Composers and their stage works 


Ronald Gow

(1897 - 1993) : English playwright. Born Heaton Moor, Manchester 1 November, 1897. Died 27 April, 1993

Stage Plays

  1. Breakfast at Eight (produced 1920). 1921.
  2. The Sausage (produced n.d.). 1924.
  3. Under the Skull and Bones: A Piratical Play with Songs (produced n.d.). 1929.
  4. Higgins: The Highwayman of Cranford (produced n.d.). 1930.
  5. Henry; or, The House on the Moor (produced n.d.). 1931
  6. Five Robin Hood Plays 1932.
    • The King's Warrant
    • The Sheriffs Kitchen,
    • All on a Summer's Day
    • Robin Goes to Sea
    • The Affair at Kirklees
  7. The Golden West (produced n.d.). 1932.
  8. The Vengeance of the Gang (produced n.d.). 1933.
  9. O.H.M.S. (produced 1933). 1933.
  10. Gallows Glorious (produced 1933; as John Brown, produced 1934). 1933.
  11. My Lady Wears a White Cockade (produced 1934). 1935.
  12. Love on the Dole, adaptation of the novel by Walter Greenwood (produced 1934). 1935.
  13. Compromise. 1935.
  14. The Marrying Sort. 1935.
  15. The Miracle on Watling Street: A Play for the Open Air. 1935.
  16. Men Are Unwise, adaptation of the novel by Ethel Mannin (produced 1937).
  17. Ma's Bit o' Brass, based on the screenplay Lancashire Luck (produced 1938; as Lovejoy's Millions, produced 1938). 1938.
  18. Scuttleboom's Treasure. 1938.
  19. Grannie's a Hundred. 1939.
  20. The Lawyer of Springfield (broadcast 1940). 1949.
  21. Jenny Jones, music by Harry Parr Davies, adaptation of stories by Rhys Davies (produced 1944).
  22. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hardy (produced 1946).
  23. Jassy, adaptation of the novel by Norah Lofts (produced 1947).
  24. Ann Veronica, adaptation of the novel by H.G. Wells (produced 1949). 1951; revised version, with Frank Wells, music by Cyril Ornadel, lyrics by David Croft (produced 1969).
  25. The Full Treatment, with Robert Morley (produced 1953).
  26. The Edwardians, adaptation of the novel by V. Sackville-West (as Weekend in May, produced 1959; as The Edwardians, produced 1959). 1960.
  27. Mr. Rhodes (produced 1961).
  28. A Boston Story, adaptation of the novel Watch and Ward by Henry James (as Watch and Ward, produced 1964; revised version, as A Boston Story, produced 1968). 1969.
  29. This Stratford Business, adaptation of stories by Henry James (produced 1971).
  30. The Friendship of Mrs. Eckley (produced 1975).
  31. The Old Jest, adaptation of the novel by Jennifer Johnston (produced 1980).

Screenplays

  1. The Man Who Changed His Mind, 1928;
  2. The Glittering Sword, 1929;
  3. Southern Roses, 1936;
  4. Lancashire Luck, with A.R. Rawlinson, 1937;
  5. Mr. Smith Carries On, 1937;
  6. Jig Saw, 1942.

Radio Plays

  1. The Lawyer of Springfield, 1940;
  2. Enter, Fanny Kemble, 1940;
  3. Front Line Family series, during World War II;
  4. Mr. Darwin Comes Ashore, 1941;
  5. Patience on a Monument, 1944;
  6. Westward Ho! (serialization), from the novel by Charles Kingsley, 1953;
  7. Lorna Doone (serialization), from the novel by R.D. Blackmore, 1954.

Television Plays