Composers and their stage works 


Richard (Arthur) Crane

Born in York, December 4, 1944

Plays:

  1. Footlights Revue, with others (produced 1966).
  2. Three Ugly Women (produced 1967).
  3. The Tenant (produced 1971).
  4. Crippen (produced 1971).
  5. Tom Brown (produced 1971).
  6. Decent Things (produced 1972).
  7. The Blood Stream (produced 1972).
  8. Mutiny on the Bounty, music by Chris Mitchell (produced 1972; revised version produced 1980).
  9. Bleak Midwinter (produced 1972).
  10. David, King of the Jews, music by Chris Mitchell (produced 1973).
  11. Thunder: A Play of the Brontës (produced 1973). 1976.
  12. Examination in Progress (produced 1973).
  13. Secrets (produced 1973).
  14. The Pied Piper, music by Chris Mitchell (produced 1973).
  15. The Quest, music by Chris Mitchell (produced 1974).
  16. The Route of All Evil (produced 1974).
  17. Humbug; or, Christmas Carol Backwards, music by Milton Reame-James (produced 1974).
  18. Mystery Plays (produced 1974).
  19. The King (produced 1974).
  20. The Bradford Revue (produced 1974).
  21. Mean Time (produced 1975).
  22. Venus and Superkid (for children), music by Milton Reame-James (produced 1975).
  23. Clownmaker (produced 1975).
  24. Bloody Neighbours (produced 1975).
  25. Manchester Tales (produced 1975).
  26. Gunslinger: A Wild West Show, music by Joss Buckley (produced 1976). 1979.
  27. Nero and the Golden House (produced 1976).
  28. The Perils of Bardfrod, with David Edgar (produced 1976).
  29. Satan's Ball, adaptation of a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov (produced 1977).
  30. Gogol (produced 1978).
  31. Vanity, adaptation of Eugene Onegin by Pushkin (produced 1980).
  32. Sand (produced 1981).
  33. The Brothers Karamazov, adaptation of a novel by Dostoevsky (produced 1981).
  34. Burke and Hare (produced 1983).
  35. The Possessed, with Yuri Lyubimov, adaptation of a novel by Dostoevsky (produced 1985).
  36. Mutiny!, with David Essex, music by Essex (produced 1985).
  37. Envy, adaptation of a novel by Yuri Olesha (produced 1986).
  38. Soldier Soldier, adaptation of a work by Tony Parker (produced 1986).
  39. Pushkin (produced 1987).
  40. Red Magic (produced 1988).
  41. Rolling the Stone (produced 1989).
  42. Phaedra, with Michael Glenny, adaptation of the play by Marina Tsvetayeva (produced 1990).
  43. Baggage and Bombshells (produced 1991).
  44. Under the Stars (produced 1993).

Screenplays:

  • Sebastian and the Seawitch (for children), 1976.

Radio Plays:

  • Optimistic Tragedy, with Faynia Williams, adaptation of the play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky, 1986;
  • Anna and Marina, 1991;
  • Plutopia, music by Donald Swann, 1992;
  • Understudies, 1992.

Television Plays:

  • Nice Time series, 1968-69;
  • The Billy West Show, 1970;
  • Rottingdean, 1980;
  • The Possessed, with Yuri Lyubimov, 1986.