Bryony Lavery
Born Wakefield, Yorkshire December 21, 1947
PLAYS:
- Of All Living (Produced 1967)
- Days at Court (Produced 1968)
- Warbeck (produced 1969)
- I Was Too Young at the Time to Understand Why My Mother Was Crying (produced 1976)
- Sharing (produced 1976)
- Germany Calling, with Peter Leabourne (produced 1976)
- Grandmother's Footsteps (produced 1977)
- Snakes (produced 1977)
- The Catering Service (produced 1977)
- Floorshow, with others (produced 1978)
- Helen and Her Friends (produced 1978)
- Bag (produced 1979)
- Time, Gentlemen, Please (cabaret; produced 1979)
- The Wild Bunch (for children; produced 1979)
- Sugar and Spice (for children; produced 1979)
- Unemployment: An Occupational Hazard? (for children; produced 1979)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, adaptation of the novel by Anita Loos (produced 1980)
- The Joker (for children; produced 1980)
- The Family Album ( produced 1980)
- Pamela Stephenson One Woman Show (cabaret; produced 1981)
- Missing ( produced 1981)
- Zulu, with Patrick Barlow (produced 1981)
- Female Trouble (cabaret; produced 1981)
- The Black Hole of Calcutta, with Patrick Barlow (produced 1982)
- Götterdämmerung; or, Twilight of the Gods, with Patrick Barlow and Susan Todd (produced 1982)
- For Maggie, Betty and Ida, music by Paul Sand (produced 1982)
- More Female Trouble (cabaret), music by Caroline Noh (produced 1982)
- Uniform and Uniformed, and Numerical Man (broadcast 1983)
- Hot Time (produced 1984)
- Calamity (produced 1984)
- Origin of the Species (produced 1984)
- The Wandsworth Warmers (cabaret; produced 1984)
- The Zulu Hut Club (for children; produced 1984)
- The Wandsworth Warmers Christmas Carol Concert (cabaret; produced 1985)
- Over and Out ( produced 1985)
- Witchcraze (produced 1985)
- Getting Through (additional lyrics only), by Nona Shepphard, music by Helen Glavin (produced 1985)
- The Wandsworth Warmers in Unbridled Passions (cabaret; produced 1986)
- Sore Points (for children; produced 1986)
- Mummy, with Sally Owen and L. Ortolja (produced 1987)
- Madagascar (for children; produced 1987)
- The Headless Body, music by Stephanie Nunn (produced 1987)
- The Dragon Wakes (for children; produced 1988)
- Puppet States (produced 1988)
- The Drury Lane Ghost, with Nona Shepphard (produced 1989)
- Two Marias (produced 1989)
- Wicked (produced 1990)
- Her Aching Heart (produced 1990)
- Kitchen Matters (produced 1990)
- Flight (produced 1991)
- Peter Pan, with Nona Shepphard (produced 1991)
- The Sleeping Beauty, with Nona Shepphard (produced 1992)
- The Way to Cook a Wolf (produced 1993)
RADIO PLAYS:
- Fire the Life-Giver, 1979;
- Changes at Work series, 1980;
- Let's Get Dressed, 1982;
- Uniform and Uniformed, 1983;
- Numerical Man, 1983;
- Magical Beasts, 1987;
- Cliffhanger series, 1990;
- Laying Ghosts, 1992.
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- Revolting Women series, with others, 1981;
- Rita of the Rovers, 1989;
- The Cab Wars, 1989.
- Video: The Lift, 1988;
- Twelve Dancing Princesses, 1989.
CRITICAL STUDY:
- "But Will Men Like It; or, Living as a Feminist Writer Without Committing Murder" by Lavery, in Women and Theatre edited by Susan Todd, 1984.
THEATRICAL ACTIVITIES
DIRECTOR: Plays-most of her own plays; More Female Trouble (revival), 1983; Homelands: Under Exposure by Lisa Evans, and The Mrs. Docherties by Nona Shepphard (co-director, with Shepphard), 1985; Hotel Destiny by Tasha Fairbanks, 1987.