Composers and their stage works 

James A. Saunders

Born in Islington, London, January 8, 1925. Died 2004

Stage Works

  1. Cinderella Comes of Age (produced 1949)
  2. Moonshine (produced 1955)
  3. Dog Accident (broadcast 1958; revised version produced 1969)
  4. Barnstable (broadcast 1959; produced 1960)
  5. Alas, Poor Fred: A Duologue in the Style of Ionesco (produced 1959)
  6. The Ark, music by Geoffrey Wright (produced 1959)
  7. Ends and Echoes: Barnstable, Committal, Return to a City (produced 1960)
  8. A Slight Accident (produced 1961)
  9. Double, Double (produced 1962)
  10. Next Time I'll Sing to You, suggested by a theme from A Hermit Disclosed by Raleigh Trevelyan (produced 1962; revised version produced 1963)
  11. Who Was Hilary Maconochie? (produced 1963)
  12. The Pedagogue (produced 1963)
  13. Neighbours (produced 1964)
  14. A Scent of Flowers (produced 1964)
  15. Triangle, with others (produced 1965)
  16. Trio (produced 1967)
  17. The Italian Girl, with Iris Murdoch, adaptation of the novel by Murdoch (produced 1967) 1969
  18. Haven, later called A Man's Best Friend, in We Who Are About to . . ., later called Mixed Doubles (produced 1969)
  19. The Travails of Sancho Panza, based on the novel Don Quixote by Cervantes (produced 1969)
  20. The Borage Pigeon Affair (produced 1969)
  21. Savoury Meringue (produced 1971)
  22. After Liverpool (broadcast 1971; produced 1971)
  23. Games (produced 1971)
  24. Opus (produced 1971)
  25. Hans Kohlhaas, adaptation of the story by Heinrich von Kleist (produced 1972; as Michael Kohlhaas, produced 1987)
  26. Bye Bye Blues (produced 1973)
  27. Poor Old Simon (produced 1973)
  28. Random Moments in a May Garden (broadcast 1974; produced 1977)
  29. A Journey to London, completion of the play by Vanbrugh (produced 1975)
  30. Play for Yesterday (produced 1975)
  31. The Island (produced 1975)
  32. Squat (produced 1976)
  33. Mrs. Scour and the Future of Western Civilisation (produced 1976)
  34. Bodies (produced 1977)1979.
  35. Over the Wall (produced 1977)
  36. Player Piano, adaptation of the novel by Kurt Vonnegut (produced 1978)
  37. The Mountain (produced 1979)
  38. The Caucasian Chalk Circle, adaptation of a play by Brecht (produced 1979)
  39. Birdsong (produced 1979)
  40. The Girl in Melanie Klein, adaptation of the novel by Ronald Harwood (produced 1980)
  41. Fall (produced 1981) 1985.
  42. Nothing to Declare (broadcast 1982; produced 1983)
  43. Menocchio (broadcast 1985)
  44. Redevelopment, adaptation of a play by Václav Havel (produced 1990)
  45. 1990. Making It Better (broadcast 1991; produced 1992)

Radio Plays:

  1. Love and a Limousine, 1952;
  2. The Drop Too Much, 1952;
  3. Nimrod's Oak, 1953;
  4. Women Are So Unreasonable, 1957;
  5. Dog Accident, 1958;
  6. Barnstable, 1959;
  7. Gimlet (version of Double, Double), 1963;
  8. It's Not the Game It Was, 1964;
  9. Pay As You Go, 1965;
  10. After Liverpool, 1971;
  11. Random Moments in a May Garden, 1974;
  12. The Last Black and White Midnight Movie, 1979;
  13. Nothing to Declare, 1982;
  14. The Flower Case, 1982;
  15. A Suspension of Mercy (Murder for Pleasure series), from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, 1983;
  16. Menocchio, 1985;
  17. The Confidential Agent, from the novel by Graham Greene, 1987;
  18. Headlong Hall, from the novel by Thomas Love Peacock, 1988;
  19. Making It Better, 1991.