THEATRE

Theatre work includes:

  OCCUPATIONS
– first performed at Stables Theatre, Manchester, 1970, with Richard Wilson, directed by Gordon McDougall. London premiere, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1971, with Patrick Stewart and Ben Kingsley, dir. Buzz Goodbody. Pub. Faber & Faber. See also tv.


  SAM, SAM
- first perf. Open Space Theatre, London, 1972, dir. Charles Marowitz. Pub. Plays & Players.


  THE PARTY
– first perf. the National Theatre at the Old Vic, London, 1973, with Sir Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay; dir. John Dexter. Pub. Faber. See also tv.


  COMEDIANS
– first perf. Nottingham Playhouse, 1975, with Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Rea; dir Richard Eyre. Transferred to National Theatre and then Wydhams Theatre, London. First US production in New York at the Music Box Theatre, 1976, with Jonathan Pryce, John Lithgow, dir. Mike Nichols. Pub. Faber. See also tv. ALL GOOD MEN – first perf. Young Vic, London, 1975. Pub. Faber. See also tv.

  ALL GOOD MEN
– first perf. Young Vic, London, 1975. Pub. Faber. See also tv.

  THE CHERRY ORCHARD
– new English version of Chekhov's play. First perf. Nottingham Playhouse, 1977; dir. Richard Eyre. See also tv.


  DEEDS
– (with Howard Brenton, David Hare, Ken Campbell) – first perf. Nottingham Playhouse, 1977; dir. Richard Eyre.


  OI FOR ENGLAND
– first perf. Royal Court Theatre, London, 1982; dir. Antonia Bird. Pub. Faber. See also tv.


  REAL DREAMS
– (based on short story by Jeremy Pikser) – first perf. Williamstown Theatre Festival, USA, 1984, with Kevin Spacey; dir. Trevor Griffiths. London premiere, Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican, 1986, with Gary Oldman; dir. Ron Daniels. Pub. Faber.


  PIANO
– (based on the film Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano by Adabashyan and Mikhalkov) – first perf. National Theatre, 1990, with Stephen Rea, Penelope Wilton; dir. Howard Davies. Pub. Faber.


  THE GULF BETWEEN US
– first. perf. West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, 1992, with Kulvinder Ghir, Akram Telawe, Dave Hill and Selwa Naqqara; dir. Trevor Griffiths. Pub. Faber.


  THATCHER'S CHILDREN
– first perf. Bristol Old Vic, 1993, with Kulvinder Ghir; dir. Andy Hay. Pub. Faber.


  WHO SHALL BE HAPPY…?
– first perf. Belfast Festival, 1995, with Stanley Townsend, Kulvinder Ghir; dir. Trevor Griffiths. Pub. Faber as Hope in the Year Two. See also tv.

 

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