CONTEMPORARY 1/ DRAMATISTS SECOND EDITION WITH A PREFACE BY RUBY COHN EDITOR JAMES VINSON ASSOCIATE EDITOR D. L. KIRKPATRICK ST. JAMES PRESS ' ST. MARTIN'S PRESS LONDON NEW YORK COPYRIGHT© 1977 BY ST. JAMES PRESS LTD. All rights reserved. For information, write: St. James Press Ltd., 3 Percy Street, London WIP 9FA or St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10010 Typeset by Computacomp (UK) Ltd., and Printed in Great Britain ISBN 0 900997 86 9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-54628 First published in the u.K. and U.s.A. in 1977 /) f') ,1 / '\ ~-7 \) CONTENTS PREFACE BY RUBY COHN page vii EDITOR'S NOTE xi ADVISERS AND CONTRIBUTORS xiii. CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS 9 SUPPLEMENT SCREEN WRITERS 891 RADIO WRITERS 901 TELEVISION WRITERS 913 MUSICAL LIBRETTISTS 923 THE THEATRE OF MIXED MEANS 939 THEATRE COLLECTIVES 951 APPENDIX 967 TITLE INDEX 991 NOTES ON ADVISERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 1077 ADVISERS Arthur H. Ballet Frank Marcus Michael Benedikt E. A. Markham Eric Bentley Benedict Nightingale Herbert Blau Richard Schechner John Bowen Alan Schneider Harold Clurman Michael Smith Ruby Cohn John Spurling John Robert Colombo Alan Strachan Albert Cook J. L. Styan Robert W. Corrigan Howard Taubman W. A. Darlington John Russell Taylor John Elsom J. C. Trewin Richard Gilman Darwin T. Turner Ronald Hayman Irving Wardle Stanley Kauffmann Gerald Weales Laurence Kitchin B. A. Young Richard Kostelanetz CONTRIBUTORS Erica Aronson Martin Gottfried Roger Baker Anthony Graham-White Arthur H. Ballet Jonathan Hammond David W. Beams Ronald Hayman James Bertram Dick Higgins C. W. E. Bigsby Errol Hill Michael Billington Morgan Y. Himelstein Elmer Borklund Foster Hirsch John Bowen Harold Hobson Gaynor F. Bradish William M. Hoffman Katharine Brisbane Mervyn Jones Connie Brissenden Burton Kendle John Russell Brown Laurence Kitchin Joseph Bruchac . Richard Kostelanetz Jarka M. Burian John G. Kuhn Bernard Carragher Michael T. Leech D. D. C. Chambers Allan. Lewis Harold Clurman Mary Lord Ruby Cohn Frank Marcus Robert W. Corrigan E. A. Markham W. A. Darlington Thomas B. Markus Reid Douglas Thomas J. McCormack Arnold Edinborough George McElroy John Elsom Artbur E. McGuinness John V. Falconieri Walter J. Meserve Michael Feingold Louis D. Mitchell Leonard Fleischer Christian H. Moe Melvin 1. Friedman Benedict Nightingale John Fuegi Garry O'Connor S. R. Gilbert Marion O'Connor xiii Joseph Parisi A. Richard Sogliuzzo Dorothy Parker John Spurling Philip Purser Carol Simpson Stern Henry Raynor Alan Strachan Nonnita Rees J. L. Styan John M. Reilly Alrene Sykes John D. Ripley John Russell Taylor James Roose-Evans J. E. P. Thomson Arthur Sainer J. C. Trewin Adele Edling Shank Simon Trussler Theodore Shank Darwin T. Turner Elaine Shragge David Wade Michael Sidnell Gerald Weales Judith Cooke Simmons T. C. Worsley P. Adams Sitney B. A. Young Michael Smith Heathcote Williams Charles Wood Tennessee Williams Olwen Wymark David Williamson Ted Willis Susan Yankowitz Lanford Wilson Robert Wilson Paul Zindel Snoo Wilson Supplement 1: Screen Writers Robert Benton Stanley Kubrick Robert Bolt Joseph L. Mankiewicz Richard Brooks Elaine May John- Cassavetes David Newman Charlie Chaplin John Osborne Paddy Chayefsky Eleanor Perry T. E. B. Clarke Harold Pinter Jules Dassin Abraham Polonsky Bryan Forbes Michael Powell Carl 'Foreman Frederic Raphael Christopher Fry Terence Rattigan William Goldman Neil Simon Graham Greene Terry Southern Buck Henry Stewart Stern John Hustort Dalton Trumbo Christopher Isherwood Orson Welles Garson Kanin Billy Wilder Howard Koch Supplement 2: Radio Writers Rhys Adrian Bill Morrison John Arden Philip Oxman F. C. Ball Harold Pinter Howard Barker Jonathan Raban Samuel Beckett Derek Raby Frederick Bradnum Piers Paul Read Caryl Churchill Henry Reed Ian Dougall David Rudkin John Fletcher Michael Sadler Shirley Gee James Saunders John George R. C. Scriven David Halliwell N. F. Simpson John Harrison Tom Stoppard Don Haworth Don Taylor Susan Hill Peter Terson Gabriel Josipovici Gwyn Thomas Henry Livings William Trevor Tom Mallin Fay Weldon Philip Martin RADIO WRITERS CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS , novels are The Bird of Night, 1972, In the Springtime of the Year, 1974, and .The Land ofLost r Content, 1976; short stories: A Bit of Singing and Dancing, 1973. JOSIPOVICI, Gabriel. Radio plays: Playback, 1973; Words, 1973; A Life, 1973. Stage plays: Dreams of Mrs. Frazer, 1972; Evidence of Intimacy, 1972; Flaws, 1973; Echo, 1975. I LIVINGS, Henry. See his dictionary entry. MALLIN, Tom. Radio plays: Curtains, 1971 (published, 197 I); Downpour, 1972; Rooms, 1973; Vicar Martin, 1975; The Lodger, 1976. Stage plays: As Is Proper, 1971 ; The Novelist, 1971; Cot, in Christmas Present, 1971; Mrs. Argent, 1973. Novel: Knut, 1971. MARTIN, Philip. Radio plays: Negatives, 1972; Lord Nelson Lives in Liverpool 8, 1974. Televis.ion plays: Gun Play, 1971; About a Bout, 1973. Stage plays: A Minor Operation, 1969; The Gunner's Daughter, 1910; Theatre ofDeath, 1970; Duel, 1970; The Deed, 1971 ; Window in the R oaf of the Sky, 1971; One Long Hunt; or, How Would You Like It?, 1972; The Rapist, 1973; A Tide in the Affairs of Women, 1975. MORRISON, Bill. Radio plays: The Love of Lady Margaret, 1972; The Great Gun­ .Running Episode, 1974; Ellen Cassidy, 1974; Crime and Punishment, from the novel by Dostoevsky, 1975; The Emperor ofIce-Cream, from the novel by Brian Moore, 1975 (staged, 1975); Craw's Flight, 1975; The Game of Dice; from play by Dimitri Kehaidis, 197.5. Television play: McKinley and Sarah, 1973. Stage plays: Sam Slade Is Missing, 1969 (published, 1973); Please Don't Shoot Me When I'm Down, 1970; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, from the novel by Thomas Hardy, 1971; Conn and the Conquerors of Space (for children), ·1971; Flying Blind, 1975. OXMAN, Philip. Radio play: The Origins of Capital and the Descent of Power, 1974. PINTER, Harold. See his dictionary entry. RABAN, Jonathan. Radio plays: ~ Game of Tambala, 1972; At the Gnte, 1973; The Anomaly, 1974. Television plays: Snooker, 1975; Water Baby, 1975. Books: Mark Twain's "Hucklebeny Finn, " 1968; The Technique ofModern Fiction, 1968; The Society of the Poem, 1971 ; editor, Poems by Robert Lowell, 1974. RABY, Derek. Radio plays: The Office, 1973; Tiger, 1974; A Cat Called Willie, 1974; Bandstand, 197 5. READ, Piers Paul. Radio plays : The Family .Firm, 1970; The House on Highbury Hill, music by· Julian Slade, 1971. Television plays: Coinddence, 1968; The Childhood Friend, 1974. Stage play: The Class War, in Colloquialisms, 1964. His most recent novels are The Professor's Daughter, 1971, and The Upstart,1973; also author of Alive! The Story of the Andes Survivors, 1974. REED, Henry. Radio plays: Noises On, 1947; Noises - Nasty and Nice, 1947; Moby Dick, from the novel by Melville, 1947 (published, 1947); Pytheas, 1947; Leopardi: The Unblest, The Monument, 1949-50 (publislied; 1971); A By-Election in the Nineties, 1951 ; The Dynasts, 1951.; Malatesta, 1952; The Streets of Pompeii, 1952 (published, 1971); TheGreatD~sireI Had, 1952 (published, 1971); Return to Naples, 1953 (published, 197 I); All for the Best, 1953; A Very Great Man Indeed, 1953 (published, 197 I); The 'Private Life of Hilda Tablet, 1954 (published, 1971); Hamlet; or, The Consequences ofFilial Piety, 1954 j The Battle of the Masks, 1954; The Queen and the Rebels, from a play by Ugo Betti, 1954 (staged, 1955; published, 1956); Emily Butler, 1954; Vincenzo, 1955 (published, 1971); A Hedge, Backwards, 1956 (published, 1971); Don Juan in Love, 1956; Alarica, 1956; Irene, 1957; Corruption in the Palace ofJustice, from a play by Ugo Betti, 1958 (staged, 1963); The Primal Scene, As It Were, 1958 (published, 1971); The Auction Sale, 1958; The Island Where the King Is a Child, 1959; One Flesh, 1959; Not a Drum Was Heard, 1959; Musique Discrete, with Donald Swann, 1959; The House on the Water, 1961; A Hospital Case, 1961; The America Prize, 1964; Zone 36, 1965; Summertime, 1969; The Two Mrs. Mortis, 1971; Like 910 I CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS RADIO WRITERS l I the Leaves, from play by Giuseppe Giacosa, 1976. Stage adaptations: The Burnt Flower-Bed, I from a play by Ugo Betti, 1955 (published, 1956); Summertime, from a play by Ugo Betti, j 1955 (published, 1956); Island of Goats, from a play by Ugo Betti, 1955 (published as Crime on Goat Island, 1960); The Advertisement, from a play by Natalia Ginzburg, 1968 (published, 1 1969). Other books: A Map of Verona, 1946, and Lessons of the War, 1970, both verse, and The Novel since 1939, 1947. RUDKIN, David. See his dictionary entry. SADLER, Michael. Radio plays: Gulliver's Way, 1970; The Bull of La Plata, 1970; Hopcraft into Europe, 1972; South Coast Twilight Serenade, 1975. Television plays: Mrs. Pool's Preserves, 1973; Pigeon-Hawk or Dove?, 1974; Cork and Bottle, 1976. Stage play: And Was Jerusalem, 1967. SAUNDERS, James. See his dictionary entry. SCRIVEN, R. C. Radio plays: The Peacock City of P'Tzan King, 1947; A Single Taper, 1948 (published, 1953); The Inward Eye: Boy - 13, 1948 (published, 1953); The Island of White Birds, 1948; Baron Bear and the Little Prince, with Phyllis Scriven, 1949; Little Jan Pandrum, with Phyllis Scriven, 1950; Vi'lets Sweet Vi'lets, with Phyllis Scriven, 1950; The Snow Queen, with Phyllis Scriven, 1950; Poet and Englishman, 1950; One Man's City: Leeds, 1951 ; The Runaway Rocking Horse, with Phyllis Scriven, .1952; B/uecap and .the Singing Wheel, with Phyllis Scriven, 1953; Joy of Angels, 1954; The Night and the Shadow, 1955; The Year of the Phoenix, 1955 (published, 1959); The Lamp and the Flame, 1956; Writing a Pantomime - The Babes in the Wood, 1961 ; Reynard the Fox, 1965; The Blue Cloak, 1966; Jack and the Beanstalk, 1968; The Prospect of Whitby, 1968 (published, 197 1); Fiddler's Green, 1968; The Seasons of the Blind, 1968 (published, 1974); ThePoltergoose, 1969 (published, 1973); All Early in the April, 1970 (published, 1974); The Peacock Screamed One Morning, 1970 (published, 1974); Dandelion and Parsnip, Vintage 1920, 1971 (published, .