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Quiz Monkey |
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| Playwrights |
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| Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) |
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Edward Albee |
| Traveler Without Luggage (1937), Antigone (1943), Waltz of the Toreadors (1951), The Lark (L'Alouette, 1953), Ring Round the Moon (1950), The Restless Heart (1957), Becket (1959) |
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Jean Anouilh |
| The Accused (2001 – also starred in it in London's West End) |
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Jeffrey Archer |
| Relatively Speaking (1965), How the Other Half Loves (1969), Absurd Person Singular (1972), Absent Friends (1974), Bedroom Farce (1975), Seasons Greetings (1980), Way Upstream (1981), A Chorus of Disapproval (1984), Man of the Moment (1988), Private Fears in Public Places (2004) |
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Alan Ayckbourn |
| Round and Round the Garden, Living Together, Table Manners (1963, 1973, 1973: The Norman Conquests) | ||
| Quality Street (1901), The Admirable Crichton (1902), Peter Pan (1904), What Every Woman Knows (1906), Dear Brutus (1917), Mary Rose (1920) |
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J. M. Barrie |
| The Figaro plays: The Barber of Seville (1773), The Marriage of Figaro (1778), The Guilty Mother (1791) |
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Pierre Beaumarchais |
| Murphy (1938), Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), The Unnamable (1953), Waiting for Godot (1953), Watt (1953), Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), How It Is (1961) |
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Samuel Beckett |
| The Quare Fellow (1954), The Hostage (1958) |
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Brendan Behan |
| Forty Years On (1968), The Madness of George III (1991), The History Boys (2004) |
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Alan Bennett |
| A Man for All Seasons (1960) |
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Robert Bolt |
| Mother Courage and her Children (1939), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941), The Good Person (or Woman) of Szechwan (1943), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1945), Life of Galileo (1947) |
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Bertholt Brecht |
| Hobson's Choice (1916 – set in a Salford boot shop, 1880s) |
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Harold Brighouse |
| The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1897), The Three Sisters (1901), The Cherry Orchard (1904) |
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Anton Chekhov |
| The Old Bachelor (1693), The Double Dealer (1694), Love for Love (1695), The Mourning Bride (1697), The Way of the World (1700) |
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William Congreve |
| Two Into One (1981), Run for your Wife (1983), Out of Order (1991 – a.k.a. Whose Wife Is It Anyway?), Funny Money (1994) |
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Ray Cooney |
| Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1930), Cavalcade (1931), Design for Living (1933), Present Laughter (1939), Blithe Spirit (1941) |
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Noel Coward |
| Jupiter Laughs (1940 – his only play) |
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A. J. Cronin |
| A Taste of Honey (1958 – Salford–born writer, first play, written aged 18) |
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Shelagh Delaney |
| Marriage à la Mode (1673), Aureng–Zebe (1676), All for Love (1678), Don Sebastian, King of Portugal (1690) |
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John Dryden |
| Steaming (1981) |
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Nell Dunn |
| Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1949) |
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T. S. Eliot |
| The Recruiting Officer (1706), The Beaux' Stratagem (1707) |
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George Farquhar |
| Tom Thumb (1730 – note that Tom Thumb is a character from folklore) |
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Henry Fielding |
| The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (1974) |
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Dario Fo |
| Noises Off (1982), Copenhagen (2000), Democracy (2003) |
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Michael Frayn |
| A Sleep of Prisoners (1951), The Lady's not for Burning (1948), Venus Observed (1950) |
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Christopher Fry |
| The Beggar's Opera (1728 – the music came from broadsides and the folk tradition, arranged by German–born Johann Christoph Pepusch) |
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John Gay |
| Bouncers (1977), Up 'n' Under (1984), On the Piste (1990), Happy Families (1991), The Office Party (1992): born 1956 in Upton, near Wakefiled, West Yorkshire; creative director of the Theatre Royal Wakefield from 2011 |
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John Godber |
| Faust (in two parts – 1808 and 1810) |
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Johann W. von Goethe |
| The Government Inspector (1836) |
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Nikolai Gogol |
| Butley (1971), Otherwise Engaged (1975), Quartermaine's Terms (1982), Cell Mates (1995) |
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Simon Gray |
| The Living Room (1953), The Potting Shed (1956), The Complaisant Lover (1959), Carving a Statue (1964), The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975), Yes and No (1980), For Whom the Bell Chimes (1980) |
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Graham Greene |
| The Good–Natur'd Man (1768), She Stoops to Conquer (1771) |
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Oliver Goldsmith |
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1959)
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Willis Hall |
| Plenty (1978), Pravda (1985), The Blue Room (1998 – a reworking of Schnitzler's Der Reigen) |
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David Hare |
| Outside Edge (1979 – adapted for television 1982, and into a sitcom 1994–6) |
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Richard Harris |
| The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), Toys in the Attic (1960) |
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Lillian Hellman |
| Peer Gynt (1867), A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the People (1882), Hedda Gabler (1890), The Master Builder (1892) |
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Henrik Ibsen |
| Rhinoceros (1959), Exit the King (1962) |
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Eugene Ionesco |
| Volpone (1605), Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), Bartholomew Fair (1614) |
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Ben Jonson |
| Abigail's Party (1977 stage play, recorded for BBC's Play for Today in the same year), Ecstasy (1979), Greek Tragedy (1989) |
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Mike Leigh |
| The Rural Trilogy: Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), The House of Bernardo Alba (1936) |
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Federico Garcia Lorca |
| Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) |
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David Mamet |
| Dido, Queen of Carthage (c. 1586), Tamburlaine (two parts – c. 1587–8), The Jew of Malta (c. 1589), Dr. Faustus (c. 1589, or c. 1593), Edward II (c. 1592), The Massacre of Paris (c. 1593) |
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Christopher Marlowe |
| A Man of Honour (1903), Lady Frederick (1907), The Land of Promise (1913), Our Betters (1917), The Circle (1921), The Constant Wife (1926) |
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W. Somerset Maugham |
| Children of a Lesser God (1979) |
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Mark Medoff |
| All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge (1955) |
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Arthur Miller |
| Toad of Toad Hall (1929 – based on The Wind in the Willows) |
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A. A. Milne |
| The School for Wives (1662), Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), The Miser (1668), The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670), The Imaginary Invalid (1673) |
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Molière |
| A Voyage Around My Father (autobiographical play, originally written for radio 1963, TV 1969, later a stage play; about his relationship with his blind barrister father) |
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John Mortimer |
| Alfie (1963); All in Good Time (1963 – adapted for the 1966 film The Family Way) |
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Bill Naughton |
| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967), Privates on Parade (1977) |
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Peter Nichols |
| The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), Juno and the Paycock (1924), The Plough and the Stars (1926), The Silver Tassie (1927), The End of the Beginning (1937), Red Roses for Me (1942), Cock–a–Doodle Dandy (1949) |
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Sean O'Casey |
| Anna Christie (1920), All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), The Iceman Cometh (1939), Long Day's Journey into Night (1941) |
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Eugene O'Neill |
| Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1964), Loot (1965), What the Butler Saw (1969) |
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Joe Orton |
| Look Back in Anger (1956), The Entertainer (1957), Luther (1961), Inadmissible Evidence (1964) |
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John Osborne |
| The Magistrate (1885), The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1893), Trelawney of the Wells (1898) |
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Arthur Wing Pinero |
| The Room (his first – first produced 1957), The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1957), The Dumb Waiter (1959), The Lover (1962), The Homecoming (1964), Betrayal (1978), One for the Road (1984), Mountain Language (1988), Moonlight (1993), Ashes to Ashes (1996), Celebration (2000) |
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Harold Pinter |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Henry IV (1922 – translated into English by Tom Stoppard, 2004) |
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Luigi Pirandello |
| Dangerous Corner (1932 – first), Laburnum Grove (1933), Eden End (1934), Time and the Conways (1937), I Have Been Here Before (1937), When We are Married (1938), Johnson Over Jordan (1939), An Inspector Calls (1946), The Linden Tree (1947) |
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J. B. Priestley |
| Boris Godunov (1825 – the source for Mussorgsky's opera of the same title, composed around 1870), The Stone Guest (1830), Mozart and Salieri (1830) |
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Alexander Pushkin |
| French Without Tears (1936), The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952), Separate Tables (1954), Ross (1960 – a biography of T. E. Lawrence) |
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Terrence Rattigan |
| The Ghost Train (1923) |
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Arnold Ridley |
| Our Day Out (1977 – updated musical version 2009), John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert (1974), One for the Road (1976), Stags & Hens (1978), Educating Rita (1980), Blood Brothers (1983 – musical), Shirley Valentine (1986) |
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Willy Russell |
| Sleuth (1970) |
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Anthony Shaffer |
| Five Finger Exercise (1958), Equus (1973), Amadeus (1979) |
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Peter Shaffer |
| Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Arms and the Man (1894), Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Man and Superman (1903), John Bull's Other Island (1904), Major Barbara (1905), Androcles and the Lion (1912), Pygmalion (1913), Saint Joan (1923), The Millionairess (1936), Buoyant Billions (his last full-length play, written at the age of 92 and premiered in 1948) |
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George Bernard Shaw |
| Prometheus Unbound (1820) – inspired by the original by Aeschylus, a 'lyrical drama' not intended for performance |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| The Rivals (1775), A Trip to Scarborough (1777), The School for Scandal (1777), The Critic (1779) |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| Journey's End (1928 – based on his experiences in World War I)
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R. C. Sherriff |
| Come Blow Your Horn (1961), Barefoot in the Park (1963), The Odd Couple (1965), The Last of the Red–Hot Lovers (1969), The Sunshine Boys (1972), California Suite (1976); Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues (1985), Broadway Bound (1986) – the semi–autobiographical Eugene Trilogy |
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Neil Simon |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966), The Real Inspector Hound (1968), After Magritte (1970), Jumpers (1972), Dirty Linen and New–Found–Land (1976 – two short plays, always performed together), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977), Night and Day (1978), The Real Thing (1982), Arcadia (1993), The Coast of Utopia (2002 trilogy: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage) |
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Tom Stoppard |
| The Playboy of the Western World (1907) |
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J. M. Synge |
| Wrote all but three of the Aldwych farces, first performed 1923–33 (including Rookery Nook) |
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Ben Travers |
| Romanoff and Juliet (1956) |
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Peter Ustinov |
| The Man Who Changed His Name (1928), The Squeaker (1928) |
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Edgar Wallace |
| The White Devil (1612), The Duchess of Malfi (1623) |
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John Webster |
| You'll Have Had Your Hole (first produced in 1998, to largely negative reviews, by the West Yorkshire Playhouse) |
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Irvine Welsh |
| Chicken Soup with Barley (1958), Roots (1958), Chips with Everything (1962), The Friends (1970) |
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Arnold Wesker |
| Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), An Ideal Husband (1895), Salome (1896) |
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Oscar Wilde |
| The Angel that Troubled the Waters (1928), The Long Christmas Dinner (1931), The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (1931), Our Town (1938), The Merchant of Yonkers (1938 – revised in 1954 as The Matchmaker), The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) |
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Thornton Wilder |
| The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Night of the Iguana (1961) |
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Tennessee Williams |
| The Jeweller's Shop (1960 – subtitle A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony, Passing on Occasion into a Drama) |
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Karel Wojtyla (later Pope John Paul II) |
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