Playwrights and their stage works 

Cecil P(hilip) TAYLOR

Scottish playwright. Born Glasgow 6 November, 1929; Died 1981.

Stage Works

  1. Aa Went to Blaydon Races, music by Cecil P. Taylor (produced 1962).
  2. Happy Days Are Here Again (produced 1965) 1968.
  3. Of Hope and Glory (produced 1965).
  4. Fable (produced 1965) 1967.
  5. Allergy (produced 1966) 1966.
  6. Bread and Butter (produced 1966) 1967.
  7. Who's Pinkus? Where's Chelm? music by Monty Norman (produced 1966).
  8. Mister David (produced 1967).
  9. The Ballachulish Beat: A Play with Songs. Music by Cecil P. Taylor, 1967.
  10. Oil and Water (televised, 1967; produced 1972).
  11. What Can a Man Do (produced 1968).
  12. Happy Anniversary (televised, 1968; produced 1972).
  13. Thank You Very Much (produced 1969). 1970.
  14. Lies about Vietnam/Truth about Sarajevo (produced 1969) 1970.
  15. Brave (produced 1970).
  16. Revolution (televised, 1970)
  17. The Cleverness of Us (produced 1971).
  18. Bloch's Play (televised, 1971; produced 1971). 1971.
  19. Grace Darling Show (produced 1971).
  20. Passion Play, in Christmas Present (produced 1971).
  21. Em'n Ben (produced 1971).
  22. Ginger Golly and the Fable Men (for children: produced 1972).
  23. The Black and White Minstrels (produced 1972).
  24. Me (produced 1972).
  25. Words (televised, 1972) 1973.
  26. Peer Gynt, adaptation of the play by Ibsen (produced 1972; as Gynt, produced 1975. Antigone, adaptation of the play by Sophocles (produced 1972).
  27. Threepenny Opera, adaptation of a play by Brecht, music by Kurt Weill (produced 1972). You Are My Heart's Delight (produced 1973).
  28. The Grand Adultery Convention (produced 1973).
  29. Next Year in Tel Aviv (produced 1973).
  30. Drums in the Night, adaptation of a play by Brecht (produced 1973).
  31. SP Opera (produced 1973).
  32. Waiting for Lefty, adaptation of the play by Clifford Odets (produced 1973).
  33. Apples (produced 1973) 1976.
  34. Columba (produced 1973).
  35. Carol O.K. (produced 1974).
  36. Schippel, adaptation of the play Sternheim (produced 1974; as The Plumber's Progress, produced 1975).
  37. So Far So Bad (produced 1974).
  38. Spital Tongue Plays (produced 1974).
  39. Pilgrim (produced 1975).
  40. The Killingworth Play (produced 1975).
  41. All Change, with Alex Glasgow (produced 1975).
  42. Aladdin (produced 1976).
  43. Bandits (produced 1976).
  44. Goldberg (produced 1976).
  45. Walter (produced 1977).
  46. Ophelia (produced 1977).
  47. Peter Pan and Emily (produced 1977).
  48. Geordie Jubilee (produced 1977).
  49. Withdrawal Symptoms (produced 1978).
  50. A Nightingale Sang in Eldon Square (produced 1978)
  51. Not by Love Alone (produced 1978).
  52. Magic Island (produced 1978).
  53. Give Us a Kiss (produced 1978).
  54. Open the Big Box (produced 1978).
  55. Cyrano (produced 1978).
  56. Ali Baba (produced 1978).
  57. Operation Elvis (produced 1979).
  58. Peter Pan Man (produced 1979).
  59. Rainbow Coloured Disco Dancer (produced 1980).
  60. To Be a Farmer's Boy (produced 1980).
  61. Give Me Sunshine, Give Me Smiles (produced 1980).

Radio Plays:

Love Story, 1966.

Television Plays:

  1. Lone Rider, 1966;
  2. Myopia, 1967;
  3. Oil and Water, 1967;
  4. Friends, 1967;
  5. Happy Anniversary, 1968;
  6. Thank You very Much for the Family Circle, 1968;
  7. In Case, 1969;
  8. Street Fighter, 1969;
  9. Revolutionary (trilogy: Charles and Cromwell, Lenin, Castro), 1970;
  10. Bloch's Play, 1971;
  11. Adam Smith series, 1972);
  12. Words, 1972;
  13. King and Cuthbertson, 1974;
  14. Izzie (Nightingale's Boys series), 1975;
  15. The First Train Now Arriving, from work by Hunter Davies, 1975;
  16. For Services to Myself, 1976.

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