DAVID RUDKIN Playwright and Screenwriter
STAGE:
1962 AFORE NIGHT COME RSC London 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 HIPPOLYTUS Translation of Euripides: 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 PEER GYNT 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 William Shakespeare: RSC Youth Festival, Stratford Celandine Press
1986 THE SAXON SHORE Stage play: Almeida Theatre, 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 THE MASTER AND MARGARITA 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 Aeschylus
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 screenplay 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 Thomas Hardy: River Films, dir. Phil Agland
OPERA and MUSIC THEATRE:
1969 THE GRACE OF TODD Original libretto; comic opera by Gordon Crosse: Aldeburgh Festival Oxford University Press
1992 BROKEN STRINGS Libretto (after a traditional Buddhist tale) for music theatre by Param Vir: Netherlands Opera with Munich Biennale; 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