DAVID RUDKIN Playwright and Screenwriter

STAGE:

1962 AFORE NIGHT COME RSC Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award Penguin Books: New English English Dramatists vol 7; Oberon Books

1965 MOSES AND AARON Singers’ translation of libretto; opera by Schoenberg: Covent Garden Friends of Covent Garden

1966 SUN INTO DARKNESS Scenario for Western Theatre Ballet, Sadler’s Wells

1968 BURGLARS Children’s play: Oval Theatre; ICA; Unicorn Theatre, London Hutchison: Prompt vol. 2

1972 THE FILTH HUNT One-act stage play: InterAction, Almost Free Theatre, London

1973 ASHES First performed in German at Stadtsteater Hamburg; in English, Open Space Theatre, London New York OBIE Pluto Press; Samuel French, New York; Talon Books, Canada

1974 NO TITLE Stage adaptation of TV play ‘House of Character’: Birmingham Repertory

1975 THE SONS OF LIGHT Stage play (first written 1964-64): Tyneside Theatre Company, Newcastle; final version, RSC Stratford Methuen

1977 SOVEREIGNTY UNDER One-act stage play: InterAction, ELIZABETH Almost Free Theatre, London

1978 Translation of : RSC Stratford Heinemann

1980 HANSEL AND GRETEL Stage play: RSC Stratford; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London

1981 THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH Stage play (written 1976): Birmingham Repertory, Actors’ Centre, London Methuen

1982 Translation of Ibsen: RSC Stratford Methuen; Oberon Books

1983 SPACE INVADERS One-act stage play: RSC Youth Festival, Stratford

1984 WILL’S WAY One-act one-hander for : RSC Youth Festival, Stratford Celandine Press

1986 THE SAXON SHORE Stage play: , London Methuen.

1987 DEATHWATCH and Translation of Genet: RSC London THE MAIDS

1990 WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN Translation of Ibsen: Almeida Theatre, London Absolute Press; Oberon Books

1991 JOHN PIPER IN THE Stage play (first written 1984) HOUSE OF DEATH after Defoe Journal of the Plague Year : Embassy Studio, Central School of Speech and Drama, London

(1992) SYMPHONIE PATHETIQUE Stage play: commissioned for centenary of Tchaikovsky’s death November 1993: so far unproduced

1997 ROSMERSHOLM Translation of Ibsen (written 1988): Studio Theatre, Wimbledon Oberon Books

(1997) TRADE Stage play set in ‘house with boys’; so far unproduced

2003 RED SUN Stage play: commissioned by two-man company AJTC: toured

2004 Adaptation of Bulgakov for National Youth Theatre

2009 MERLIN UNCHAINED Stage play: Theatr y Castell, Aberystwyth

TELEVISION:

1963 THE STONE DANCE ATV

1967 CHILDREN PLAYING ATV

1968 HOUSE OF CHARACTER BBC

1969 BLODWEN, HOME FROM BBC RACHEL’S MARRIAGE

1972 BYPASS BBC

1973 ATROCITY BBC

1974 PENDA’S FEN BBC Davis Poynter

1974 PRITAN and THE COMING Episodes for BBC series OF THE CROSS Churchill’s People

1975 THE ASH TREE Adaptation from MR James: BBC

1980 THE LIVING GRAVE For BBC series Leap in the Dark

1981 ARTEMIS 81 BBC

1983 ACROSS THE WATER BBC

1987 WHITE LADY Also directed: BBC

1991 GAWAIN AND THE Adaptation: Thames TV GREEN KNIGHT

RADIO:

1959 NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE

1965 THE PERSIANS Translation of

1967 GEAR CHANGE

1973 CRIES FROM CASEMENT AS BBC Publications HIS BONES ARE BROUGHT TO DUBLIN

1974 HECUBA Translation of Euripides

1993 THE LOVESONG OF ALFRED A ‘film for radio’: BBC Radio 3 J HITCHCOCK Sony Silver Medal

1994 THE HAUNTING OF MAHLER BBC Radio 3

2005 THE GIANT’S CAUSE . . . BBC Radio 4 Belfast

FILM:

1966 MADEMOISELLE Additional work (uncredited) on original Genet script: Woodfall Films, dir. Tony Richardson.

1966 FAHRENHEIT 451 Additional screenplay work (uncredited): MCA, dir. François Truffaut

1988 TESTIMONY Original screenplay, after Volkov memoirs of Shostakovich: Isolde Films, dir. Tony Palmer New York Film Festival Gold Medal screenplay award

1989 DECEMBER BRIDE Screenplay from novel by Sam Hanna Bell: Little Bird films, dir. Thaddeus O’Sullivan European Film Festival Jury Special Award

1997 THE WOODLANDERS Screenplay from novel by : River Films, dir. Phil Agland

OPERA and MUSIC THEATRE:

1969 THE GRACE OF TODD Original libretto; comic opera by : Aldeburgh Festival Oxford University Press

1992 BROKEN STRINGS Libretto (after a traditional Buddhist tale) for music theatre by Param Vir: Opera with ; Almeida Music Festival, London; etc Scottish Opera programme book

2008 BLACK FEATHER RISING Libretto (after a Native American legend) for music-theatre by Param Vir: commissioned by Stichting Octopus, Netherlands; toured in Holland Stichting Octopus programme book

BOOK:

2004 VAMPYR monograph on Carl Th. Dreyer film (1932) for BFI Film Classics series

IN DEVELOPMENT:

TEN PLACE-PRINTS Journeys into Haunted Landscapes for Voices and Sound. A sequence of ten audio-pieces for MP3 or the like

MACEDONIA radio play: the aging Euripides, self- exiled to the Northern wilds, begins to dream one last great play, The Bacchae

Also ongoing collections of novellas and short-stories