James A. Saunders
Born in Islington, London, January 8, 1925. Died 2004
Stage Works
- Cinderella Comes of Age (produced 1949)
- Moonshine (produced 1955)
- Dog Accident (broadcast 1958; revised version produced 1969)
- Barnstable (broadcast 1959; produced 1960)
- Alas, Poor Fred: A Duologue in the Style of Ionesco (produced 1959)
- The Ark, music by Geoffrey Wright (produced 1959)
- Ends and Echoes: Barnstable, Committal, Return to a City (produced 1960)
- A Slight Accident (produced 1961)
- Double, Double (produced 1962)
- Next Time I'll Sing to You, suggested by a theme from A Hermit Disclosed by Raleigh Trevelyan (produced 1962; revised version produced 1963)
- Who Was Hilary Maconochie? (produced 1963)
- The Pedagogue (produced 1963)
- Neighbours (produced 1964)
- A Scent of Flowers (produced 1964)
- Triangle, with others (produced 1965)
- Trio (produced 1967)
- The Italian Girl, with Iris Murdoch, adaptation of the novel by Murdoch (produced 1967) 1969
- Haven, later called A Man's Best Friend, in We Who Are About to . . ., later called Mixed Doubles (produced 1969)
- The Travails of Sancho Panza, based on the novel Don Quixote by Cervantes (produced 1969)
- The Borage Pigeon Affair (produced 1969)
- Savoury Meringue (produced 1971)
- After Liverpool (broadcast 1971; produced 1971)
- Games (produced 1971)
- Opus (produced 1971)
- Hans Kohlhaas, adaptation of the story by Heinrich von Kleist (produced 1972; as Michael Kohlhaas, produced 1987)
- Bye Bye Blues (produced 1973)
- Poor Old Simon (produced 1973)
- Random Moments in a May Garden (broadcast 1974; produced 1977)
- A Journey to London, completion of the play by Vanbrugh (produced 1975)
- Play for Yesterday (produced 1975)
- The Island (produced 1975)
- Squat (produced 1976)
- Mrs. Scour and the Future of Western Civilisation (produced 1976)
- Bodies (produced 1977)1979.
- Over the Wall (produced 1977)
- Player Piano, adaptation of the novel by Kurt Vonnegut (produced 1978)
- The Mountain (produced 1979)
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle, adaptation of a play by Brecht (produced 1979)
- Birdsong (produced 1979)
- The Girl in Melanie Klein, adaptation of the novel by Ronald Harwood (produced 1980)
- Fall (produced 1981) 1985.
- Nothing to Declare (broadcast 1982; produced 1983)
- Menocchio (broadcast 1985)
- Redevelopment, adaptation of a play by Václav Havel (produced 1990)
- 1990. Making It Better (broadcast 1991; produced 1992)
Radio Plays:
- Love and a Limousine, 1952;
- The Drop Too Much, 1952;
- Nimrod's Oak, 1953;
- Women Are So Unreasonable, 1957;
- Dog Accident, 1958;
- Barnstable, 1959;
- Gimlet (version of Double, Double), 1963;
- It's Not the Game It Was, 1964;
- Pay As You Go, 1965;
- After Liverpool, 1971;
- Random Moments in a May Garden, 1974;
- The Last Black and White Midnight Movie, 1979;
- Nothing to Declare, 1982;
- The Flower Case, 1982;
- A Suspension of Mercy (Murder for Pleasure series), from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, 1983;
- Menocchio, 1985;
- The Confidential Agent, from the novel by Graham Greene, 1987;
- Headlong Hall, from the novel by Thomas Love Peacock, 1988;
- Making It Better, 1991.