SHOWS BY NOEL GREIG Show First production Don’t Come The Combination, Brighton (co-‐devised with the company) The Earth Show The Combination, Brighton (co-‐devised by the company with NG) The Hard Times Show The Combination, Brighton (co-‐devised by the company with NG) The Rise and Fall of Tony Banana The Combination, Brighton (co-‐devised with the company) Rocking Chair (dance theatre, The Combination, Brighton (co-‐devised with the company) Swallow Your Leader The Combination, Brighton The NAB show The Combination, Brighton (devised by NG, Steve Gooch and the company) Razzle Dazzle (by NG and John Turner) The Combination, Brighton The Prison Show The General Will Dick Rippitdown The General Will Bring Back the Cat The Combination, Woolwich Tramshed All Het Up Bradford GLF & The General Will Present Your Briefs Bradford GLF and The General Will (Campaign for Homosexual Equality Conference on Law) Men (with Don Milligan) The General Will Date c1968-‐70 c1968-‐70 c1968-‐70 c1968-‐70 c1968-‐70 c1968-‐70 1970 1970 1973 1974 1975 1975 1975 1976 Publication As Time Goes By (with Drew Griffiths) Heroes (with John Turner) Iceberg (group devised by NG with Philip Timmins, Angela Stewart Park, Stephanie Pugsley, Sandra Lester) The Dear Love of Comrades Gay Sweatshop 1977 The Combination, Albany Empire 1977 Gay Sweatshop 1978 Gay Sweatshop 1979 Sexual Outlaw Brixton Fairies, Oval House Angels Descend on Paris The Combination, Albany Empire Blood Green (with Angela Stewart-‐Park) Gay Sweatshop Big Red Nellie Red Bucket (devised with Sue Frumin and Andy Lipman) c1980 The Gorgeous and the Damned New Heart Theatre Co., Oval House Hard Times For Our Times Hampstead Theatre (an adaptation from Charles Dickens) The Barrier Oval House Youth Theatre Poppies Gay Sweatshop (called On Parliament Hill outside Britain) The Story Continues New Heart Theatre, Oval House (co-‐devised with the company) The Great Wendy Red Bucket (devised with Sue Frumin and Andy Lipman) 1981 Spinning a Yarn Rainbow's Ending in Two Gay Sweatshop Plays, 1981, Gay Men’s Press Gay Men’s Press, 1981, and in Gay Sweatshop Four Plays and a Company ed. Philip Osment, Methuen, 1989 1980 1980 1980 1982 1983 1983 Gay Men’s Press, 1983 1983 198? Double Exposure, Drill Hall 1984 Tricycle Youth Theatre 1984 French, 1984 Making Money Red Bucket 1984 (devised with Sue Frumin and Andy Lipman) Do We Ever See Grace? Tricycle Youth Theatre 1985 Best of Friends Perspectives Theatre 1985 Working Hearts Graeae 1986 Laughter from the Other Side Theatre Centre 1986 Dusty Dreamtime Merseyside YPT 1987 Whispers in the Dark Theatre Centre 1987 Broken Armour Theatre Centre 1988 Plague of Innocence Sheffield Crucible TIE 1988 Ministry of Fear (Fear and Miseries of the Third Term) Liverpool Playhouse 1988 Beauty and the Beast Taunton Brewhouse 1988 Familiar Feelings Theatre Centre 1988 (with Kate Owen and Philip Tyler) Paradise Now and Then Gay Sweatshop, The Drill Hall 1989 (devised by NG and the company) The Death of Christopher Marlowe Past Imperfect, 1990 Oval House and St Paul’s Church, Deptford Govan Stories 7:84 Scotland 1990 (contributing writer) Final Cargo Major Road, 1991 Sheffield Leadmill Cambridge University Press, 1998 in Gay Plays 5, Methuen, 1994 Dramascripts Extra, 1994 The Lie of the Land Jump the Life to Come The Good Sisters (a translation from Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles Souers) Dead Heroic He Is Ours (Antigones project) Dreaming It Up Travellers on the Merry-‐go-‐Round He Is Ours Again Stairway to Heaven Hood in the Wood Help Theatre Centre 1991 7:84 Scotland 1991 Sheffield Crucible 1991 1992 RSC Education, The Other Place 1992 Theatre Centre TAG TIE (Glasgow Citizens) 1992 Eastwood Arts Festival 1993 Rose Bruford College, Bridge Lane Theatre 1993 1993 Shared Experience Roundabout, Nottingham 1994 in Tin Soldier and Other Plays for Children, Aurora Metro, 2009 Epping Forest Art dept., Loughton College 1994 Roundabout at Nottingham Playhouse 1995 Soho Theatre Commission 1995 Theatreworks, Singapore 1995 Atlantic Crossings/Prairie Exchange Theatre, Winnipeg Heart of Ice Gibraltar Point The Gift Only Children (with Libby Mason) 1995 Pressure Cooked Gifts for a Garden with music by Michael Szpakowski Common Heaven End of Season Eye Test Epping Forest Art dept., Copped Hall Royal Court YPT Epping Forest Art dept., the Gibberd Garden, Harlow 1997 Theatre Centre 1997 Red Ladder 1997 1998 Alice Picture Me At Break of Day In Full Flow Always a Bridesmaid Brave Swimmer Trashed Nineteen Fifty Three Lazy Eyes Heelz on Wheelz Brand New World Epping Forest Art dept., Loughton College Nottingham Playhouse (with Graeae) Red Ladder 1999 Nomad Theatre, Hong Kong Festival 2000 French’s, 2003 Age Exchange 2000 Radio 4 2001 Radio 4 2002 Theatre Centre 2004 -‐-‐ 2005-‐6 ?? The Necessary Stage 2006 Fittings Theatre, Liverpool c2007 Commissioned by Live Theatre, Newcastle2007 A Time and a Place 1996 1996 1998 Aurora Metro, 2004 A Tasty Tale Tangere Arts 2007 in Tin Soldier and Other Plays for Children, Aurora Metro, 2009 Tin Soldier Tangere Arts 2009 in Tin Soldier and Other Plays for Children, Aurora Metro, 2009 Noel Greig was interviewed by the project Unfinished Histories: Recording the History of the Alternative Theatre Movement in 2008. For details of the project, Noel’s interview and where to view the full 5-‐hour interview go to: www.unfinishedhistories.com Writings on playwriting by Noel Greig: Playwriting: A Practical Guide by Noel Greig (Routledge, 2005) Young People New Theatre: A Practical Guide to an Intercultural Procees by Noel Greig (Routledge, 2008) UNDATED OR UNPRODUCED SCRIPTS Biggles and Algy The Sissies Daydreams C1984-‐8 All Save Hannah Fair Swap Commissioned by Capital Radio Flying into Sunset 2001 Raising Roger A play about Roger Casement?? 1991 Stone of the Heart ALSO Scenarios and Storylines This includes numerous short pieces). It is possible that some of these were used in cabaret shows listed above where no specific script has been kept. They include: a TV monologue, 1997 Fanfare with Kazzoos (from All Het Up [?]) Never Too Late, 1994 Your Mother Should Know 1982 Listen to the Bough Break (or several alternative titles) Storyline proposal 1991 What’s Queer in Russian? with Gary Yershon) The Lady Director The End of the Pier Dream days The Dinner Lady Love and Marriage (2 versions) A Short Life (TV) Cherry on the Top The Old Folk Untitled inc. sketch called Weather and scene featuring Jocelyn (handwritten) Untitled (Re Sheffield High School for Girls) + several others -‐ detailed list later Unfinished Scripts As well as those listed in the chart above, these include: Moving In – a 2 page scene Somewhere to Sit (aka Chairs or Taking a Place) 2 act, Bradford-‐based play about Asians and a white working class family, w NG’s self-‐critiques/ notes Crowning Glory – an opera, 1977 The Comet, with notes from RSC Literary Manager Colin Chambers (on mollyhouses) Another Day, with John Binnie, 1997
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