plays include The Custom of the Country and The Desert
Air (both for the Royal Shakespeare Company); Mrs. Klein, which opened in London (National
Theatre and West End) in 1988 and in New York in 1995; and Cressida (Almeida at the Albery,
2000). Adaptations: Six Characters in Search of an Author (National, 1987), Therese Raquin
(Chichester, 1990), John Gabriel Borkman (National, 1996), Naked (Almeida, 1998 and 2001) and
Three Sisters (National, 2003). Opera libretto: The Little Prince, composer Rachel Portman
(Houston Grand Opera 2003). Screenplays include adaptations of novels by Patrick Hamilton,
Doris Lessing, Josef Skvorecky, Armistead Maupin and Ford Madox Ford. His writing about the
theatre includes 99 Plays, a personal view of playwriting from Aeschylus to the present day,
published in 1992; and Changing Stages, a view of British theatre in the twentieth century
co-written with Richard Eyre (published in 2000). He is currently adapting Philip Pullman's His
Dark Materials trilogy for the National Theatre. Vincent in Brixton won the 2003
Olivier Award as Best Play.
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The Miracle Worker
Equivocation
Sesame Street Live
Dear Edwina
Nice Jewish Girls
Gone Bad
The Pride
Circle Mirror
Transformation
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Finian's Rainbow
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Rock of Ages
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