST OF WORKS 15 PLAYS 15 ADAPTATIONS 16 NOVELS 17 CECIL P TAYLOR LIST OF WORKS 21 PLAYS 21 EDUARDO DE FILIPPO LIST OF WORKS 24 PLAYS 24 PATRICK HAMILTON LIST OF WORKS 27 PLAYS 27 NOVELS 28 RADIO PLAYS 30 EMLYN WILLIAMS LIST OF WORKS 31 PLAYS 31 JOHN HOPKINS LIST OF WORKS 33 PLAYS 33 JULIAN SLADE LIST OF WORKS 36 MUSICALS 36 THORNTON WILDER LIST OF WORKS 38 PLAYS 38 ONE ACT 39 NOVELS 41 BRECHT LIST OF WORKS 43 PLAYS 43 EARLY ONE ACT PLAYS 55 1

SIX LEHRST CKE 58 OTHER 60 AVAILABLE FILM TV RIGHTS 61 NO L COWARD 61 Prose 61 Plays 61 PATRICK HAMILTON 61 Prose 61 Plays 61 JOHN HOPKINS 62 Plays 62 Screenplays 62 STEPHEN MACDONALD 62 Plays 62 TOM MCGRATH 62 Plays 62 TERENCE RATTIGAN 62 Plays 62 THORNTON WILDER 62 Prose 62 Plays 63 EMLYN WILLIAMS 63 Plays 63 2

NO L COWARD LIST OF WORKS MUSICALS Operette 1938 MUSICAL Set in the year 1906 at the fictional Jubilee theatre an ageing Viennese operetta star warns the young ing nue not to marry a nobleman Ace of Clubs 1950 MUSICAL DRAMA CRIME ROMANTIC COMEDY Set around the Ace of Clubs a Soho night club this is a story of show girls romance gangster dealings and deceptions humoresque confusion and of London life in the 1950 s The Girl Who Came To Supper 1963 MUSICAL ROMANTIC DRAMA Musical comedy based on Terence Rattigan s play The Sleeping Prince the story is set in 1911 at the time of George V s coronation After seeing a performance of the West End musical The Coconut Girl American born chorus girl Mary Morgan captivates Charles the widowed Prince Regent and becomes involved in the actions of his teenage son King Nicholas Pacific 1860 1946 MUSICAL DRAMA 6m 5f Life carries on serenely in Samolo a South Sea island jewel in Queen Victoria s crown until Madame Salvador the celebrated diva arrives to disturb the safe routine of the Stirling family and particularly that of Kerry their youngest son The two fall in love but middle class Victorian morality parts them Pacific 1860 features one of Coward s most attractive scores written for the show that starred Mary Martin and re opened Drury Lane after World War II but never heard in the U S After the Ball 1954 MUSICAL ADAPTATION PERIOD ROMANTIC COMEDY 6m 6f This concert version of the No l Coward musical based on Oscar Wilde s classic play premiered at the Covent Garden Festival and the Chicago Humanities Festival to honor No l Coward in his Centenary Year The young Lady Windermere discovers that her husband has been seeing Mrs Erlynne a fascinating older woman so she determines to run away with her admirer Lord Darlington Her honor is saved when Mrs Erlynne intervenes and in the process compromises herself in the eyes of Victorian society Sail Away 1961 MUSICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY 9m 8f The No l Coward musical Sail Away tells the story of a romantic love affair aboard a cruise ship with all the classic wit and charm of Broadway s golden era Recent divorc e Mimi Paragon a role originated by Elaine Stritch is stuck serving tourists as one of the ship s hostesses when she is drawn to the much younger and strikingly 3

handsome Johnny Van Mier Complicating their relationship is a host of eccentric and hilarious cruise ship characters from the cynical and quirky Sweeney couple to Johnny s dominating and diva like mother Mrs Van Mier to the wacky novelist Spencer Bollard and her wide eyed niece Nancy Bitter Sweet 1929 MUSICAL PERIOD 12f 2m Everything that wealthy London society had to offer a properly brought up girl lay at the feet of little Sarah Millick in 1875 but she fell so desperately in love with her handsome young singing master that she threw it all away in order to be with him Conversation Piece 1934 MUSICAL ROMANTIC DRAMA 16f 12m In the decades following the French revolution Paul Duc de Chaucigny Varennes has come to Brighton to escape the terrors He is accompanied by Melanie a dance hall singer whom Paul passes off as his ward and the offspring of his murdered friend Paul plans to marry her off to a member of Brighton s high society Melanie however has other plans With the help of her suitor Edward she plots to outmanoeuvre Lady Julia Charteris in the hope of getting her heart s desires ONE ACT The Better Half 1922 SHORT 2f 1m Alice and David are in an unhappy married relationship Marion is the understanding friend whom David wants to have an affair with Alice tries to push David and Marion together by confessing to affairs of her own and David infuriates her by being so very understanding about it all Contained in the anthology London s Grand Guignol Fumed Oak Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 3f 1m Comedy Henry Gow loathes his awful wife their adenoidal child and his repulsive mother in law One evening he tells them what he thinks of them and announces that with 500 saved he is going to leave them And off he goes Come into the Garden Maud Suite in 3 Keys 1966 COMEDY 2m 2f Affable Verner Conklin has endured his ill humoured wife for years When faced with odd numbers for dinner she orders him to dine in their suite with Maud Caragani When Anna Mary then snappishly tells Verner to go away he does with Maud Shadows of the Evening Suite in 3 Keys 1966 DRAMA OLDER CAST 2m 2f George has only a few months to live George his mistress Linda and his estranged wife Anne agree that he will go back to Anne to be with his children and because he has continued to love her as well as Linda 4

Red Peppers Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 4m 2f Comedy with music George and Lily are a music hall act which is not going well One night they argue with the MD and the manager Lily throws her hat at the MD who is playing a number impossibly fast The Astonished Heart Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT DRAMA PERIOD 4m 3f In psychiatrist Christian Faber s drawing room sits his weeping wife and his sad assistants waiting for the siren Leonora In four flashbacks the story emerges Leonora a girlhood chum visited Christian s wife and was introduced to him She set out to capture her friend s husband but was captured herself She threw him over because of his jealousy He jumped out of the window Leonora has come because Christian calls for her on his death bed She returns slowly from his room to announce he has died and that his last words were tender ones to his wife for whom he mistook Leonora We Were Dancing Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 5m 3f Single Karl and married Louise grow sentimental while waltzing and fall desperately in love When Louise s stodgy husband finds them kissing she must ask her new lover his name in order to introduce him to her socially impeccable husband After a night of discussion frequently interrupted by sandwiches and drinks Louise wins her freedom but finds in the light of dawn that she doesn t want it Ways and Means Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 5m 4f Toby Stella find themselves in the Riviera with no money and an outstayed welcome A burglar breaks in Stella offers to direct him to the rich guest s stash if he will go halves He agrees and leaves them tied up to allay suspicion Hands Across the Sea Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 5m 4f Comedy Piggie Gilpin Lady Dalborough invite all their world tour hosts to a party on their return to London An unassuming couple from Malaya stray into the party bewildered by the other guests and forgotten by the hostess Family Album Tonight at 8 30 1935 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 5m 4f Just back from their father s funeral the Featherway children cannot pull long faces nor feign regret The last one to break into laughter is pious Lavinia father s companion until his death Even she must admit that he was lecherous and mean After some wine Lavinia reveals that she and old Burrows burned the final will which left nothing to the children minutes after the old man died 5

Shadow Play Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT DRAMA PERIOD 5m 4f Victoria has just returned from the theatre where she saw a romantic musical She quells a headache with three Anytal tablets just before her husband enters and announces divorce plans Victoria head buzzing attempts to understand his reasons She slips into a fantastic dream that reviews their meeting courtship and marriage Coming to she clings to her husband and he reconsiders Still Life Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT DRAMA PERIOD 6m 5f Married woman Laura starts an affair with Alec Harvey After several months they find they can t go on Alec takes an appointment in South Africa and they part with just a handshake Star Chamber Tonight at 8 30 1936 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 6m 5f A meeting takes place of the management committee of a theatrical charity the Garrick Haven Fund to benefit a retirement home for destitute actresses PLAYS A Song at Twilight 1966 COMEDY STRONG MALE LEAD 2m 2f This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmopolitan author caught in his declining years between two women one being his wife of convenience for twenty years the other one of his former loves Private Lives 1930 COMEDY PERIOD ROMANCE 3f 2m Sybil and Elyot arrive at a hotel in France for their honeymoon to discover Amanda Elyot s first wife in the adjoining suite with her new husband Victor Amanda Elyot elope Fallen Angels 1925 COMEDY 3m 3f Best friends now happily married to others Julia and Jane both once counted the dashing Frenchman Maurice as their lover Guess who s back in town and requesting the pleasure of the ladies company Coward at his inimitable best the story is a champagne cocktail of wit and charm Blithe Spirit 1942 COMEDY FARCE 5f 2m Widower Charles has re married After bringing Madame Arcati in to conduct a s ance his first wife s is inadvertently summoned proceeds to haunt the house Tension occurs between old and new wives and all 3 wind up in the spirit world 6

Hay Fever 1925 COMEDY FARCE FAMILY 5f 4m Period comedy 1925 Ultra bohemian all of Bliss family have invited friends for the weekend and each Bliss is furious Their histrionic antics send their guests scuttling away first thing in the morning The Vortex 1925 DRAMA 5m 4f In The Vortex Coward explores the darker side of the Cocktail Party set Emotional blackmail drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was more usually turned towards the light The Marquise 1927 COMEDY 6m 3f When a Count and a Duke having been close friends since their youth want their respective children to marry each other the young couple concerned Adrienne and Miguel are not happy with this arrangement for although fond of each other they both love someone else Relative Values 1958 COMEDY 5m 5f Light comedy Moxie and Miranda are estranged sisters Moxie is a maid Miranda a film star Tensions mount when Miranda becomes engaged to Nigel the son of Felicity whom Moxie works for Moxie blurts out the truth about Miranda I ll Leave it to You 1920 COMEDY 6f 4m Left a widow with five grown up children Mrs Dermot turns to brother Dan for help Uncle Dan arrives to find an idle family ready to live on his money He announces that he is doomed to die in three years and that he will leave his money to the member of the family who has made good by then Each sets to with such determination that Oliver becomes a successful inventor Evangeline a novelist Bobbie a composer and Sylvia a film star even Joyce finishing her school career distinguishes herself Now he tells the family his riches are a myth and his previous announcement was only a means to raise the family from lethargy Design for Living 1933 COMEDY 6m 4f From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer Gilda playwright Leo and artist Otto three people unashamedly and passionately in love with each other They are trapped in what Coward called a three sided erotic hodge podge 7

Brief Encounter 2007 DRAMA ROMANCE ADAPTATION No l Coward and Emma Rice 7m 3f Your heart dances The world seems strange and new You want to laugh and skip and fall forever You are in love You are in love with the wrong person Laura the respectable suburban wife and Alec the idealistic married doctor meet in a station buffet fall passionately in love but are doomed never to find fulfilment Emma Rice former Joint Artistic Director of the Company has adapted Coward s classic 1945 screenplay and the one act play Still Life on which it was based into a richly theatrical imaginative and vibrant piece of theatre Present Laughter 1939 COMEDY FARCE PERIOD 6f 5m Writer Garry Essendine fends off the copious female attention aspiring obsessional writers his ex wife and jealous friends while trying to get a decent lie in in the mornings South Sea Bubble 1956 8m 3f The governor of the South Seas island of Samolo Sir George Shotter favours selfgovernment for the island but is opposed by an old Etonian local grandee Hali Alani Star Quality 2000 COMEDY No l Coward and Chris Luscombe 7m 5f Behind the scenes of a new West End play between the temperamental leading lady the ruthless director and hapless young playwright the clash of egos is increasingly hilarious and bloody This Happy Breed 1943 COMEDY 7f 5m Spanning 17 years between WW1 and WW2 Frank settles in Clapham in 1919 with his wife Ethel A respectable working class home experiences marriage separation and sorrow The Young Idea COMEDY PERIOD 7m 7f This comedy of youth in three acts is a light and sprightly early work in which two precocious siblings run circles around their elders and betters in order to engineer the reconciliation of their divorced parents Sholto and Gerda are visiting their father s country home in order to hunt learn about English society and split up their father from his second wife The entertainments of the English country gentry are a far cry from the sun baked Italian villa they have grown up in with their mother and their satirical volleys against the horsy aristocracy are as delightful as their whispered conspiracy to orchestrate a happy ending for their parents 8

Volcano 1956 COMEDY 7m 7f Based on Coward s hedonistic life in Jamaica On Samola a fictional Caribbean island Adela Shelley a widow in her early forties is faced with the ghosts of her passionate past when Guy Littleton a handsome Lothario returns on a visit and in the process seduces a young married woman Ellen Danbury When their respective spouses arrive complications ensue Nude With Violin 1956 COMEDY 8m 6f Brilliant painter Paul Sorodin dies indecently close to death s heels come Sorodin s relatives his business manager and others who their grief not entirely untinged with greed anxiously await the reading of the will Sebastian valet and companion extraordinary to Sorodin steps in with some jolting surprises for the mourners One jolt makes it clear Sorodin was not all he had seemed Also on hand with revelations of their own are an eccentric Russian Princess an ex show girl an Eleventh Hour Immersionist and a mute but effective gentleman named Fabrice Before they get through reputations are arranged and rearranged Easy Virtue 1926 DRAMA COMEDY 9m 9f The family is scandalized when son arrives home married to an unsuitable older woman who drips diamonds pearls previous marriages and scandal She is also kindly articulate generous sympathetic and lovable unlike the other characters After a dramatic appearance wearing all of her jewellery at the family dance she leaves her young husband in the hands of his wholesome former sweetheart and makes a stylish exit Quadrille 1952 COMEDY PERIOD 10f 9m doubling possible A mild mannered fable about an errant couple who have run off from their respective spouses who are tracked down by the aforesaid spouses in a villa in France who are escorted back to their respective households and who are then ditched in turn by the pair who found them Long Island Sound 1947 COMEDY 12f 10m Set in New York Long Island Feted English author Evan visits the home of wealthy socialite Louisa for a quiet weekend but which turns out to be filled with her ghastly loud cronies He finally escapes through the window Look After Lulu 1959 COMEDY FARCE 16m 8f A farce based on Occupe toi d Amelie by Georges Feydeau A woman of the night is entrusted to a friend by her lover when he goes into the army 9

Cavalcade 1932 16f 12m The story of a family and a nation with a message of faith in the future Cavalcade was Coward s most ambitious stage project set during the Boer War which cost 30 000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age Post Mortem 1930 DOCUDRAMA HISTORIC PERIOD WAR A one act play in eight scenes written in 1930 by Coward after seeing Journey s End by RC Sherriff John Cavan is a young English soldier the son of a London editor fighting in the trenches in 1917 He argues with his fellow soldier Perry Lomas who believes John s father s newspaper is guilty of glorifying the war At the end of the scene John is mortally wounded by enemy fire The following six scenes take place in 1930 back in England as John s ghost encounters friends family and his girlfriend Monica and discovers what the war has meant to them not a great deal as it turns out Peace in Our Time 1947 DRAMA PERIOD WAR 22m 13f Coward begins his great drama with the premise that the Battle of Britain was lost and that the Nazis conquered and now occupy England Of the assorted people who frequent one particular pub we recognize some who bear themselves courageously under the occupation as well as some opportunists who are anxious to collaborate As the war wears on the weak surrender themselves to the enticements of the Nazis while the strong willed and those with longer memories grow bitter stubborn and rebellious 10

TERENCE RATTIGAN LIST OF WORKS ONE ACT Before Dawn 1973 COMEDY PERIOD 19th CENTURY 3m 1f An hilarious retelling of the play and opera Tosca with Scarpia as a swaggering villain who proves to be impotent Tosca as a proud beauty and a Captain who gets confused as to whether Scarpia means that Tosca s lover should really be executed or only appear to be Tosca s attempt to stab Scarpia is foiled by his knife proof vest PLAYS In Praise of Love 1973 DRAMA COMEDY 3m 1f Deception is the linchpin of this sophisticated comedy drama about a fatally ill wife and her ineffectual husband that starred Rex Harrison and Julie Harris on Broadway The Browning Version 1948 DRAMA 5m 2f Ill health is forcing Andrew to retire from teaching His wife despises him for his failures and finds consolation with Frank a younger teacher She openly taunts Andrew while Frank watches with disgust and shame The wife knows she has lost Frank but even more bitter is the realization he s now Andrew s fast friend Man and Boy 1963 DRAMA 5m 2f At the height of the Great Depression ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu s business is dangerously close to crumbling In order to escape the wolves at his door Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company saving deal Can this reunion help them reconcile Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play A gripping story about family success and what we re willing to sacrifice for both While the Sun Shines 1943 COMEDY 5m 2f Lord Harpenden is due to marry Lady Elisabeth Randall but neither seem overjoyed about it Matters are complicated when Elisabeth finds herself the object of three other suitors attentions and Harpenden s former flame turns up too 11

A Tale of Two Cities with John Gielgud 1950 DRAMA 5m 3f In a time when governments all over the world are facing down political unrest and fierce protests this revolutionary story has never been more relevant This adaptation marries three of the finest artists in their own fields that England has ever known Dickens the master story teller Rattigan the great playwright and Gielgud the mercurial actor Gielgud intended to play both Sydney Carton and a number of other roles and this adaptation reflects that ambition by having thirty characters played by just eight actors The Deep Blue Sea 1952 DRAMA ROMANCE 5m 3f The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love or the lack of it The play opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer who has deserted her husband for the charms of an ex fighter pilot First Episode with Philip Heimann 1933 DRAMA ROMANCE 6m 2f Student Tony is infatuated with older actress Margot and she too returns his passionate affections However she must compete with Tony s best friend David Rattigan s first play was written with fellow Oxford undergraduate Philip Heimann Variation on a Theme 1958 DRAMA ROMANCE PERIOD 5f 4m Inspired by La Dame aux Camelias and set amidst the glamorous and exotic society of the 1950s French Riviera Variation on a Theme revolves around the tempestuous love affair between Rose a beautiful and worldly socialite and Ron a young ballet dancer with a keen eye for social advancement Love in Idleness 1944 DRAMA ROMANCE 6f 4m Michael eighteen returns to wartime London from schooling in Canada brimming with youthful left wing convictions Reunited with his mother Olivia he is alarmed as he begins to realise that she is the mistress of Sir John Fletcher a leading member of the war cabinet Sparks fly between the idealistic young man and the pragmatic politician while Olivia is torn between them The available version was edited by Trevor Nunn using the original first draft Less Than Kind parts of which are interpolated with the text French Without Tears 1936 COMEDY PERIOD 7m 3f At a villa on the South Coast of France a group of young men are being coached in French by a gentleman and his daughter Jacqueline Learning French is hard but the experience is made easier by the presence of the glamorous Diana Lake who proceeds to charm the boys one by one until she decamps back to London leaving the forlorn suitors to the willing Jacqueline 12

Flare Path 1942 DRAMA PERIOD 7m 4f Filmed as The Way to the Stars and set in the 1940s Rattigan s famous play concerns Patricia s love for a film actor despite her marriage to Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham Going to the hotel to break with Teddy followed by Peter Pat encounters Doris married to a Polish Count who is one of two pilots not to return from a bombing raid Hearing the Count s last letter Pat realizes how much Teddy needs her and gives Peter his dismissal The Winslow Boy 1946 DRAMA PERIOD 7m 4f Cadet Ronnie Winslow is expelled from the Royal Naval College accused of stealing His father refusing to believe his guilt and dissatisfied with the manner in which the investigation was conducted demands a new inquiry This is refused and Arthur Winslow settles down to fight for his son s honour Following an independent inquiry the matter is taken to the House of Commons but Arthur ruins himself financially and in health in the process But his stubbornness wins a civil trial is allowed and Ronnie is acquitted Separate Tables 1954 DRAMA PERIOD 9f 2m These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England s south coast Except for the two leads in each which may be doubled the same characters appear in both In Table by the Window a down at the heels journalist is confronted by his exwife a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison destroying his future Still in love they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager Miss Cooper who helps repair their broken lives In Table Number Seven a self made army colonel without any true background and education to which he lays claim finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her ruthless domineering mother When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue After The Dance 1939 DRAMA PERIOD 8m 5f Set in the Mayfair flat of a high living hard drinking successful writer David Following his involvement with a younger woman his wife Joan kills herself and he considers following but turns back to drink Harlequinade 1948 COMEDY 9m 5f One of two Shakespearean ham actors touring the provinces has a dubious and shady past A Bequest to the Nation 1970 DRAMA PERIOD 19TH CENTURY 9m 7f A Bequest to the Nation is a 1970 play by Terence Rattigan based on his 1966 television play Nelson full title Nelson A Portrait in Miniature It recounts the events 13

surrounding Horatio Nelson his mistress Emma Hamilton and his wife Frances Nisbet in the events immediately before during and after the Battle of Trafalgar It also includes various other historical characters such as Thomas Hardy and William Nelson The title refers to Nelson leaving Emma and their child Horatia to the nation on his death Adventure Story 1949 DRAMA PERIOD CLASSICS 12m 5f A partly fictional account of Alexander the Great s journey to conquer the world and himself slowly becoming despotic as a result of his driving ambition to rule the world Cause Celebre 1977 DRAMA PERIOD 15m 5f When Alma engages the handsome but uncouth wood as odd job boy it has tragic consequences culminating in murder The play follows the course of the trial Ross 1960 DRAMA WAR 21m The story of British army officer T E Lawrence the inspiration for Lawrence of Arabia who in 1922 went undercover in the RAF picking as his alter ego a rather bookish man called Ross 14

GRAHAM GREENE LIST OF WORKS PLAYS Yes and No 1980 EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 2m A short experimental play recording a conversation between an unnamed Director and an unnamed Actor in which the latter s only lines as he discusses a play script with the Director are the words yes and no Carving a Statue 1964 DRAMA 3m 2f A father has used his young son as a model for the baby Jesus in a large divine sculpture of God which he has been working on for sixteen years However his son has now grown into a teenager and is therefore no longer useful as a model for his father s art and subsequently finds himself at emotional odds with his increasingly distant father who is beginning to misidentify himself with the divine image he is attempting to create For Whom the Bell Chimes 1980 COMEDY FARCE 5m 1f m A farce set in a one room studio apartment each act starts with the chime of the doorbell and the entrance of a new character into the increasing chaos onstage The Living Room 1953 MELODRAMA 5f 2m Graham Greene s debut play is a vivid exploration of the tensions between sex and faith and is all set in the living room of a religious household belonging to three elderly siblings Teresa Helene and their brother James a Catholic priest When their orphaned niece Rose comes to live with them she brings with her an atmosphere of abandon as it s revealed she is having a desperate affair with a married man Pressured by all sides to give him up Rose passes from innocence to despair as the house is plunged into spiritual despair The Complaisant Lover 1959 COMEDY 5m 3f A light hearted comedic play about love relationships which centres primarily on the illicit affair between Mary Rhodes and Clive Root the bookseller friend of her husband Victor Rhodes After discovering his wife is having an affair Victor quietly decides that he must accept the situation and thus becomes the complaisant lover of the title The Return of A J Raffles 1975 COMEDY PERIOD 8m 2f Greene s Edwardian comedy is based loosely on the characters from E W Hornung s The Amateur Cracksman a collection of short stories which revolve 15

around the gentleman thief A J Raffles Set in the late summer of 1900 Raffles presumed dead in the Boer War plots to rob the Marquess of Queensberry as revenge against the latter s treatment of his friend Oscar Wilde He ropes in two friends Bunny and Lord Alfred Douglas to help him with his mission However everything goes up in smoke when Raffles and Bunny s robbery is interrupted by the Prince of Wales and Inspector Mackenzie who also discover that the Prince s personal letters have been stolen The Potting Shed 1957 DRAMA MYSTERY THRILLER 6m 5f Now a middle aged man James Callifer returns to his family home where his estranged father is dying His return only fuels his desire to uncover a long held personal mystery of what happened to him in his family s potting shed when he was a boy His attempts to unlock memories of this event are blocked in turn by each of his family members With the aid of a psychoanalyst James eventually discovers the truth behind that fateful day and how it led to rejected by his father and his alienation from the world ADAPTATIONS Our Man in Havana 2007 COMEDY PERIOD ADAPTATION 3m 1f playing a variety of roles adapted by Clive Francis Jim Wormold an under employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter s increasingly extravagant lifestyle So when the British Secret Service offers him the chance to become their man in Havana he cannot afford to say no There s just one hitch he does not know anything worth knowing To avoid suspicion he begins to recruit non existent subagents and concocts a series of intricate fictions But Wormold soon discovers that his stories are closer to the truth than he could have ever imagined The End of the Affair 1997 DRAMA ADAPTATION 8m 1f can be played with cast of 7 adapted for the stage by Caroline Butler Rupert Goold It is 1946 Civil servant Henry Miles suspects that his wife Sarah is having an affair and he asks his writer friend Maurice Bendrix to contact a private investigator on his behalf However Maurice is harbouring a secret he too was once Sarah s lover and is equally keen to find out whether she was unfaithful to him too The Ministry of Fear DRAMA THRILLER WAR ADAPTATION 3m 3f plus 14 supporting characters adapted by Daniel Jamieson Blitz London Just released from a psychiatric prison Arthur Rowe attends a charity f te where he stumbles into the tent of a fortune teller She gives him the answer to the guess the weight of the cake competition enabling him to win but this seemingly innocuous event trips Rowe into a hell of corruption and betrayal This is an espionage thriller and an unnerving portrait of a man whose mind is in free fall 16

Travels with my Aunt 1989 DRAMA PERIOD ADAPTATION 13m 9f can be played by a much smaller cast with doubling adapted by Giles Havergal Henry Pulling a recently retired bank manager forms a bond with his eccentric Aunt Augusta whom he meets for the first time at his mother s funeral The odd couple subsequently decide to embark on a journey way across Europe and eventually even further afield Aunt Augusta pulls Henry away from his quiet suburban existence into a world of adventure crime and the highly unconventional lifestyle The Power and the Glory DRAMA ADAPTATION 28m 9f doubling adapted by Denis Dannan Pierre Bost In the revolutionary days of Mexico a priest decides to stay with his people in disguise rather than escape It is little consolation however For wherever the priest goes with the Mass and the Sacraments the police are sure to follow executing those who harboured him Though he is a humanly weak priest with a past of many sins he has moments of strength He steals a bottle of wine from a drunken official and ends in prison Released he travels to another province where he is given food and clothes and the people make religious processions At ease again he slips back into his old pleasures At the moment of his escape however he chooses to go instead to a dying man Here he is ambushed and executed NOVELS A Burnt Out Case World famous architect Querry finds himself bored of his vacuous celebrity lifestyle and sets sail on a voyage to the Congo He arrives anonymously at a leper colony where he is diagnosed as a burnt out case Working ceaselessly in the colony Querry starts to feel his mind clear of its fog However when he strikes up a meaningful friendship with the wife of a palm oil plantation owner his integrity is called into question by the colony Brighton Rock Co represented by StudioCanal Previously adapted as a musical by Giles Havergal Don Black John Barry and also as a play by David Horlock Matt Devereaux and Bryony Lavery Charles Fred Hale comes to Brighton on an assignment to distribute cards anonymously for a newspaper competition Hale had previously betrayed the former leader of a gang now run by teenage sociopath Pinkie Brown After being threatened by Pinkie Hale is taken in by Ida Arnold But he cannot escape the clutches of Pinkie for long and is eventually murdered by him Pinkie s subsequent attempts to cover his tracks and remove evidence only lead to a chain of fresh crimes His guilt is compounded by his disastrous marriage to a young waitress called Rose who can destroy his alibi for the evening in question Driven by justice Ida decides to pursue Pinkie at all costs warning Rose of the man she has married 17

Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party Doctor Fischer despises the human race and Alfred Jones a translator for a large chocolate company in Switzerland has just married his estranged daughter The notorious toothpaste millionaire as he is known invites Jones to one of his famous parties where he feeds his guests porridge and reads from his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations The parties are a chance for Fischer an opportunity to humiliate the rich sycophants in his clique It s a Battlefield Drover a Communist bus driver is in prison appealing his death sentence for killing a policeman during a riot in London as an act of self defence for his wife whom he believed was in grave danger from this policeman The Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is summoned to a meeting with the assistant to the Home Secretary to decide whether or not to reprieve Drover s sentence However neither are quite sure if they should Meanwhile Drover s wife Milly visits the policeman s widow and finds comfort in the arms of her husband s brother Conrad Loser Takes All Bertram plans to get married to Cary in a quiet unassuming wedding However when his boss Dreuther switches the wedding and honeymoon to the rather more exciting Monte Carlo Bertram becomes sucked into the casino lifestyle in order to pay for the luxurious holiday in which they have found themselves At first he loses but after a while he begins to win big money His luck attracts the attention of businessman Bowles who happens to be in direct competition with Dreuther Cary soon loses interest in her newly avaricious husband Bertram becomes hell bent on revenge against his boss The Captain and His Enemy Victor Baxter is taken away from his boarding school by a mysterious stranger who takes him to London The stranger is simply known as The Captain and lives with a woman called Liza Whilst there Victor strikes up a maternal relationship with Liza who renames him Jim and depends on him for news of the world outside their door Raised in these odd circumstances Jim is never sure of the Captain s relationship with Liza and it is not until he reaches manhood that he can confront the Captain and learns the shocking truth about this man his allegiances and the nature of love The Comedians Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti a world in the grip of the corrupt Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute his sinister secret police Brown the hotelier Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man these are the comedians of Graham Greene s title Hiding behind their actors masks they hesitate on the edge of life And to begin with they are men afraid of love afraid of pain afraid of fear itself The Confidential Agent Former university professor D is sent by his government on a secret mission to England to buy coal He leaves behind terrible memories in his home country 18

ravaged by a civil war which claimed the life of his wife What turns out to be a simple mission to a country of which he has very fond memories turns into a nightmare for D Implicated in murder accused of possessing false documents theft and held responsible for the death of a young woman D becomes a hunted man tormented by political allegiances and doubt over his identity The Destructors Short Story Set in the mid 1950s the story is about the Wormsley Common Gang a boys gang named after the place where they live The protagonist Trevor or T devises a plan to destroy a beautiful two hundred year old house that survived The Blitz The gang accepts the plan by T their new leader and executes it when the owner of the house Mr Thomas whom the gang call Old Misery is away during a bank holiday weekend Their plan is to destroy the house from inside then tear down the remaining outer structure The Honorary Consul Doctor Eduardo Plarr moves to Corrientes in Argentina after he escaped the political turmoil of Buenos Aires as a child leaving behind his father a political revolutionary from whom he has not since heard One day two of Plarr s friends from his Jesuit schooldays turn up at his surgery to tell him his father is alive and imprisoned in Paraguay They hatch a plot to kidnap the US Ambassador on his trip to Corrientes in order to ransom him for the release of political prisoners in Paraguay but kidnap the wrong man taking the British Honorary Consul Charles Fortnum instead The Lieutenant Died Last Went the Day Well Co represented with StudioCanal A short story which was subsequently adapted into a film in 1942 Set in 1940 the story concerns a group of German parachutists who have taken over an English village The villagers decide they must take action against the enemies on home turf The Man Within Francis Andrews flees a smuggling boat whom he has betrayed by informing customs officers on its embarkation In his flight he stumbles across an isolated cottage where he finds the enigmatic Elizabeth He strikes up a relationship with her which is scuppered by the arrival of Carlyon head of the smugglers Elizabeth persuades Andrews to testify against Carlyon and his crew a decision which leads to the smugglers promising to exact revenge for Andrews betrayal The Power and the Glory In a poor remote area of Mexico a paramilitary group the Red Shirts rule with an iron fist Catholicism has been outlawed and priests are being hunted down and killed An unnamed so called whiskey priest is on the move trying to minister as best as he can However he is haunted by his past demons and is inability to feel true repentance for his actions His flight is taunted by his opposite number Padre Jos a priest who has been forced to renounce his faith and marry a woman 19

The Tenth Man Previously adapted by Kate Brooke in 1994 A novella originally written as a screenplay before being eventually published in 1985 Occupied France during WWII one in ten prisoners is to be executed Lots are drawn to decide who will die Chavel is chosen but having accrued significant wealth as a lawyer offers his estate to whomever will take his place A young man Janvier puts himself forward Fastforward and with the war over Chavel returns to his homestead to find it occupied by Janvier s mother and sister Th r se Assuming the fake name of Charlot he becomes their servant Their stability is violently interrupted when an imposter arrives claiming to be Chavel in order to stake some kind of claim on the property by winning Th r se s hand in marriage Charlot who has fallen in love Th r se himself and armed with the truth sets out to reveal all to her as an act of redemption for his prior cowardice Stamboul Train Orient Express As the Orient Express makes its way from Ostend to Constantinople the lives of its many passengers are bound together in a series of interlocking events The characters include Coral Musker a chorus girl Carleton Myatt a rich business Richard John a doctor journalist Mabel Warren and Josef Grunlich a murderous burglar They all find themselves caught up in each other s fates and bound in a web of espionage murder and lies 20

CECIL P TAYLOR LIST OF WORKS PLAYS You Are My Heart s Delight 1973 DRAMA SHORT 1m 1f A short play A moorland Estate in Scotland is being modernised souring life for the gamekeeper David and his sister Janet That is until they discover a very simple way of turning back the clock The Black and White Minstrels 1972 COMEDY SATIRE 3f 2m Cyril is a self centred and neurotic writer who is obsessed with his own perceived failure He is trapped in a disorganised m nage with two women Gil and Pat along with his friend Harry Their eccentric equilibrium is interrupted by the arrival of a new lodger Atara who rents the spare room Cyril becomes obsessed with her in a love hate attraction The Magic Island 1979 CHILDREN FOLK FAIRYTALE 3m 2f A play for children Taking the form of a fairy tale the story concerns a young girl called Anne whose imagination is awakened by an evil force the Tidy Man whose mission is to tidy up all the untidy aspects of human behaviour and a good force the Gateshead Goblin who resists any such unnecessary airbrushing of human life Walter 1975 DRAMA 5m 2f Based loosely on the life of comic Walter Jackson We meet Walter in old age dying of heart disease He begins to look back on incidents in days gone by that express his complex emotional relationships his Judaism which continues to exert a pull on him despite his secularism and the left wing radicalism of his youth which has gone stale in his later years To be a Farmer s Boy 1980 DRAMA ROMANCE 3m 3f 1f m Three generations of the Ashburton family have lived on their farm in Dartmoor The play opens with the auction of the farm and flashes back to show the history of the land and its ownership as well as the lives and loves of the Ashburton family Schippel 1974 COMEDY FARCE ADAPTATION 5m 2f plus extras An adaptation of the German comedy B rger Schippel by Carl Sternheim Schippel is a lowly member of society who is suddenly summoned by three parts of a male voice quartet whose fourth member has unexpectedly drop dead They are 21

determined to keep their prize for the best quartet in the district awarded always by the Prince and have landed on Schippel as the only viable replacement And a Nightingale Sang 1979 COMEDY DRAMA WAR 4m 3f Following the course of WWII as seen through the eyes of a working class Newcastle family each scene begins with a separate member of the family addressing the audience or singing a song from the period Grandpa Andie is recruiting mourners to attend the burial of his dog devout Catholic Mam is fretting about the health of the local priest patriarch George is serenading the audience with popular songs from the period youngest sister Joyce is dithering over whether to accept a marriage proposal from soldier Eric and Helen the beating heart of the piece is depended on for guidance by the whole family but who is secretly yearning for her own romantic adventure That adventure comes in the shape of Norman who shows her that she can waltz despite her limp and fall in love The Rainbow Coloured Disco Dancer 1980 DRAMA 5m 3f doubling possible Carol is a young child of mixed race with white parents She is confronted by casual and aggressive racism everywhere she goes and is desperate to confront such prejudice especially that perpetrated by a pair of boys known as the Skins When she discovers the local children s disco with its multi coloured lights and excitement she might just have found a method of survival Operation Elvis 1978 CHILDREN DRAMA 4m 4f doubling possible Ten year old school Malcolm is convinced that he s the reincarnation of Elvis Presley His mother her boyfriend and his schoolteacher are becoming increasingly concerned with his odd behaviour and only Jackie a local pigeon fancier seems to sympathise Facing pressure from everyone around him Malcolm decides to run away to Memphis Tennessee but ends up in Morpeth Northumberland instead There he meets Michael a boy with severe brain damage who is cared for by Lynn Despite their differences these two boys strike up a real friendship The Ballachulish Beat 1992 COMEDY SATIRE 8m 1f plus extras A play with songs charting the discovery hype exploitation and ultimate downfall of a Scottish rock group The Keelies They are managed by a Glaswegian Communist and ex convict Andy who is tossed aside by uber Capitalist Ron who signs up the bands without realising they already have representation leading to an almighty clash of principles Bring Me Sunshine Bring Me Smiles 1980 DRAMA 5f 7m Unemployed shipbuilder Ted finds himself running an unofficial Citizens Advice Bureau when his friends and family alike descend upon his homes with a myriad of problems they are very keen to discuss Teddy s notion of bliss and hot cocoa as a 22

method for patching bruised relationships proves too insufficient as complications explode and people expose the worse sides of themselves Good 1981 DRAMA WAR 8m 5f John Halder is a liberal minded professor of literature He has a wife and three children and cares for his senile mother He inadvertently becomes a potential ally for the Nazi Party when he writes a book discussing euthanasia for elderly people suffering from dementia and extreme senility His fondness for German literature only makes him more attractive for the Nazis By rationalised steps he is absorbed into their ideology The play is told through a stream of consciousness punctured by the musical melody that repeats itself endlessly inside Halder s head Gynt 1973 DRAMA 9m 5f plus ensemble A radical reworking of Ibsen s classic play Peer Gynt Bandits 1976 DRAMA CRIME 15m 12f doubling possible Loosely based on one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the sixties Bandits focuses on the world of a group of racketeers and the amoral policeman who chases them following the actions of the world weary Superintendent Bridges as he tries to tie together the threads of Hynes murder determined to get a conviction at any cost Peter Pan Man 1977 SATIRE 16m 7f plus ensemble A satirical re working of JM Barrie s classic tale featuring JM Barrie and his family 23

EDUARDO DE FILIPPO LIST OF WORKS PLAYS Christmas in Naples 1931 DRAMA 6m 3f 1m f It s Christmas time at the Cupiello household in Naples but only patriarch Luca seems to be getting into the spirit He has painstakingly and lovingly built a special Nativity scene for his family to enjoy but none of them seems to be interested in indulging him His son Tommasino is a petty thief his daughter Ninuccia cheating on her husband and his wife Concetta is trying to hold everything together amongst the family s constant in fighting Non Ti Pago 1940 COMEDY 7m 5f doubling possible Ferdinando the lottery shop owner who gambles away his profit is furious when his clerk Bertolini the suitor of his daughter Stella wins four million lira after dreaming Ferdinando s dead father telling him the winning lottery numbers Ferdinando seizes the winning ticket and refuses to recognise Bertolini as the legitimate owner When his plan to trick Bertolini in to signing over the money fails Ferdinando hands over the money and curses him leading their family into an absurdly comic dispute between the law and religion Those Damned Ghosts 1946 COMEDY 8m 4f Impoverished Pasquale moves into a dilapidated mansion that has a local history of being taunted by a variety of ghosts However Pasquale doesn t believe any of the myths and hopes to turn the place into a profit making hotel for him and his wife Maria However he soon starts to financially over reach himself with various repairs much to the chagrin of his put upon wife and before long he too starts to feel the cold touch of phantom presences Filumena Marturano 1946 COMEDY 8m 5f doubling possible Filumena Marturano found in the brothels of Naples by the domineering Domenico Soriano with whom she has enjoyed an on off relationship for 25 years lies on her deathbed hoping to marry her love before she dies However after the ceremony is over Filumena reveals that she feigned illness in order to formally establish herself as Soriano s wife much to Domenico s despair More surprises are in store however when Filumena reveals that she has three sons unwittingly provided for using Domenico s money and that they are in need of a father figure 24

Inner Voices 1948 DRAMA 9m 5f Set in the aftermath of the Second World War Alberto s life is turned upside down when he accuses the family next door of murder and soon thereafter realises that he only dreamt the grisly scenario and that no such murder ever took place However much to his dismay his simple mistake triggers a chain of unstoppable events which leads to chaos within the neighbourhood Each family member turns on each in turn accusing them of the alleged murder as suspicion and paranoia infects the lives of everyone involved Saturday Sunday Monday 1959 DRAMA COMEDY 11m 6f Don Peppino suspects his wife Rosa of cheating with an old friend and she in turn is annoyed by his lack of interest in her cooking and preference for the food prepared by his daughter in law Their long term marriage has been worn down by an emotional war of attrition Set over one tempestuous weekend tensions between the pair come to a devastating head during the traditional Sunday dinner in the presence of their family and friends Add to the mix a strong willed daughter being pulled in different directions by her family an outspoken Auntie and the maid s potentially dangerous brother knocking about will everyone survive until Monday with their relationships intact Grand Magic 1948 DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 11m 9f doubling possible Magician Otto Marvuglia helps Marta escape the clutches of her overprotective and stifling marriage to the mean spirited Calogero During a trick in front of guests at the hotel where the couple are staying Otto manages to disappear Marta into the hands of her lover Mariano leaving Calogero utterly confused as to the whereabouts of his wife Otto tries to keep the trick going by consequently convincing Calogero s of the world s permanent illusory nature in order to hide from him the painful truth However the deception leads to the total unravelling of Calogero s mind much to the chagrin of his family The Local Authority 1960 DRAMA CRIME 14m 6f doubling possible In a small town in Naples Italy justice rests with one man the formidable and fearsome Antonio Barracano Don over all he surveys he is a respected Mafioso who doles out punishments and favours as and when he pleases in order to keep control and order over the town However when he butts heads with local businessman Arturo Santaniello after he intervenes to keep the peace between him and his estranged son Rafiluccio Antonio becomes drawn into a blood feud which threatens to erupt and destroy the town Naples Gets Rich 1945 DRAMA CRIME WAR 14m 7f doubling possible It s the middle of the Second World War and the Jovine family is struggling to survive the chronic food shortages and incessant bombing Matriarch Amalia has resorted 25

to selling supplies on the black market despite strong disapproval from her husband Gennaro The family s descent into petty criminality becomes much steeper after Gennaro goes missing presumed dead in an air raid However the family s rise in fortune is thrown into sharp focus when he returns traumatised from time spent in a POW camp 26

PATRICK HAMILTON LIST OF WORKS PLAYS Gaslight 1938 DRAMA MYSTERY THRILLER 3f 2m First performed at Richmond Theatre 1939 As the gas light in her home flickers and dims Bella Manningham is convinced that she is losing her mind With her husband mostly absent both physically and emotionally his abusive behaviour towards her is further setting her nerves on edge However help is at hand in the shape of Detective Rough who has his own suspicions about the enigmatic Jack Manningham The Man Upstairs 1953 DRAMA MYSTERY THRILLER 4m 3f George Longford a quiet modest yet dignified man lodging in the Mayfair flat of a close friend finds his private space invaded by The Armstrong family a gang of confidence tricksters plotting to relieve him of his money to help their frind Cyrus flee to Australia Unknown to them George has a radio in the flat connecting him with his friend Charles who arranges to have the gang arrested Before they can escape the flat the gang are subjected to an extended ritual of revenge Rope 1929 DRAMA THRILLER 6m 2f First produced by Repertory Players at the Strand Theatre London 1929 Brandon and Granillo are two young brash university students who have just murdered one of their compatriots Ronald Kentley as a supposed expression of their intellectual superiority They quickly stuff his cadaver into a huge chest and proceed to host a party for his friends and family and use the chest as a buffet for their guests However their arrogance soon runs dry when they discover that one of their guests Rupert Cadell may just well have their number The Duke in Darkness 1942 DRAMA PSYCHOLOGICAL PERIOD 16TH CENTURY 10m First performed at the Lyceum Theatre 1942 Set in the 16th century during the French Civil War the Duke of Laterraine has been imprisoned in a castle for fifteen years by his enemy He has been loyally aided by his longstanding servant Gribaud As part of a long term escape plan the Duke has been feigning blindness but everything is thrown into jeopardy with the onset of Gribaud s madness as the Duke struggles to distinguish between those he can trust and those he can t 27

The Slaves of Solitude 2017 DRAMA ADAPTATION WAR ROMANCE Adapted by Nicholas Wright 1943 Henley on Thames Miss Roach is forced by the war to flee London for the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house a place as grey and lonely as its residents From the safety of these new quarters her war effort now consists of a thousand petty humiliations of which the most burdensome is sharing her daily life with the unbearable Mr Thwaites But a breath of fresh air arrives in the form of a handsome American lieutenant and things start to look distinctly brighter Until a new boarder moves into the room next to Miss Roach who soon starts upsetting the precarious balance in the house NOVELS Craven House 1926 Black Spring A light hearted satire set in an English boarding house Hangover Square 1941 Penguin Modern Classics Hamilton s most celebrated and widely read novel is a jet black comedy set against the backdrop of Britain s declaration of war on Germany George Harvey Bone a lonely alcoholic becomes obsessed with gaining the affections of failed actress Netta The only time he feels truly free from the chains of his existence is during long blackouts that seem to induce in Bone a completely different personality but also one which quickly turns murderous in the face of rejection Impromptu in Moribundia 1939 Faber Faber Published at the outbreak of WWII this book is an anomaly within Hamilton s oeuvre A satire on social complacency which apes the style of Wells and Huxley the story charts a young man s descent into the fictional Moribundia where the dull affairs of England are transformed into a supposed bourgeois idyll Monday Morning 1925 Faber Faber Published days after his 21st birthday the novel follows a writer s attempts to get down to work on a fated Monday morning The Midnight Bell 1929 Vintage Classics Random House Set in the Midnight Bell pub on the Euston Road The Midnight Bell forms the first part of the trilogy later published as Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Barman Bob is in love with Jenny a West End prostitute However fellow bar worker Ella is secretly in love with Bob 28

The Plains of Cement 1934 Vintage Classics Random House The third part of the trilogy focuses on Ella and takes place in the same time period as The Midnight Bell Still nursing affection for Bob Ella has to ward off the unwanted advances of elderly customer Ernest Eccles The Siege of Pleasure 1932 Vintage Classics Random House This relates the early life of Jenny as a domestic servant and her descent into prostitution The Slaves of Solitude 1947 Constable and Robinson Set in the fictional town of Thames Lockden the plot follows the experiences of Miss Roach who has escaped Blitz hit London to lead a safer but dull life running a boarding house in the suburbs There she must endure the mockery of difficult guest Mr Thwaites but manages to find a ray of sunlight in her growing affections for an American serviceman However their liaison is interrupted by the arrival of Miss Roach s German friend Vicki Kugelman with whom she soon finds herself locked in bitter competition The West Pier 1952 Black Spring Press The first book in the Gorse Trilogy which follows the exploitations of conman and antihero Ernest Ralph Gorse In this first instalment set in Brighton in the 20s Gorse attempts to swindle a young working class woman out of her life savings Graham Greene declared it to be the best book written about Brighton Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse 1953 Black Spring Press The second book in the Gorse Trilogy which follows the exploitations of conman and anti hero Ernest Ralph Gorse After attempting to swindle a young woman out of her savings Gorse graduates onto more difficult material by attempting to practise a sophisticated fraud on a wealthy colonel s widow Unknown Assailant 1955 Black Spring Press The final book in the Gorse Trilogy which follows the exploitations of conman and anti hero Ernest Ralph Gorse This final part of the trilogy sees Gorse attempts to bamboozle a dreamy barmaid Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky 1935 trilogy of the three previous Vintage Classics Random House A trilogy of semi autobiographical novels which focus on three protagonists who populate The Midnight Bell pub in London The books are notable for their authentic portrayal of working class London life in the inter war period 29

Twopence Coloured 1928 Faber Faber 19 year old Jackie Mortimer leaves his hometown of Hove in search of a life on the London stage only to become entangled with provincial theatrical life and the object of affection for two brothers Richard and Charles Gissing RADIO PLAYS Money with Menaces first broadcast in 1937 A Fleet Street tycoon finds himself under telephone threat of blackmail To the Public Danger 1939 After leaving her dull boyfriend for a rebellious bounder the play follows a fickle woman who goes for a drunken drive down country lanes An examination of the pitfalls of driving under the influence 30

EMLYN WILLIAMS LIST OF WORKS PLAYS A Murder Has Been Arranged 1930 DRAMA MYSTERY THRILLER 5f 4m Murder mystery ghost story In this spooky thriller Sir Charles Jasper is due to inherit an enormous fortune on his fortieth birthday He plans to celebrate the occasion with a party on the stage of the St James Theatre supposedly haunted by the ghosts of those who mysteriously died several years previously The party is interrupted by Maurice Sir Charles hitherto missing nephew and the recipient of his legacy in the event of his death Maurice tricks his uncle into writing a suicide note which Sir Charles believes is actually a chapter for his book before finishing him off with a poisoned drink After the deed is done however Sir Charles birthday guests begin to suspect Maurice and they employ a variety of ingenious and subtle tactics in order to force him to confess Night Must Fall 1935 DRAMA MYSTERY THRILLER PERIOD 5f 4m Psychological thriller The curmudgeonly Mrs Bramson resides in a remote part of Essex with only her quiet intelligent niece Olivia to keep her company When one of her young female employees Dora falls pregnant out of wedlock Bramson decides she must persuade the father of the unborn child into marriage The father turns out to the charming yet dangerous Dan who comes to the house having already committed one murder and with his eyes firmly set on another in the shape of the elderly Bramson However Olivia quickly has the true measure of him and must engage in a battle of wills and wits in order to expose the truth However her endeavour is compromised by her sexual attraction to the charismatic young man The Corn is Green 1938 DRAMA 10m 5f Drama Englishwoman Miss Moffatt settles in a remote Welsh mining village where she starts a school for the local boys most of whom are underprivileged She takes a particular interest in one boy Morgan Evans who shows great academic promise Moffatt is determined to do all in her power to help his application for a scholarship to attend Oxford University but Morgan bucks against her advice and falls prey to the charms of local girl Bessie The Light of Heart 1940 DRAMA 4m 4f Drama Ageing Shakespearean actor Maddoc once a giant of the stage has fallen on hard times due to his excessive drinking He lives in a run down room at the top of a dilapidated house in 1930s Covent Garden with his daughter Cattrin born with a lame foot but who nevertheless tends to his every physical and emotional need Her routine is broken by the arrival of young musician Robert with whom she falls in love after he moves in to the neighbourhood She soon finds herself caught terribly 31

between the incessant needs of her father and her new found freedom with Robert who she plans to marry Things are complicated by the arrival of Mrs Lothian a diehard fan of Maddoc s with important connections who has persuaded a major theatre producer to produce King Lear with him in the title role However as ever with the belligerent and drunken Maddoc getting him on rehearsed and on stage is going to be an uphill struggle which requires the collusion of everyone around him The Wind of Heaven 1945 DRAMA PERIOD 19TH CENTURY 4m 4f Drama Set in the 1850s the story centres on inconsolable Crimean War widow Dilys Parry living an isolated life in Blestin a small Welsh village which lives in a state of godless terror since a mysterious disaster snatched away all its youth When a young boy arrives in the village the illegitimate son of a servant girl he nevertheless begins to have an immediate spiritual impact upon Dilys and the other villagers Accolade 1951 DRAMA PERIOD 6m 3f London 1950 Acclaimed author and public figure Will Trenting is on the verge of receiving a knighthood The unexpected honour attracts the glare of the voracious press who fight to expose his private promiscuity including sex parties in London brothels at which were present underage girls Though the press are out to destroy him his wife decides to stand by him having known about and lived with his proclivities for many years But with society bent on destroying him Trenting finds his happy family life particularly his loving relationship with his teenage son struggling for survival Someone Waiting 1954 MYSTERY THRILLER PERIOD 5f 4m Murder thriller Based on a true story Tutor Walter Fenn has been summoned back to England from Australia following his son Paul s shock conviction for murdering a young Swedish woman during a Christmas party Fenn is absolutely certain his son is innocent and therefore wheedles his way into a position tutoring law student Martin Nedlow son of wealthy entrepreneurs John and Vera Nedlow whose flat was the location for the murder The Nedlows are mortified by their son s association with a supposed killer and subsequently their relationship with their son is extremely strained As Fenn begins his lessons with Martin and learns more about the young woman brutally murdered and about his father s character he begins to suspect that John Nedlow is in fact the real murderer and hatches a plan to expose him 32

JOHN HOPKINS LIST OF WORKS PLAYS Talking to a Stranger 2m 2f DRAMA CONTEMPORARY The four episodes are individually subtitled Anytime You re Ready I ll Sparkle No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required Gladly My Cross Eyed Bear and The Innocent Must Suffer They are respectively the stories of the daughter Terry the father Ted the son Alan and the mother Sarah Her viewpoint is recounted after her suicide Find Your Way Home 1974 DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 3m 1f 1970s England Julian has decided to drown his sorrows by becoming a sex worker after his married lover has left him On this particularly tense evening he has brought home with him the dangerous and enigmatic David However their uneasy alliance is interrupted when Julian s ex lover Alan arrives having left his wife But little do either of them know that Alan s wife Jacqueline has followed swiftly after her and is looking for answers What follows is an intense brutal and compelling examination of sexuality marriage and love Fable 1965 DRAMA CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL 3m 2f The play contrasts the experiences of an oppressed white couple Joan and Len with the middle class black liberal writer Mark Fellowes living under house arrest with his attentive wife Francesca Although Fellowes initially appears a figure of hope his revolutionary talk is finally exposed as empty and futile While Fellowes believes Francesca is taking his radical tracts to be published she is actually destroying them But when he finally learns of Francesca s betrayal Mark s response is merely to continue as if nothing has changed colluding with his wife in maintaining the illusion that he is taking genuine action As a comment on the ultimately ineffectual nature of white liberal opposition in South Africa or elsewhere this is an extremely challenging and radical position This Story of Yours 2010 DRAMA THRILLER PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTEMPORARY 4m 1f Years of witnessing the worst human beings have to offer seem to have taken their toll on police detective Johnson He returns home to his wife Maureen drunk and emotional unstable following another harrowing night at work His frustration is unleashed against his unsuspecting wife He s convinced he s caught the man responsible for a series of horrific attacks on young girls However in the course of his interrogation of his suspect dark emotions float to the surface for both men as they engage in a violent power play game with terrible consequences 33

Absent Forever DRAMA PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL 2m 2f and 1f m Rosemary s political activist daughter Kate has gone missing after a student demonstration has turned violent As she begins her search to find out the truth behind what happens she bumps head with Inspector Rankin a man seemingly determined to keep all his cards about the protest very close to his chest As Rosemary slowly begins to piece together events she uncovers a dark side to her daughter s personal life which threatens to overwhelm her entirely Economic Necessity 1973 DRAMA 6m 3f An engaging family drama Denis has decided to renounce his obligations to his family in spite of the increasingly angry reproaches from his friends and family Each of them in turn attempts to show him the importance of his familial responsibilities and the impossibility of carrying on with this way of life but the patience begins to wear thin on both sides until Denis is reduced to an incoherent wreck adrift in his own home A Night in September 1940 DRAMA WAR PERIOD 5m 4f 1 male child Set during the Blitz one family attempt to survive amidst an outburst of shelling above their heads Forty years later and the survivors Andy and his sister Sylvia are now grown up and attempting to get on with their lives However the inescapable anxiety of life in a city under attack is still reverberating dreadfully in their lives The consequences of time have only deepened the trauma of a childhood fought in the so called civilian trenches Losing Time DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 3m 2f Ruth has been abandoned by her husband and has taken to walking the streets of New York City alone at night One particular evening she is sexually assaulted and drags herself to the apartment of her friend Joanne who is horrified to learn of the night s events Together they decide to wreak revenge on two unsuspecting males who they invite to dinner but things do not go according to plan Next of Kin DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 4m 4f plus children 1970 The Lloyd family gathers together for Sunday tea Amidst their small talk the family is shocked to discover that patriarch Brian has simply disappeared leaving the guests he welcome completely in the lurch His wife Susan attempts to uncover the reasoning behind this strange behaviour His children watch silently from the corners of the different rooms resentments slowly begin to gather As the family realises Brian is not coming back they have to learn to accept and deal with their new reality 34

Crying in the Night DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 3m 2f A son visits his father in hospital after he has been severely injured in a traffic accident Their strained relationship shows when the son immediately begins challenging his father to take responsibility for his own life after it emerges that the accident may have been self inflicted The perspective then shifts to the mother in the family who has set up a new life with a much younger man her daughter calls on her and also chastises her for her behaviour In a role reversal the children are holding their parents to account as they collectively bemoan their parents inability to communicate truthfully with them Family Matters COMEDY DRAMA 8m 3f Set in a small town in America this is a sort of comedy of manners A young man returns home after an extended stay in New York City where he has acquired some gay friends He has brought his new friends to stay with him in his hometown but encounters a life quite different to the one he left His father has left his mother and set up house with a much younger woman and his mother is having an affair of her own with the local doctor 35

JULIAN SLADE LIST OF WORKS MUSICALS Now We Are Sixty 1982 MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY DRAMA CHILDREN 4m 2f Written by Gyles Brandreth based on the life and work of A A Milne music co written with H Fraser Simson A play with music Now We Are Sixty is an account of the life of writer A A Milne as he discusses his life and career with a young undergraduate who has come to interview him Milne discusses his most famous creation Winnie the Pooh and how those books have overshadowed everything else he has done It also reveals tense relationships with his father and son Christopher Robin Wildest Dreams 1961 MUSICAL ROMANCE 4m 4f plus extras doubling possible Co written with Dorothy Reynolds Set in the fictional town of Nelderham located in Gloucestershire the story centres on Harriet and her niece Carol who in their little dreary village harbour dreams of finding a great romance Salad Days 1954 MUSICAL DRAMA PERIOD 1950 S 8m 5f doubling minimum cast 12 Co written with Dorothy Reynolds Jane and Timothy have recently graduated from university just married and contemplating how on earth they re to make a living One day they encounter a homeless man who trundles around on a mobile mini piano He offers the newlyweds the chance to look after his so called business interests for a month for a salary plus whatever else they can make Jane and Timothy soon find out that his piano is not just any old piano but instead an incitement to sing and dance to all who hear it Follow That Girl 1960 MUSICAL DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 8f 6m plus 5 smaller roles doubling possible Co written with Dorothy Reynolds Adapted from their earlier musical CHRISTMAS IN KING STREET Victoria Gilchrist s parents put forward two potential suitors for her hand in marriage a pair of boring businessman Victoria objects to marrying either and decides to run away Her parents immediately contact the police to try and find her but the policeman leading the charge ends up falling for her instead The musical has a meta theatrical framing device whereby Tom is actually the writer who conjures up the musical from his script in the first scene 36

Hooray for Daisy 1960 MUSICAL COMEDY 8m 8f doubling possible Co written with Dorothy Reynolds A fun Christmas show about an amateur dramatic society staging a pantomime The Merry Gentleman 1953 MUSICAL DRAMA CHRISTMAS PERIOD 9m 8f doubling possible Co written with Dorothy Reynolds A Christmas musical Confusion arises when Father Christmas drops in on a Christmas night party The guests soon find themselves whisked away to Christmas land on a special treasure hunt the search for true happiness The Duenna 1954 MUSICAL COMEDY DRAMA ADAPTATION 10m 6f Co written with Lionel Harris adapted from the operetta by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Adapted from the riotous comic opera by Richard Brinsley Sheridan The wealthy Don Jerome s son Ferdinand is in love with Clara but her father is hell bent on sending her to a nunnery In desperation Ferdinand bribes her maid to admit him to her bedchamber with a duplicate key but Clara refuses his advances keeping the key so she can escape herself Meanwhile Ferdinand s sister Louisa is in love with Antonio but her father wants to marry the wealthier Mendoza Free As Air 1957 MUSICAL DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 11m 10f doubling possible Co written with Dorothy Reynolds Terhou is a small Channel island and home to an incredibly small population who number no more than those found in the average operatic society Every year however they must find a May Queen for their annual festival Cue the arrival of society girl Geraldine to their shores hotly pursued by Jack Amersham a famous racing driver and gossip columnist Ivy Crush The locals at first welcome this unusual invasion but then come to fear that their idyllic existence might be interrupted forever Trelawny 1972 MUSICAL COMEDY 14m 9f plus 2f m doubling possible Co written with Aubrey Woods and George Rowell adapted from Arthur Wing Pinero s TRELAWNY OF THE WELLS Actress Rose Telawny falls in love with the grandson of snobbish knight Sir William Gower Unfortunately the visit to her partner s home is such a humiliating failure that she finds she can no longer sum up the spirit needed to play the stage melodramas for which she has become famous Luckily Rose is able to persuade Sir William of the vitality of the theatre and he agrees to invest in a new kind of realist theatre by financing a play Rose excels in her part and Sir William finally relents and agrees to Rose s marriage to his grandson 37

THORNTON WILDER LIST OF WORKS PLAYS The Skin of Our Teeth 1942 COMEDY FARCE PERIOD EXPERIMENTAL BROADWAY 4m 4f George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior New Jersey are a suburban commutertown couple who bear more than a passing resemblance to the very first husband and wife Adam and Eve Their two children well behaved Gladys and rebellious Henry along with their garrulous maid Sabina somehow manage to survive one apocalyptic disaster after another but only by the skin of their teeth The Skin of Our Teeth depicts the Everyman Family combines elements of farce burlesque and satire and won Wilder his second Pulitzer Prize in 1943 A Doll s House 1937 DRAMA ADAPTATION PERIOD BROADWAY 4m 4f 1boy 1girl An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen s most notable play about a waning marriage and the social constructs between a husband and wife Nora the wife of a banker Thorwald has a secret debt incurred with good intentions and a forged signature When her husband is promoted to bank manager the threat of blackmail threatens to destroy his career and their family life together As circumstances unravel Nora realizes the truth of her situation she accuses her husband and her father before him of having used her as a doll In one of the most famous scenes ever written for the stage Nora slams the door on her domestic life as wife and mother until she can learn to be herself The Beaux Stratagem 2006 COMEDY 8m 5f In 2004 the Estate of Thornton Wilder asked writer Ken Ludwig to complete a play that Wilder had begun in 1939 but never finished It s an adaptation of the classic Restoration comedy by George Farquhar set in 1707 which tells the story of two young men who having spent all their money by living too well roam from town to town in search of a wealthy heiress The Matchmaker 1955 COMEDY FARCE PERIOD ADAPTATION BROADWAY 8m 7f Horace Vandergelder a wealthy merchant in 19th Century New York decides to take a wife and employs a matchmaker Mrs Dolly Levi to help him Dolly subsequently becomes involved with two of Vandergelder s clerks several young women and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this romantic farce runs headlong into hilarious complications The play was adapted into multiple award winning musical Hello Dolly the film version of which starred Barbra Streisand and won three Academy Awards 38

Our Town 1938 DRAMA BROADWAY 17m 7f A timeless drama detailing life in the mythical village of Grover s Corners New Hampshire Our Town explores the relationship between neighbours George Gibbs and Emily Webb whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance However when Emily loses her life in childbirth the inevitable circle of life portrayed in each of the play s three acts become fully realised Since its premiere the play has become a canonical American text and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938 The Alcestiad 1955 DRAMA FABLE FOLKTALE 18m 4f 1 boy A daring retelling of the heroic legend of Alcestis Queen of Thessaly who gave her life for her husband Admetus beloved of Apollo and was brought back from Hell by Hercules When Alcestis returns from the dead she seeks greater understanding of life and how we lead it The Alcestiad is written in the tradition of the early Greek tragedies but is enhanced by Wilder s unique poignancy and humour ONE ACT The Long Christmas Dinner 1931 SHORT DRAMA PERIOD CONTEMPORARY 7f 5m Showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family and some of their Christmas dinners Pullman Car Hiawatha 1931 SHORT COMEDY 12m 5f Set in a Pullman car on a train travelling from New York to Chicago in December The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden 1931 SHORT DRAMA PERIOD 3m 3f A father mother and two of their three surviving children drive from Newark New Jersey to Camden Queens of France 1931 SHORT COMEDY PERIOD 19TH CENTURY 3f 1m In New Orlans in 1869 a charlatan of a lawyer preys on vulnerable women Love and How to Cure it 1931 SHORT COMEDY 2m 2f This melodramatic comedy is set in Soho London on the stage of the Trivoli Palace of Music in April of 1895 39

Such Things Happen Only in Books 1931 SHORT DRAMA THRILLER MYSTERY 3m 1f In this one act strangers are caught up in various deceptions illusions and mysteries The Ages of Man A collection of four short plays Infancy Childhood Youth and Rivers Under the Earth Infancy 1962 SHORT COMEDY 3m 2f Babies act like grown ups and grown ups act like babies in this playing about fulfilling basic human needs Childhood 1962 SHORT COMEDY 3f 2m In this provocative sometimes chilling comedy Wilder renders a child s eye view of the grown up world Youth 1962 SHORT SATIRE POLITICAL 5m 2f Wilder s satirical meditation on the excesses of America Rivers Under the Earth 1962 SHORT DRAMA 2m 2f This play is thought to represent middle age in Wilder s unfinished cycle of The Ages of Man The Seven Deadly Sins Thornton Wilder s seven one act plays depicting the Seven Deadly Sins Bernice SHORT DRAMA 2m 1f Represents Pride in Wilder s projected cycle on the Seven Deadly Sins The Wreck on the 5 25 SHORT DRAMA MYSTERY THRILLER 2m 2f Represents Sloth in Wilder s projected cycle on the Seven Deadly Sins A Ringing of Doorbells SHORT DRAMA MYSTERY THRILLER 4f Represents the sin of Envy in Wilder s projected cycle on the Seven Deadly Sins In Shakespeare and the Bible SHORT DRAMA 3f 1m Represents Wrath in Wilder s projected cycle on the Seven Deadly Sins Cement Hands SHORT COMEDY 3m 1f Represents Avarice in Wilder s projected cycle on the Seven Deadly Sins 40

Someone from Assisi SHORT COMEDY 2f 1m 1girl Wilder s play about the Deadly Sin of Lust The Drunken Sisters SHORT DRAMA FABLE FOLKTALE 3f 1m The Drunken Sisters is Wilder s satyr play that followed The Alcestiad his adaptation of the ancient Greek Alcestis story NOVELS The Cabala 1926 Wilder s debut novel tells the story of Samuele an American student who spends a year in the fabulously decadent world of post World War I Rome He experiences first hand the waning days of a secret community known as a cabala composed of decaying European royalty eccentric expatriate Americans and even a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey explores the stories of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru and the events that led up to their being on the bridge at that moment Brother Juniper a Franciscan monk is a witness to the tragedy and proceeds to enquire into the lives of the victims hoping to seek some kind of cosmic answer as to why each of them had to die The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 The Woman of Andros 1930 Inspired by Roman comedy Andria by Terence The Woman of Andros is set on a fictional obscure Greek island in the pre Christian era Chrysis a courtesan of haunting beauty and intelligence gathers with the young men of the island to ask profound moral questions of how we live love and die as well as examining themes of social class and status Heaven s My Destination 1935 Travelling textbook sales George Marvin Brush is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good and holy life A Quixotic hero his travels take him through smoking cars bawdy houses banks and campgrounds all across America from Texas to Illinois and into the soul of the country itself Ides of March 1948 The Ides of March is an epistolary novel divided into four sections set in Julius Caesar s Rome The book describes events leading up to Caesar s assassination in 44 BC and humanises the legendary and elusive personalities involved in one of the most dramatic periods of history 41

The Eighth Day 1967 Set in a mining town in Southern Illinois The Eighth Day tells the story of two families blown apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other The accused John Ashley however is rescued on the eve of his execution by a gang of mysterious masked men His flight triggers a powerful story tracing the fates of all those whose lives are forever changed by the tragedy The novel was the recipient of the 1968 National Book Award Theophilius North 1973 The last of Wilder s works published during his lifetime Theophilius North is a quasiautobiographical novel Theophilius sets out to see the world in the summer of 1926 but only gets as far as Newport Rhode Island before his car breaks down To support himself Theophilius takes odd jobs in the elegant mansions along the Ocean Drive and soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor spy confidant lover friend and enemy to their myriad of glittering inhabitants 42

BRECHT LIST OF WORKS published original score PLAYS Baal 1918 DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 12m 5f plus extras doubling possible Poet and cabaret singer Baal has become the toast of the literati He uses his exalted position to indulge in a high life of drinking and seducing He starts an illfated affair with the mistress of one of his friends Sophie who ends up pregnant by him and eventually drowned Baal takes to the streets along with his composer friend Ekart and mixes with tramps and drivers all the while continuing to sing in nightclubs On the road he drinks and fights too much but after seducing Ekart s mistress an argument erupts between the old friends and Baal kills him in a bar brawl Now hunted by the police Baal is left to wander the forests alone AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Peter Tegel Eric Bentley Christopher Logue John Willett Tom Wright Simon Stone Drums in the Night TROMMELN IN DER NACHT 1919 DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 8m 4f plus extras doubling possible Soldier Andreas Kragler returns from a prison camp to find his fianc e Anna engaged to another man the arrogant swaggering Friedrich Murk Set against the backdrop of the Spartacist uprising of 1919 Kragler quarrels with Anna s parents and an increasingly inebriated Murk at a local bar He takes to the streets filled with the chaos of revolt with Anna following in tow hoping to win him back He leads a drunken company around ending up at the office of a local newspaper The next morning him and Anna reconcile with Kragler deciding contemptuously that he will not return to the fighting AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Finegan Kruckmeyer 43

In the Jungle of Cities IM DICKICHT DER ST DTE 1921 24 DRAMA CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL 8m 3f plus extras doubling possible Chicago 1912 Timber dealer Shlink deliberately starts a kind of metaphysical fight with bookshop clerk George Garga Shlink and a cohort of his shady friends turn his lover Jane and sister Mary into prostitutes George marries Jane while his sister falls hopelessly in love with Shlink much to the family s horror In order to level the playing field Shlink hands his business over to George who promptly destroys it and denounces Shlink for the treatment of his wife and sister George manages to land Shlink in jail and arranges for his lynching at the time of his release However both men end up having to escape the lynch mob whereupon Shlink professes his admiration for George and that he was merely fighting for the sake of a fight George on the other hand was fighting to survive Brecht described this play as pure sport involving two men which engulfs them and transforms them and their economic circumstances past the point of no return The play examines fighting for fighting s sake as a kind of parable about the ongoing class struggle Brecht was seeing all around him at the time AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Gerhard Nellhaus Ronald Hayman The Lift of Edward II of England LEBEN EDUARDS DES ZWEITEN VON ENGLAND 1924 DRAMA PERIOD 16m 1f plus extras doubling possible Brecht adapted this from Christopher Marlowe s play EDWARD II On his coronation King Edward sends for his favourite servant Gaveston much to the chagrin of his peers at court the clergy and his wife Anne After Gaveston is murdered Edward is captured by Mortimer and killed His death is avenged by his young son who then has Mortimer hanged the Queen Anne sent to the tower AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Jean Benedetti Eric Bentley 44

Man is Man MANN IST MANN 1924 6 DRAMA CONTEMPORARY 8m 2f plus extras doubling possible British Colonial India Four British soldiers loot an Indian temple but one of them is left behind Terrified of their Sergeant the men force Irish docker Galy Gay to pose as the fourth soldier using threats and blackmail Simultaneously the missing soldier is mistaken for a miracle working statue in the temple Gay witnesses his own supposed execution and funeral before delivering his own funeral speech Finally he takes part in a war against Tibet and single handedly reduces a fortress thus completing his transformation into the ideal soldier The real soldier in question attempts to join his old comrades but is turned away with Gay s old identity papers AVAILABLE TRANSLATION Gerhard Nellhaus Eric Bentley Steve Gooch Bernard Pomerance Baden Teague AVAILABLE SCORES Paul Dessau Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY 1927 29 6m 2f plus extras OPERA DRAMA POLITICAL SATIRE An opera co written with Kurt Weill Widow Begbick and two fellow crooks are on the lam from the police when fearing they can go no further decide to found a city they christen Mahagonny city of gold It is to be a city open to all comers but the customers leave disappointed because it is too uneventful Lumberman Jimmy decides the only way to make the city a success is to allow everything The city soon swells with debauchery People attempt to escape but find they cannot Jimmy runs out of money and the prostitute with whom he s fallen in love refuses to help As the city burns wildly Jimmy is sentenced to death When a whole civilisation depends only on money there is nothing else to help them AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS W H Auden and Chester Kallman David Drew Michael Geliot Jeremy Sams SCORE Kurt Weill 45

The Threepenny Opera DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER 1928 6m 4f plus extras doubling possible OPERA DRAMA PERIOD POLITICAL SATIRE An opera co written with Kurt Weill Elisabeth Hauptmann London 1900 Macheath is back in town He secretly marries the daughter of his fellow crook Mr Peachum much to his and his wife s absolute disgust Peachum plans to have him arrested whereupon Macheath attempts to flee only to be tangled in the web of the city s prostitutes the leader of which is his ex lover Jenny When he is recaptured and lands in jail he recruits the help of yet another lover Lucy who helps him to escape But once again he is recaptured and sentenced to death whereupon via a deux ex machina he is reprieved in a deliberately uncanny happy ending AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Ralph Manheim John Willett Simon Stephens Frank McGuinness Robert David MacDonald usually performed with Jeremy Sams lyrics Anthony Meech Anthony Minghella SCORE Kurt Weill St Joan of the Stockyards DIE HEILIGE JOHANNA DER SCHLACHTH FE 1929 31 6m 3f plus extras doubling possible DRAMA PERIOD Chicago 1900 Tycoon Pierpont Mauler runs the meat packing stockyards After deciding that he would like to sell his shares and live a more decent life but this deal strikes panic into the hearts of the market and the workers Mauler is confronted by activist Joan Dark member of the Black Straw Hats who pleads with him to save the market and prevent mass unemployment He is moved by her plight and offers her a tour of the stockyards to show her the true wicked nature of his workers but all Joan sees is abject destitution and learns of the corruption in all large institutions even the one to which she belongs A strike is called which is cleared away swiftly by the military Joan herself collapses and on her death bed is canonised by Mauler and his friends her work among the poor Joan herself dies a cynical martyr who has denounced the class system but to no avail AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Ralph Manheim Frank Jones Charlotte AL Lloyd SCORE Paul Dessau 46

The Mother DIE MUTTER 1930 31 10m 2f plus extras doubling possible DRAMA PERIOD POLITICAL WAR Based on Maxim Gorky s 1906 novel of the same name Set during the First World War Pelagea Vlassova is drawn by her worker son Pavel into the workers revolutionary movement Though unsure at first she slowly begins to become more involved taking part in peaceful demonstrations learning to read helping striking peasants and working for an illegal press Her son is shot after attempting to escape from Siberia and Pelagea herself is beaten up for protesting against the war Ultimately she becomes a fierce insurgent and the play finishes with her carrying high the red flag in a huge anti war demonstration AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Steve Trafford Steve Gooch Ralph Manheim Mark Ravenhill Adrian Mitchell AVAILABLE SCORES Hanns Eisler Round Heads and Pointed Heads DIE RUNDK PFE UND DIE SPITZK PFE 1931 34 15m 6f plus extras doubling possible DRAMA PERIOD Based roughly on Shakespeare s Measure for Measure Set in the fictional country of Yahoo and its capital Luma where people are divided into two races the Ziks and the Zaks or round heads and pointed heads due to their physiognomy The Pointed Head minority are subject to attacks by Angelo Iberin a leading politician and prominent Round Head Iberin comes to blows with tenant farmer Callas over his involvement in the class movement known as the Sickle Callas then decides to take his landlord s place in jail after he is condemned for seducing Callas daughter in return for a reduction in his rent Iberin releases the landlord with the result that the two races end up mingling briefly but once again they are separated with the landlords feasting on one side and the condemned Sickle members waiting to be hanged on the other side AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Tom Kuhn Ralph Manheim John Willett SCORE Hanns Eisler OTHER TRANSLATIONS N Goold Verschoyle Alan Brown Kyra Dietz Keith Hack 47

Fear and Misery of the Third Reich FURCHT UND ELEND DES DRITTEN REICHES 1935 38 Ensemble DRAMA A sequences of naturalistic short sketches which are designed to be played separately or together They are bound by a common thread in that they look at life both its brutality and ingenuity under the Nazis and deal with subjects as varied as the fear of betrayal mistrust within the family unit the cowardice of the liberal professions the lack of cohesion among the oppositions the truth behind institutions such as Hitler Youth concentration camps and the imminence of war Each sketch contains a different group of characters and are intimate in scope AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Paul Kriwaczek Stephen Unwin Eric Bentley Gordon Reece AVAILABLE SCORE Hanns Eisler Life of Galileo LEBEN DES GALILEI 1937 39 12m 3f plus extras doubling possible DRAMA BIOGRAPHY Eminent Italian scientist Galileo is attempting to establish Copernicus theories using a telescope Though his evidence is widely disavowed the papal astronomer Clavius has to admit its truth However Galileo s questioning of the cosmos leads to the Holy Office denouncing him for heresy He stops his enquiries for eight years until he can no longer resist Meanwhile his subversive ideas have begun to find favour with the public Eventually he is summoned to the Vatican for interrogation by the Inquisition whereby he is pressured into surrendering by the authorities For the rest of his life he lives privately with his daughter Virginia One of his former pupils visits him and Galileo asks him to smuggle out the last remaining copy of his book containing all his scientific discoveries AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Howard Brenton Desmond Vesey Mark Ravenhill David Hare David Edgar AVAILABLE SCORES Hanns Eisler Nick Powell H l ne Montague OTHER SCORES Jonathan Dove John Grundy Chris Monks Matthew Scott 48

Mother Courage and her Children MUTTER COURAGE UND IHRE KINDER 1938 39 2m 2f plus an ensemble DRAMA PERIOD Set during the Thirty Years War of 1618 1648 between warring European states Mother Courage ekes out a living from her travelling canteen wagon As the play progresses she suffers a great many personal tragedies including the loss of all of her children to the war However Mother Courage keeps face in the midst of such suffering by focusing on keeping her business alive She embraces the matter offactness of war and is ultimately left alone with her trusty wagon still determined to get her cut AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Michael Hofmann David Hare Hanif Kureishi Anthony Meech David Edgar Dipo Agboluaje Ed Thomas Frank McGuinness Joanitta Bewulra Wandera Tony Kushner Dan Willis Joe O Byrne Paula Nazarski AVAILABLE SCORES Paul Dessau Dominic Muldowney Jonathan Dove Wesley Enoch Duke Special Cian Boylan Paul Pilot John Rogers Keith Thomas Ron McAllister OTHER TRANSLATIONS Humphrey Bower Lee Hall Robert David MacDonald Ralph Manheim Eric Bentley Victor John Peter Watson The Good Person of Szechwan DER GUTE MENSCH VON SEZUAN 1938 42 4m 4f plus ensemble doubling possible DRAMA CONTEMPORARY The Gods arrive in the city of Szechwan having travelled far and wide in search of a good person They alight on penniless prostitute Shen Teh who takes them in where others would not In reward for her hospitality they set her up in a tobacconist s shop and hope to watch her thrive However Shen Teh finds it hard to maintain her goodness within her newfound prosperity She dons a male disguise as her ruthless male cousin Shui Ta in order to take order of her affairs His identity begins to take over hers entirely thereby making it impossible for her to live a decent honest life She confesses to the Gods in a courtroom scene and they return to heaven leaving Shen Teh s problem unsolved AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett David Harrower Michael Hofmann Tanika Gupta Ben Hales AVAILABLE SCORES Paul Dessau Stephen Oliver Dominic Muldowney Malcolm Tulip Arabella Lyons David Sawer Paul Higgs 49

Tony Kushner David Allen Stephen Warbeck John Gibson songs OTHER TRANSLATIONS Ralph Manheim Eric Bentley Janet Suzman Fay Weldon Mr Puntila and His Man Matti HERR PUNTILA UND SEIN KNECHT MATTI 1940 2m 4f plus ensemble DRAMA Aristocratic landowner Puntila is a big farmer and an even bigger drinker His personality oscillates between his surly manner when sober and his more genial behaviour when drunk He hires new farmhands and invites all the village women to his daughter Eva s engagement party He then proceeds to wreck the party and after Eva reveals her love for Puntila s manservant Matti he must decide whether to marry her off to the Foreign Office official to whom she has been promised or Matti At the apex of one of his drunken outbursts Matti decides to leave his master as he cannot stand the uncertainty of their relationship AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Lee Hall Peter Arnott Peter Kriwaczek Gerhard Nellhaus Ralph Manheim Brooks Kriwaczek Lewis Michael Robinson AVAILABLE SCORES Chris Larner Paul Dessau Corin Buckeridge The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui DER AUFHALTSAME AUFSTIEG DES ARTURO UI 1941 19m 2f plus extras doubling possible DRAMA PERIOD Set in Chicago five businessmen who control the wholesale grocery trade face an economic crisis They bribe Dogsborough their mayor to grant them a loan However once the press get win of this loan ruthless gang leader Arturo Ui together with his lieutenants proceeds to establish a system of protection and sets fire to the wholesalers warehouses and the gang pin the crime on an unsuspecting member of the public The gang fall out with Dogsborough over the incident and then fall out with each other when one of them Roma questions Ui s plan to extend his operations into the neighbouring suburb of Cicero Ui has him assassinated swiftly followed by the execution of a prominent newspaperman of Cicero Soon the wholesalers of Cicero are asking Ui for his protection and the play concludes with the gang leader sketching his plans for the future 50

AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Ralph Manheim George Tabori Alistair Beaton Andy De La Tour Stephen Sharkey Ranjit Bolt Jennifer Wise AVAILABLE SCORES Ron McAllister Dominic Muldowney Bruce Norris 2017 John Willett The Visions of Simone Machard DIE GESICHTE DER SIMONE MACHARD 1942 43 10m 4f plus extras DRAMA PERIOD WAR Simone is a young woman living in France during the German invasion of 1940 and reading the story of Joan of Arc Over four dream sequences the real people in her life become the historical figures of the story she herself transforms into the heroine and her soldier brother appears to her as an angel The dreams prompt her into social action She persuades her employer to distribute food to starving refugees and to set the town s petrol resources on fire to avoid the enemy capturing them She becomes a thorn in the side of her P tain supporting employers and the Germans Subsequently she is captured and thrown in a mental institution run by nuns However her influence has already begun to spread AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Hugh and Ellen Rank Arnold Hinchcliffe Ralph Manheim SCORE Hanns Eisler 51

Schweyk in the Second World War SCHWEYK IM ZWEITEN WELTKRIEG 1941 43 10m 2f plus extras DRAMA A loose dramatic retelling of the 1923 novel The Good Soldier by Jaroslav Ha ek Set in Prague and the Russian Front the story concerns wanderer Schweyk a dogfancier as he stumbles innocently through WWII He manages to survive whilst overcoming dangerous situations at the Gestapo headquarters a military prison and is finally sent off to fight for Russia near Stalingrad Schweyk becomes lost in a snowstorm where he bumps into an equally bewildered Hitler who features in the play in short interludes expressing his concern about the attitude of the common man AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS William Rowlinson Susan Davies AVAILABLE SCORES Hanns Eisler The Caucasian Chalk Circle DER KAUKAISCHE KREIDEKREIS 1943 45 Ensemble DRAMA Two Soviet collective farms are trying to decide who should be gifted which valley They are subsequently told the story that makes up the play proper the Governor of a Georgian city is overthrown and killed in a nobles revolt His wife flees the city leaving behind her baby son Grusha a servant girl takes the baby and escapes to the mountains where she has to marry a fellow peasant in order to legitimise the child However when the revolt is over the Governor s wife sends the troops back to fetch her child The play then rewinds to the day of the revolt to trace the career of a tramp like village rogue whom rebellious soldiers appoint as judge in the city In the final act this judge tries the case of the child He settles it by using a traditional Chalk Circle test whereby the child is drawn out of the circle by maternal attraction Grusha refuses to harm the child and therefore refuses to pull him from the circle The judge decides the child must stay with Grusha because she will serve him best AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS James and Tania Stern with WH Auden Alistair Beaton John Holmstrom Frank McGuinness Shared Experience Eric Bentley Ralph Manheim Edgar Jones Charles Polaczek Shelagh Williams OTHER SCORES Hans Keller David Adelmann Jochen Eisentraut Stephen Byrne Catherine Jayes Julian Dawes AVAILABLE SCORES Paul Dessau Colin Sell Joe Griffiths Gerald McBurney Ron McAllister Peter Durrent Ikona Sekacz TR MacIomhair Stephen Warbeck Steve Kettley Neal Swettenham 52

Jason Armstrong Roddy Skeaping Leo Chadburn Chris Branch Tom Haines The Antigone of Sophocles DIE ANTIGONE DES SOPHOKLES 1947 4m 4f plus extras DRAMA CLASSICS Adapted from Friederich H lderlin s translation from the original Sophocles text Brecht largely reshaped the verse and wove his own passages in with those of H lderlin A prologue set in Berlin in 1945 shows two sisters whose brother has deserted the army and is found hanged as a result they argue over whether they should cut his body down and risk a reprisal from the SS After that the familiar story of Antigone s struggle against the might of her uncle Creon begins AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS David Constantine Robert Cannon KI Porter in storage OTHER TRANSLATIONS Marc von Henning Judith Malina The Days of the Commune DIE TAGE DER COMMUNE 1948 49 13m 4f plus extras doubling possible DRAMA POLITICAL Loosely based on Nordahl Greig s 1937 play The Defeat The story of the Paris Commune is told through a group of ordinary people gathered around a Montmartre caf in 1871 A number of figures from history also intervene in the action including Otto von Bismarck and Adolphe Thiers and delegates of the Commune The Montmartre group watch on as historical events unfold in front of them including Thiers attempt to disarm the National Guard the Commune seizing power at the H tel de Ville Bismarck s intervention in attempt to pacify the Paris revolts and the Governor of the Bank of France preserving his independence The group become drawn in and erect a barricade on which they fight and ultimately die while Thiers and his band of aristocrats watch from a safe distance AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS David Constantine Jean Benedetti in storage Ray Herman in storage OTHER TRANSLATIONS Clive Barker Arno Reinfrank AVAILABLE SCORE Hanns Eisler 53

THE TUTOR DER HOFMEISTER 1950 8m 10f plus extras DRAMA PERIOD Adapted from Jakob Lenz s 18th century play The Advantages of a Private Education L uffer is engaged as a tutor for a retired major s two children He is seduced by the young daughter of the major Gussie who falls pregnant by him forcing him to take refuge with a village schoolmaster who exploits him as a cheap assistant He once again finds himself becoming attracted to the schoolmaster s young daughter and in order to avoid a repeat of events he castrates himself He finds himself universally accepted after this act and is eventually allowed to marry the young daughter of the schoolmaster L uffer is subsequently acclaimed as the perfect teacher who shall mould the education of all of Germany s youth AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Ralph Manheim and Wolfgang Sauerlander Pip Broughton Richard Grunberger Ralph Manheim Turnadot or the Whitewashers Congress TURANDOT ODER DER KONGRESS DER WEISSW SCHER Ensemble COMEDY The Emperor of China and his brother have a monopoly on the cotton in China but are waiting for a rise in price before selling their stock The clothes makers unite protest led by revolutionary Kai Ho Ho is an ex Tui the Tuis are a group of futile thinkers whose opinions are for sale They are drafted in to invent excuses for the shortage of cotton The most successful of the Tuis will be given in marriage to the Emperor s daughter Turandot However the competitors all fail and are beheaded Gogher Gogh a would be Tui decides to burn half the imperial cotton without their consent so the rest can be sold on a rising market Ts wHIs whe Tuis flee and some of them join Gogh s rival Kai Ho Gogh then makes a putsch but Kai Ho s supporters break in thus denying him Turandot s hand in marriage AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Tom Kuhn Ed Kemp SCORE Hanns Eisler Mia Soteriou 54

EARLY ONE ACT PLAYS The Beggar or the Dead Dog DER BETTLER ODER DER TOTE HUND 1919 2m plus soldiers DRAMA COMEDY A victorious Emperor stumbles across a beggar on the road and strikes up a conversation with him Unimpressed by the Emperor s rank and hierarchy in society the beggar plays devil s advocate to all his ideas The ending reveals the beggar to be blind AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Michael Hamburger The Wedding DIE HOCHZEIT 1919 COMEDY 5m 4f A wedding party in which everything goes wrong the guests argue make love the furniture falls apart and the bride is revealed to be pregnant AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Jean Benedetti Rory Bremner OTHER TRANSLATIONS Dan Warburton with Jean Benedetti Driving Out a Devil ER TREIBT DEN TEUFEL AUS 1919 SHORT COMEDY 5m 2f plus extras A young Bavarian girl and her lover flirt by moonlight outside her house whilst her unaware parents call for her to return inside The lover continues to visit the girl at night using a ladder propped up against the house However they are driven up to the roof after the girl s father removes the ladder AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Richard Grunberger Lux In Tenebris 1919 SHORT COMEDY FARCE 3m 1f plus extras Paduk has organised an exhibition to discourage the proliferation of venereal disease However he is shown up by the proprietress of a brothel to be a hypocrite as he is in fact a former client She convinces him that her business has better prospects than his and after a guided tour he agrees and becomes her partner AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Eva Geisel and Ernest Borneman Eric Davidson in storage 55

The Baby Elephant DAS ELEFANTENKALB 1924 26 3m 1f plus extras Written to accompany Man Equals Man featuring the main character Galy Gay and some soldiers An elephant calf is accused of killing its own mother and a banana tree is determined to prove his guilt in a trial moderated by the Moon as judge AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Eric Bentley The Catch DER FANG c 1919 5m 2f When a fisherman s wife is woken by her drunk husband and his friends her resentment over their marriage explodes AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Se ora Carrar s Rifles DIE GEWEHRE DER FRAU CARRAR 1937 6m 5f Partly based on J M Synge s Riders to the Sea The Widow Carrar refuses to let her two sons join the Spanish Republican Army or let her worker brother have access to the rifles that her husband concealed in their house before his death She hopes that in neutrality she shall find respect and peace from the rebel generals But her brother claims that if she is not with them she is against them Her position is changed when her eldest son is carried in dead shot by the rebels at sea Against the backdrop of rising gunfire Carrar and her remaining son decide to take the hidden rifles and head to the front AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Wolfgang Sauerlander OTHER TRANSLATIONS Ted Braun Frank Evans Sean MacIomhair Biyi Bandele Dansen 1939 2m Dansen is a pig farmer and upstanding member of the community His fellow members of the commerce class often meet in town to discuss their business affairs His cosy arrangement is upset by the arrival of a stranger who is intent on breaking contracts and instigating a hostile takeover He forces Dansen into collaboration against his best judgement and his own interests AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Rose and Martin Kastner 56

How Much Is Your Iron WIE VIEL IST IHR EISEN 1939 4m 2f Svendson is an ironmonger who picks up a wealthy new customer with a fervent desire for iron bars His keenness is cooled when he discovers that this new customer is stockpiling weapons he sees his own orders continue to double even with the customer buying from other merchants Eventually the customer stops paying his way AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Rose and Martin Kastner OTHER TRANSLATIONS Enda Walsh In Search Of Justice 1938 5m 1f Taken from Fear and Misery in the Third Reich The judge is coached and then briefed by the Inspector and subsequently the Prosecutor regarding the case of a Jew who has been beaten up and robbed by the SS There is a conflict between what the locals want and what the Nazis want Torn between the two the Judge asks the advice of a colleague only to be told to look after his own interests first AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett OTHER TRANSLATIONS Eric Bentley The Informer 1938 2m 2f Dramatic sketch of family life in Hitler s Third Reich AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett OTHER TRANSLATIONS Eric Bentley The Jewish Wife 1938 1m 1f A woman is saying goodbye to friends on the phone She then begins to rehearse a speech she intends to deliver to her husband Slowly it is revealed that she is a Jewish woman married to a Nazi and she knows it is better for him if she leaves him AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Martin Crimp OTHER TRANSLATIONS Eric Bentley Leila Doolan 57

SIX LEHRST CKE The Flight Over The Ocean DER OZEANFLUG 1928 29 1m plus extra voices Radio play Lindbergh describes his preparations for his solo flight of 1927 across the Atlantic Ocean His enemies are the weather fog and snow and his own body sleep They all express their determination to overcome him Reports come in from other ships at sea and other continents through use of a vocal chorus But Lindbergh overcomes the obstacles and his own fears and the work ends in praise for his stunning achievement AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett OTHER TRANSLATIONS George Antheil SCORE Paul Hindemith The Baden Baden Lesson On Consent BADENER LEHRST CK VOM EINVERST NDNIS 1929 4m plus chorus Four airmen have crashed and are in danger of death The audience doubles as the chorus who are asked whether or not to help these young men But no these airmen must reconcile themselves to death When the first pilot tries to rail against this fate he is sent off the platform as worthless his claim to be heard ending with his social function The chorus proceeds to tell the others to help them change the world AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Geoffrey Skelton SCORE Paul Hindemith OTHER TRANSLATIONS Ralph Manheim rights handled by Universal Edition He Said Yes He Said No DER JASAGER DER NEINSAGER 1929 30 1m 1f 4f m plus chorus Based on the Japanese play Taniko translated into English by Arthur Waley A teacher leads an expedition of his students to the mountain taking with him a boy whose mother is ill The boy falls ill too on the journey Custom dictates that the boy must be sacrificed by being thrown into the valley which the other students do regretfully albeit with the boy s consent AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett Wolfgang Sauerlander OTHER TRANSLATIONS Gerhard Nellhaus SCORE Kurt Weill 58

The Decision DIE MASSNAHME 1930 4m plus chorus Four political agitators return home from a successful mission in China During their report to a controlling Chorus however they were forced to admit to killing a young communist In a series of short scenes they act out this communist s mistakes that led to his death in order to logically explain to the Chorus why they were forced to kill him AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS John Willett OTHER TRANSLATIONS Carl Mueller The Exception And The Rule DIE AUSNAHME UND DIE REGEL 1930 8m 1f A merchant is travelling across the desert He mistrusts his guide because he finds him overly friendly with the porter and sends him away The porter subsequently loses their way in the desert and they begin to run low on supplies When the porter offers him a drink of water the merchant thinks he s going to attack him and so shoots him In the following courtroom scene the judge finds the merchant not guilty on the proviso that the underdog shall always want to attack his employer and therefore how was the merchant to know that this was an exception to the rule AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS Tom Osborn Ralph Manheim OTHER TRANSLATIONS Eric Bentley The Horatians And The Curiatians DIE HORATIER UND DIE KURIATER 1933 34 Ensemble The Curiatians decide to attack the city of the Horatians both sides prepare their armies for battle Owing to their superior armaments the Curiatians win the first engagements but their pursuit of all the spoils splits them allowing the Horatian swordsmen to sweep in and take the victory AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS H R Hays 59

OTHER Berlin Requiem DAS BERLINER REQUIEM 1929 radio play A collaboration with Kurt Weill who provided musical accompaniment to a selection of poems written by Brecht The Seven Deadly Sins DIE SIEBEN TODSUENDEN DER KLEINBUERGER 1933 2f plus ensemble Ballet libretto Set in America Two sisters Anna I and II are sent off to make their fortune Across seven years they traverse seven cities in each of which Anna II is tempted by one of the seven deadly sins She manages to avoid each one in turn and the two sisters succeed in finding fortune enough to return home and build a house for their family In the final episode another two Annas are foolish enough to commit these sins and are ruined AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS W H Auden and Chester Kallman SCORE Kurt Weill The Trial Of Lucullus DAS VERH R DES LUKULLUS 1938 39 Radio play 10m 1f After his great burial Roman general Lucullus is called to judgement in the underworld by a peasant a slave a fishwife a baker and a courtesan The figures from his triumphant frieze are called as witnesses to his military victories to defend him against the accusations However the jury and judge point out the human loss in each case and decide there is blood on his hands AVAILABLE TRANSLATIONS H R Hays 60

AVAILABLE FILM TV RIGHTS NO L COWARD Prose Pomp and Circumstance 1960 novel Present Indicative Future Indefinite Past Conditional 1937 1954 and 1986 autobiographies Collection of short stories 1985 Plays The Rat Trap 1918 The Better Half 1922 Sirocco 1927 Fallen Angels 1925 Semi Monde 1926 This Was a Man 1927 Post Mortem 1932 Point Valaine 1934 Present Laughter 1939 Time Remembered 1940 Peace In Our Time 1947 Long Island Sound 1947 South Sea Bubble 1951 Relative Values 1951 Nude With Violin 1956 Look After Lulu 1959 Suite in Three Keys 1966 Star Quality 1967 PATRICK HAMILTON Prose Monday Morning 1925 Craven House 1926 Twopence Coloured 1928 The Siege of Pleasure 1932 part of Midnight Bell trilogy The Plains of Cement 1934 part of Midnight Bell trilogy Impromptu in Moribundia 1939 The Slaves of Solitude 1947 The Gorse Trilogy The West pier Unknown Assailant Mr Stimpson Mr Gorse 1952 55 Plays The Duke in Darkness 1942 61

JOHN HOPKINS Plays Find Your Way Home 1970 Economic Necessity 1973 Next of Kin 1974 Losing Time 1979 Absent Forever 1987 Screenplays Talking to a Stranger 1966 BBC STEPHEN MACDONALD Plays Not About Heroes 1982 TOM MCGRATH Plays Laurel and Hardy 1976 The Hard Man 1977 TERENCE RATTIGAN Plays First Episode 1933 After the Dance 1939 Follow my Leader 1940 Flare Path 1942 Love in Idleness 1944 Harlequinade 1948 Adventure Story 1949 Variation on a Theme 1958 A Bequest to the Nation 1970 In Praise of Love 1973 THORNTON WILDER Prose The Cabala 1926 The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1927 The Woman of Andros 1930 Heaven s My Destination 1935 Ides of March 1948 The Eighth Day 1967 Theophilius North 1973 62

Plays The Skin of our Teeth 1942 EMLYN WILLIAMS Plays A Murder Has Been Arranged 1930 The Light of Heart 1940 Accolade 1951 Someone Waiting 1954 63