The plays we represent

An A-Z listing of dramatists/translators and the works for which we handle stage rights.

We handle stage rights in the following plays, listed in alphabetical order by dramatist/translator.

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David BARRETT

Translations of the works of Aristophanes:

The Assembly Women 
The Birds 
The Frogs                                              
The Wasps                                 
The Poet and the Women                 


Brendan BEHAN

The Hostage 
The Quare Fellow 
Borstal Boy adapted by Frank McMahon
Moving Out 
A Garden Party 
The Big House 

For information on other adaptations based on Behan’s works, please contact us directly.


T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party           
The Family Reunion 
Murder In The Cathedral 
The Rock
Sweeney Agonistes
The Confidential Clerk 
The Elder Statesman 


St John ERVINE

Anthony & Anna
Boyd’s Shop
The First Mrs Fraser
Progress
Friends & Relations
Jane Clegg
The Lady of Belmont
Mary Mary Quite Contrary
People of Our Class
Private Enterprise
Robert’s Wife
The Ship
My Brother Tom
The Christies
The Magnanimous Lover 
Ole George Comes To Tea 
She Was No Lady  


Elisaveta FEN

Translations of works of Chekhov:

The Bear  
The Cherry Orchard  
Ivanov  
A Jubilee  
The Proposal  
The Seagull  
Three Sisters  
Uncle Vanya  


Rose Fyleman

Eight Little Plays for Children:

Cabbages and Kings
Darby and Joan
The Fairy Riddle
The Fairy and the Doll
Father Christmas
In Acardy
Noughts and Crosses
The Weather Clerk

The Golden Chain                                          
Happy Families          

The Magic Pencil:

The Carpet of Truth
The Chestnut Man
Captain Marwhopple
A Legend of St Nicholas
The Magic Pencil                                            
The Rhyming Prince
The Three Princesses
Troodle

Nine New Plays for Children:             :

Cinderella at Home
Father Christmas Comes to Supper
The Moon
The Sampler
Sleeping Beauty
Surprise
The Test
Three Naughty Imps
The Whisker

Seven Little Plays for Children:                      .

The Armchair
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestickmaker
The Coming of Father Christmas
The Mermaid
Mother Goose’s Party
Peter Coffin
The Princess and the Pirate

Six Longer Plays for Children:             .

The Angry Brownies
The Bear
The Gus-Plug
Pork-Pie Night
Porridge
Snow White


Harley GRANVILLE BARKER

Agnes Colander 
Farewell to the Theatre           
His Majesty     
The Madras House                   
The Marrying of Ann Leete                             
The Morris Dance (A Version of Stevenson’s The Wrong Box) 
Rococo           
The Secret Life            
Vote By Ballot 
The Voysey Inheritance          
Waste  

Translations Of Works Of Sacha Guitry:

Eburau 

Translations Of Works Of Jules Romains:

Dr. Knock 
Six Gentlemen In A Row      

Translations Of Works Of Arthur Schnitzler:

Ask No Questions       
A Christmas Present   
Dying Pangs 
An Episode     
A Farewell Supper 
Keepsakes 
The Wedding Morning  

Harley GRANVILLE BARKER and Dion Clayton CALTHROP

The Harlequinade 

Harley GRANVILLE BARKER and Helen GRANVILLE BARKER

Translations of works of Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero:

Don Abel Wrote A Tragedy 
Dona Clarines                                     
Fortunato                                            
A Hundred Years Old 
A Hundred Years Old 
(Welsh version by Mary Hughes)
The Lady from Alfaqueque 
Love Passes By                                   
Peace and Quiet                                 
The Women have their Way     
The Women have their Way 
(Welsh version by Mary Hughes)

Translations of works of Gregorio Martinez Sierra:

The Kingdom of God                          
A Lily Among Thorns                          
The Romantic Young Lady 
Take Two from One 
The Two Shepherds 
Wife to a Famous Man                     


Robert KEMP

Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaites 
The Asset 
Conspirators 
The Heart is Highland 
Highland Fling 
In Pastures Green 
The King of Scots 
The Laird O’Grippy
Off a Duck’s Back 
Place de la Victoire 
Polonaise 
The Rose Street Wake 
The Saxon Saint 
Scotch on the Rocks 
What the Stars Foretell  


John MASEFIELD

Bernice           
The Coming of Christ              
Easter   
End and Beginning     
Esther   
The Faithful                
Good Friday    
The Hour Strikes                     
A King’s Daughter                  
Melloney Hotspur                     
A Play of St. George                           
Penelope                     
Philip the King              
The Tragedy of Pompey the Great        
The Tragedy of Nan      
The Trial of Jesus         
Tristan and Isolt                     
The Wild Swan             


Edward MURCH

Rate for all plays £20 per performance.

The Dipper     
No Name in the Street  
The Poet of Goosey Fair                    
Tell it to the Wind                      
The Beggars of Bordeaux       
The Last Blue Mountain          
Saint Germaine           
Wit’s End


Bernard SHAW

The Admirable Bashville                                             
Androcles and the Lion                         
Annajanska                   
The Apple Cart           
Arms and the Man                    
Augustus Does His Bit                          
BACK TO METHUSALEH – A cycle of five plays:
          Part One: In the Beginning                   
          Part Two: The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas           
          Part Three: The Thing Happens            
          Part Four: Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman                           
          Part Five: As Far as Thought Can Reach                     
Buoyant Billions         
Caesar and Cleopatra              
Candida                        
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion                   
Cymbeline Refinished       
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets                            
The Devil’s Disciple                  
The Doctor’s Dilemma              
Don Juan in Hell  
Fanny’s First Play         
Far-Fetched Fables    
The Fascinating Foundling                   
Geneva                         
Getting Married 
The Glimpse of Reality                          
Great Catherine                        
Heartbreak House                    
How He Lied to Her Husband                          
The Inca of Perusalem                                    
In Good King Charles’s Golden Days                          
Jitta’s Atonement                      
John Bull’s Other Island                       
Major Barbara                         
Man and Superman  [Act three is generally omitted and may be performed separately as Don Juan In Hell]
The Man of Destiny                   
The Millionairess          
Misalliance        
Mrs Warren’s Profession                                  
The Music-Cure            
O’Flaherty VC
On the Rocks   
Overruled         
Passion Poison and Petrifion   
The Philanderer                        
Press Cuttings                           
Pygmalion                    
Saint Joan      
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet                    
The Simpleton of The Unexpected Isles             
The Six of Calais                                 
Too True to be Good                
Village Wooing                                     
Why She Would Not                  
Widowers’ Houses                    
You Never Can Tell 


Alan H. SOMMERSTEIN

Translations of works of Aristophanes:

The Archanians  
The Clouds  
The Knights   
Lysistrata  
Peace  
Wealth  


Philip VELLACOTT

Translations of works of Aeschylus:

THE ORESTEIAN TRILOGY:
          Agamemnon                            
          The Choephori                        
          The Eumenides                       
Prometheus Bound                 
The Persians                           
Seven Against Thebes                         
The Suppliants                        

Translations of works of Euripides:

Alcestis                                                                                               
Iphigenia in Tauris                 
Hippolytus                              
The Bacchae                             
Ion                                             
The Women of Troy                 
Helen                                         
Medea                                       
Hecabe                                                 
Electra                                      
Heracles                                    
Orestes                                       
The Children of Heracles           
Andromache                              
The Suppliant Woman                
The Phoenician Women             
Iphigenia in Aulis                      

Translations of works of Menander:

Dyskolos (The Bad-Tempered Man)       
Periceiromene (The Unkindest Cut)       
Epitrepontes (The Arbitration)               
The Samian Woman                               
The Hero                                               
The Farmer                                            
The Sycyonian   


E. F. WATLING

Translations of works of Aristophanes:

The Acharnians                      
The Clouds                             

Translations of works of Carlo Goldoni:

A Story I Heard                         
The Summer Holiday               

Translations of works of Plautus:

Amphitryo   
The Brothers Menaechmus   
The Ghost  
The Pot of Gold  
The Prisoners  
Pseudolus  
The Rope  
The Swaggering Soldier  
A Three Dollar Day  

Translations of works of Seneca:

Thyestes   
Phaedra  
The Trojan Women  
Oedipus  
Octavia  

Translations of works of Sophocles:

Ajax  
Antigone  
Electra  
King Oedipus  
Oedipus at Colonus  
Philoctetes  
Women of Trachis  

Translations of works of Charles Vildrac

S S Tenacity  


John WOOD

Translations of works of Beaumarchais: 

The Barber of Seville  
The Marriage of Figaro  

Translations of works of Molière:

A Doctor in Spite of Himself  
Don Juan  
The Imaginary Invalid  
Love’s the Best Doctor  
The Misanthrope  
The Miser  
The Sicilian  
Tartuffe  
That Scoundrel Scapin  
The Would-Be Gentleman