Henry Livings
English dramatist. Born Prestwich, Lancashire 20 September, 1929
Stage Works
- Stop It Whoever You Are (produced 1961)
- Big Soft Nellie (as Thacred Nit, produced 1961; as Big Soft Nellie, produced 1961)
- Nil Carborundum (produced 1962)
- Kelly's Eye (produced 1963)
- There's No Room for You Here for a Start (televised 1963)
- The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon (broadcast 1963; produced 1965)
- Eh? (produced 1964)
- The Little Mrs. Foster Show (produced 1966; revised version, also director: produced 1968)
- Brainscrew (televised 1966; produced 1971)
- Good Grief! (produced 1967)
- Honour and Offer (produced 1968)
- The Gamecock (produced 1969)
- Rattel (produced 1969)
- The Boggart (produced 1970)
- Conciliation (produced 1970)
- The Rifle Volunteer
- Beewine (produced 1970)
- The ffinest (family in the Land (produced 1970)
- You're Free (produced 1970)
- GR UP (televised 1970; produced 1971)
- Mushrooms and Toadstools (produced 1970)
- Tiddles (produced 1970)
- This Jockey Drives Late Nights, adaptation of a play by Tolstoy (produced 1972). 1972; revised version, 1976.
- Daft Sam (televised 1972; produced 1976)
- The Rent Man (produced 1972)
- Cinderella: A Likely Tale, adaptation of the story by Perrault (produced
1972). 1976. - The Tailor's Britches (produced 1973)
- Glorious Miles (televised 1973; produced 1975)
- Jonah (produced 1974). 1975
- Jack and the Beanstalk, music by Alex Glasgow (produced 1974)
- Jug, adaptation of a play by Heinrich von Kleist (produced 1975; revised version produced 1986)
- The Astounding Adventures of Tom Thumb (for children; produced 1979)
- Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It, adaptation of a play by Gogol (produced 1984)
- This Is My Dream: The Life and Times of Josephine Baker (produced 1987)
- The Great Camel Rumbles and Groans and Spits (produced 1988)
- The Public, adaptation of a play by Federico García Lorca (produced 1988)
- The Barber of Seville, adaptation of the play by Beaumarchais (produced 1989)
- Stop the Children's Laughter (produced 1990).
RADIO PLAYS:
- After the Last Lamp, 1961;
- The Weavers, from a play by Hauptmann, 1962;
- The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon, 1963;
- A Public Menace, from the play by Ibsen, 1964;
- Nelson Cape Requests the Pleasure, 1967;
- The Government Inspector, from a play by Gogol, 1969;
- The Dobcross Silver Band (documentary), 1971;
- The Red Cockerel Crows, from a play by Hauptmann, 1974;
- A Most Wonderful Thing, 1976;
- Crab Training, 1979;
- Urn, 1981;
- The Moorcock, 1981.
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- The Arson Squad, 1961;
- Jack's Horrible Luck, 1961;
- There's No Room for You Here for a Start, 1963;
- A Right Crusader, 1963;
- Brainscrew, 1966; GR UP, 1970;
- Daft Sam, 1972;
- Glorious Miles, 1973;
- Shuttlecock, 1976;
- The Game, from the play by Harold Brighouse, 1977;
- The Mayor's Charity, 1977;
- Two Days That Shook the Branch, 1978;
- We Had Some Happy Hours, 1981;
- Another Part of the Jungle and I Met a Man Who Wasn't There (Bulman series), 1985.