Playwrights and their stage works 

Peter (Alexander) Ustinov CBE

Writer, actor, film-maker, opera director, documentary-maker and raconteur.

Born London, 16 April, 1921. Died 28, March 2004

Stage Works

  1. The Bishop of Limpopoland (sketch: produced 1939).
  2. Sketches in Swinging the Gate (produced 1940).
  3. Sketches in Diversion and Diversion 2 (produced 1940).
  4. Fishing for Shadows, adaptation of a play by Jean Sarment produced 1940).
  5. House of Regrets (produced 1942). 1943.
  6. Beyond (produced 1943). 1944
  7. Blow Your Own Trumpet (produced 1943).
  8. The Banbury Nose (produced 1944). 1945.
  9. The Tragedy of Good Intentions (produced 1945).
  10. The Indifferent Shepherd (produced 1948).
  11. Frenzy, adaptation of a play by Ingmar Bergman (produced London, 1948).
  12. The Man in the Raincoat (produced 1949).
  13. The Love of Four Colonels (produced 1951). 1951.
  14. The Moment o f Truth (produced 1951). 1953
  15. High Balcony (produced 1952).
  16. No Sign of the Dove (produced 1953).
  17. Romanoff and Juliet (produced 1956). 1957; revised version, as R Loves J, music by Alexander Faris, lyrics by Julian More (produced 1973).
  18. The Empty Chair (produced 1956).
  19. Paris Not So Gay (produced 1958).
  20. Photo Finish: An Adventure in Biography (produced 1962). 1962.
  21. The Life in My Hands (produced 1964).
  22. Halfway Up the Tree (produced 1967). 1968.
  23. The Unknown Soldier and His Wife: Two Acts of War Separated by a Truce for Refreshment (produced 1967). 1967.
  24. Who's Who in Hell (produced 1974).
  25. Overheard (produced 1981).
  26. The Marriage, adaptation of an opera libretto by Gogol, music by Mussorgsky (produced 1981).
  27. Beethoven's Tenth (produced 1982).
  28. An Evening with Peter Ustinov (produced 1990).