Composers and their stage works 

John (Peter) McGRATH

Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire - June 1, 1935

Stage Works

  1. A Man Has Two Fathers (produced 1958)
  2. The Invasion, with Barbara Cannings, adaptation of a play by Arthur Adamov (produced 1958)
  3. The Tent (produced 1958)
  4. Why the Chicken (produced 1959; revised version 1960)
  5. Tell Me, Tell Me (produced 1960)
  6. Take It (produced 1960)
  7. The Seagull, adaptation of the play by Chekhov (produced 1961)
  8. Basement in Bangkok, music and songs by Dudley Moore (produced 1963)
  9. Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (produced 1966)
  10. Bakke's Night of Fame, adaptation of the novel A Danish Gambit by William Butler (produced 1968)
  11. Comrade Jacob, adaptation of the novel by David Caute (produced 1969)
  12. Random Happenings in the Hebrides; or, The Social Democrat and the Stormy Sea (produced 1970)
  13. Sharpeville Crackers (produced 1970)
  14. Unruly Elements
    1. Angel of the Morning (produced 1971)
    1. Plugged-in to History (produced 1971)
    2. They're Knocking Down the Pie-Shop (produced 1971)
    3. Hover Through the Fog, Out of Sight (produced 1971)
    4. Out of Sight (produced 1971)
  15. Trees in the Wind (produced 1971)
  16. Soft or a Girl (produced 1971; revised version, as My Pal and Me, (produced 1975)
  17. The Caucasian Chalk Circle, adaptation of the play by Brecht (produced 1972)
  18. Prisoners of the War, adaptation of the play by Peter Terson (produced 1972)
  19. Underneath (produced 1972)
  20. Serjeant Musgrave Dances On, adaptation of the play Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden (produced 1972)
  21. Fish in the Sea, music by Mark Brown (produced 1972; revised version produced 1975)
  22. The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil ( produced 1973) 1973; revised version, 1975; revised version, 1981.
  23. The Game's a Bogey (produced 1974)
  24. Boom (produced 1974; revised version produced 1974)
  25. Lay Off (produced 1975)
  26. Little Red Hen (produced 1975)
  27. Oranges and Lemons (produced 1975)
  28. Yobbo Nowt, music by Mark Brown (produced 1975) as Mum's the Word (produced 1977) as Left Out Lady (produced 1981)
  29. The Rat Trap, music by Mark Brown (produced 1976)
  30. Out of Our Heads, music by Mark Brown (produced 1976)
  31. Trembling Giant (English version) (produced 1977)
  32. Trembling Giant (Scottish version) (produced 1977)
  33. The Life and Times of Joe of England (produced 1977)
  34. Big Square Fields, music by Mark Brown (produced 1979)
  35. Joe's Drum (produced 1979)
  36. Bitter Apples, music by Mark Brown (produced 1979)
  37. If You Want to Know the Time (produced 1979)
  38. Swings and Roundabouts (produced 1980)
  39. Blood Red Roses (produced 1980; revised version produced 1982)
  40. Nightclass, music by Rick Lloyd (produced 1981)
  41. The Catch, music by Mark Brown (produced 1981)
  42. Rejoice!, music by Mark Brown (produced 1982)
  43. On the Pig's Back, with David MacLennan (produced 1983)
  44. The Women of the Dunes (produced in Dutch, 1983)
  45. Women in Power; or, Up the Acropolis, music by Thanos Mikroutsikos, adaptation of plays by Aristophanes (produced 1983)
  46. Six Men of Dorset, music by John Tams, adaptation of a play by Miles Malleson and Harry Brooks (produced 1984)
  47. The Baby and the Bathwater: The Imperial Policeman (produced 1984; revised version produced 1985)
  48. The Albannach, music by Eddie McGuire, adaptation of the novel by Fionn MacColla (produced 1985)
  49. Behold the Sun (opera libretto), with Alexander Goehr, music by Goehr (produced 1985)
  50. All the Fun of the Fair, with others (produced 1986)
  51. Border Warfare (produced 1989)
  52. John Brown's Body (produced 1990)
  53. Watching for Dolphins (produced 1991)
  54. The Wicked Old Man (produced 1992)

SCREENPLAYS:

  1. Billion Dollar Brain, 1967;
  2. The Bofors Gun, 1968;
  3. The Virgin Soldiers, with John Hopkins and Ian La Fresnais, 1969;
  4. The Reckoning, 1970
  5. Translator, with Maureen Teitelbaum, The Rules of the Game (screenplay), by Jean Renoir. 1970.
  6. The Dressmaker, 1989.

RADIO PLAY:

TELEVISION PLAYS:

  1. scripts for Bookstand series, 1961;
  2. People's Property (Z-Cars series), 1962;
  3. scripts for Tempo series, 1963;
  4. Diary of a Young Man series, with Troy Kennedy Martin, 1964;
  5. The Entertainers (documentary), 1964;
  6. The Day of Ragnarok, 1965;
  7. Mo (documentary), 1965;
  8. Shotgun, with Christopher Williams, 1966;
  9. Diary of a Nobody, with Ken Russell, from the novel by George and Weedon Grossmith, 1966;
  10. Orkney, from stories by George Mackay Brown, 1971
  11. Bouncing Boy, 1972
  12. Once upon a Union, 1977
  13. The Adventures of Frank, from his play The Life and Times of Joe of England, 1979;
  14. Sweetwater Memories (documentary), 1984;
  15. Blood Red Roses, 1986;
  16. There Is a Happy Land, 1987.

OTHER

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: University of Cambridge.

CRITICAL STUDIES: