Composers and their stage works 


Christopher FRY

pseudonym of Christopher Hammond

English translator and dramatist: Born Bristol 18 December, 1907 : playwright: born Bristol 18 December 1907; FRSL 1962; married 1935 Phyllis Hart (died 1987; one son); died Chichester, West Sussex 30 June 2005.

Stage Works

  1. Youth and the Peregrines (produced 1934).
  2. She Shall Have Music (lyrics only, with Ronald Frankau), book by Frank Eyton, music by Fry and Monte Crick (produced 1934).
  3. To Sea in a Sieve (as Christopher Harris) (revue; produced 1935).
  4. Open Door (produced 1936). n.d.
  5. The Boy with a Cart: Cuthman, Saint of Sussex (produced 1938)
  6. The Tower (produced 1939).
  7. Thursday's Child: A Pageant, music by Martin Shaw (produced 1939)
  8. A Phoenix Too Frequent (produced 1946)
  9. The Firstborn (broadcast 1947; produced 1948); revised version (produced 1952)
  10. The Lady's Not for Burning (produced 1948); revised version, 1950.
  11. Thor, With Angels (produced 1948)
  12. Venus Observed (produced 1950)
  13. Ring round the Moon: A Charade with Music, adaptation of a play by Jean Anouilh (produced 1950)
  14. A Sleep of Prisoners (produced 1951)
  15. The Dark Is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy (produced 1954)
  16. The Lark, adaptation of a play by Jean Anouilh (produced 1955)
  17. Tiger at the Gates, adaptation of a play by Jean Giraudoux (produced 1955); as The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (produced 1983)
  18. Duel of Angels, adaptation of a play by Jean Giraudoux (produced 1958)
  19. Curtmantle (produced in Dutch, 1961)
  20. Judith, adaptation of a play by Jean Giraudoux (produced 1962)
  21. The Bible: Original Screenplay, assisted by Jonathan Griffin. 1966.
  22. Peer Gynt, adaptation of the play by Ibsen (produced 1970)
  23. A Yard of Sun: A Summer Comedy (produced 1970)
  24. The Brontës of Haworth (televised 1973)
  25. Cyrano de Bergerac, adaptation of the play by Edmond Rostand (produced 1975)
  26. Paradise Lost, music by Penderecki, adaptation of the poem by Milton (produced 1978)
  27. One Thing More; or, Caedmon Construed (produced 1986). 1987.
  28. The Seasons, poems to accompany Julie Cooper's adaptation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (produced 1990)
  29. A Journey into Light, music by Robert Walker (produced 1992)

SCREENPLAYS:

  • The Beggar's Opera, with Denis Carman, 1953;
  • A Queen Is Crowned (documentary), 1953
  • Ben Hur, 1959;
  • Barabbas, 1962;
  • The Bible: In the Beginning, 1966.

RADIO PLAYS: for Children's Hour series, 1939-40;

  • The Firstborn, 1947;
  • Rhineland journey, 1948.

TELEVISION PLAYS:

  • The Canary, 1950;
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1968;
  • The Brontës of Haworth (four plays), 1973;
  • The Best of Enemies, 1976;
  • Sister Dora, from the book by Jo Manton, 1977.

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION:

Harvard University Theatre Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts.