"the Moon"". Stoppard has written one novel, ""Lord Malquist and Mr Moon"" (1966), set in contemporary London. Its cast includes the 18th-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ineffectual Boswell, Moon, and also cowboys, a lion (banned from the Ritz) and a donkey-borne Irishman claiming to be the Risen Christ. In the 1980s, in addition to writing his own works, Stoppard translated many plays into English, including works by Sławomir Mrożek, Johann Nestroy, Arthur Schnitzler, and Václav Havel. It was at this time that Stoppard became influenced by the works of Polish and Czech absurdists. He has been co-opted"
"Pip Utton Pip Utton is a British actor and playwright. Utton was born 15 February 1952, raised and educated in Cannock. He authored the award-winning ""Adolf"", ""Chaplin"" and ""Only The Lonely"". As one of the leading solo performers in the United Kingdom, most of his plays are monodramas, performable by a single actor. Utton won the top award at the 2006 Thespis 5th International Monodrama Festival performing ""Bacon"" written by Utton and Jeremy Towler. He is based at the Merlin Theatre in Frome, Somerset. He is a regular performer at the Edinburgh Fringe and tours internationally, in part supported by"
"A play, ""The Libertine"" (1994), was written by Stephen Jeffreys, and staged by the Royal Court Theatre. The 2004 film ""The Libertine"", based on Jeffreys' play, starred Johnny Depp as Rochester, Samantha Morton as Elizabeth Barry, John Malkovich as King Charles II and Rosamund Pike as Elizabeth Malet. Michael Nyman set to music an excerpt of Rochester's poem ""Signor Dildo"" for the film. Rochester is the central character in Anna Lieff Saxby's 1996 erotic novella, ""No Paradise but Pleasure"". The story of Lord Rochester’s life in Susan Cooper-Bridgewater’s Historical Fiction ""‘Of Ink, Wit and Intrigue"" – ""Lord Rochester in Chains"
"Press. The book was written by John Sullivan's son, Jim Sullivan. Two board games based on the show were released: a Monopoly-style game, the """"Trotters Trading Game"""", in which participants attempt to emulate the Trotters and become millionaires, and another game set in their local pub, entitled the """"Nag's Head Board Game"""". ""Only Fools and Horses"" is one of the UK's most popular sitcoms. It was among the ten most-watched television shows of the year in the UK in 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2002 and 2003. The 1996 Christmas trilogy of ""Heroes and Villains"", ""Modern Men"""
"London stage. He also adapted the Harold Brighouse play 'Hobson's Choice' for the screen in 1954. He died in Norwich on 19 February 1964. Wynyard Browne Wynyard Barry Browne (6 October 1911 – 19 February 1964) was an English dramiatist and playwright. He was born in London in 1911, and educated at Marlborough and Christ's College, Cambridge. His plays include 'The Holly and the Ivy', which was first produced at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1950 and was later made into a film, for which he wrote the screenplay. His first play was 'Dark Summer' and other works include"
"July 2018, John Sullivan's son, Jim Sullivan, announced that an ""Only Fools and Horses"" musical was nearing completion and is due to launch on 9 February 2019 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter (played by David Jason), a fast-talking, archetypal South London 'fly' trader, lives in a council flat in a high-rise tower block, Nelson Mandela House, in Peckham, South London, with his much younger brother, Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lyndhurst), and their elderly Grandad (Lennard Pearce). Their mother, Joan, died when Rodney was young, and their father Reg absconded soon afterwards, so Del became Rodney's surrogate"
"Hamilton"". Patrick Hamilton (writer) Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in ""The Times"" in 1968: ""Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected"". His two most successful plays, ""Rope"", and ""Gas Light"" were made into famous"
"and Jim, a daughter, Amy and three grandchildren. Sullivan wrote (and in two cases sang) the theme tunes for ""Only Fools and Horses"", ""Just Good Friends"", ""Dear John"" and ""The Green Green Grass"". John Sullivan (writer) John Richard Thomas Sullivan OBE (23 December 1946 – 22 April 2011) was an English television scriptwriter responsible for several British sitcoms, including ""Only Fools and Horses"", ""Citizen Smith"" and ""Just Good Friends"". John Sullivan was born at 35 Zennor Road, Balham, London, on 23 December 1946. His Irish-born father was John Patrick Sullivan, (17 March 1908-September 1993), a plumber, and his mother was"
"Ben Jonson Benjamin Jonson (""c"". 11 June 1572 – ""c"". 16 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays ""Every Man in His Humour"" (1598), ""Volpone, or The Fox"" (c. 1606), ""The Alchemist"" (1610) and ""Bartholomew Fair"" (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James VI and I after William Shakespeare. Jonson was a classically"
"after the events of ""Sleepless in Peckham"" and ""Beckham in Peckham"". In marketing for the book, John Challis and Sue Holderness reprised their roles as Boycie and Marlene. It is mentioned in the book that during the events of ""The Green Green Grass"", Del thought Boycie to be dead. Del Boy Derek Edward Trotter, more commonly known as Del Boy (born 10 December 1945), is the fictional lead character in the popular BBC sitcom ""Only Fools and Horses"" and one of the main characters of its prequel, ""Rock & Chips"". He was played by David Jason in the original series"
"Thomas Jevon Thomas Jevon (1652–1688) was an English playwright, and one of the first English Harlequins. He began his career as a dancing master, but worked his way onto the stage, and played leading low-comedy parts in London between 1673 and 1688. His brother-in-law was the English playwright and poet laureate Thomas Shadwell. Jevon's only published play, the farce ""The Devil of a Wife, or, a Comical Transformation"" (with a plot borrowed from a Philip Sidney story, and possibly some assistance from Shadwell), was performed in 1686 at Dorset Garden, where Jevon usually acted. Jevon and George Powell played the"
"Ken Campbell Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English writer, actor, director and comedian known for his work in experimental theatre. He has been called ""a one-man dynamo of British theatre."" Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy ""Illuminatus!"" and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's play cycle ""The Warp"". The ""Guinness Book of Records"" listed the latter as the longest play in the world. ""The Independent"" said that, ""In the 1990s, through a series of sprawling monologues packed with arcane information and freakish speculations on the"
"Wynyard Browne Wynyard Barry Browne (6 October 1911 – 19 February 1964) was an English dramiatist and playwright. He was born in London in 1911, and educated at Marlborough and Christ's College, Cambridge. His plays include 'The Holly and the Ivy', which was first produced at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1950 and was later made into a film, for which he wrote the screenplay. His first play was 'Dark Summer' and other works include 'A Question of Fact' and 'The Ring of Truth'. A traditional dramatist, his work fell out of fashion as 'Kitchen sink' dramas revolutionised the"
"an anonymous, untitled and incomplete manuscript, part of a collection of fifteen plays in the British Library catalogued as MS. Egerton 1994. The collection was discovered by James Halliwell-Phillipps, and also includes ""Edmund Ironside"", another play whose authorship has been attributed by some scholars to William Shakespeare. The collection was compiled by a seventeenth century actor in the King's Revels Men, William Cartwright (ca. 1606–1686; not to be confused with his contemporary poet/dramatist of the same name), who later became a bookseller and collector of plays during the English Civil War. There is no confirmed recorded production of the play"
"John Clive John Clive (6 January 1933 – 14 October 2012) was an English author and actor. He is best known for his international best selling historical and social fiction, such as ""KG200"" and ""Barossa"". Clive was also known as an actor, who started his career at the age of fifteen. Later he appeared on the West End stage, in plays such as ""Absurd Person Singular"", ""The Wizard of Oz"", ""Under Milk Wood"", ""The Bandwagon"" at the Mermaid Theatre, ""The Winslow Boy"", ""Young Woodley"" and ""Life With Father"". Clive's character acting has led him to appear in comic and serious"
"the British Council. Many of his plays evoked a strong audience reaction: ""Adolf"" induced some audience members to leave during the performance or to attack Utton; some felt physically sick during his performance of ""Labels"" (Utton's adaptation of the Louis de Bernières' short story of the same name). Utton was recently elected as Vice Chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe board. Pip Utton Pip Utton is a British actor and playwright. Utton was born 15 February 1952, raised and educated in Cannock. He authored the award-winning ""Adolf"", ""Chaplin"" and ""Only The Lonely"". As one of the leading solo performers in"
"Patrick Hamilton (writer) Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy for the poor, as well as an acerbic black humour. Doris Lessing wrote in ""The Times"" in 1968: ""Hamilton was a marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected"". His two most successful plays, ""Rope"", and ""Gas Light"" were made into famous films:"
"Only Fools and Horses Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003. Episodes are regularly repeated on UKTV comedy channel Gold and occasionally repeated on Yesterday and BBC One. Set in Peckham in south-east London, it stars David Jason as ambitious market trader Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter, Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter, and Lennard Pearce as their elderly Grandad. After Pearce's"
"Barré Lyndon Barré Lyndon (pseudonym of Alfred Edgar) (12 August 1896 – 23 October 1972) was a British playwright and screenwriter. The pseudonym was presumably taken from the title character of Thackeray's novel. Born in London, he may be best remembered for three screenplays from the 1940s: ""The Lodger"" (1944), ""Hangover Square"" (1945) and ""The Man in Half Moon Street"" (1945). The last was remade by Hammer Film Productions in 1959 as ""The Man Who Could Cheat Death"". Lyndon began his writing career as a journalist, particularly about motor-racing, and short-story writer before becoming a playwright. His first play, ""The"
"Supernatural Stories, Volumes 2 & 3"" and ""The Dark Shadows Legend :The Happier Dead"". Honorary Doctorate of Arts. De Montford University 18th. July 2013 Honorary Degree. University of Essex 17th. July 2015 Honorary Fellowship. Rose Bruford College 16th. September 2016 Murray Melvin Murray Melvin (born 10 August 1932) is an English stage and film actor noted for his work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick. He is the author of two books: ""The Art of Theatre Workshop"" (2006) and ""The Theatre Royal, A History of the Building"" (2009). Melvin was born in London. The son of Hugh Victor"
"John Baldwin Buckstone John Baldwin Buckstone (14 September 1802 – 31 October 1879) was an English actor, playwright and comedian who wrote 150 plays, the first of which was produced in 1826. He starred as a comic actor during much of his career for various periods at the Adelphi Theatre and the Haymarket Theatre, managing the Haymarket from 1853 to 1877. Buckstone was born in Hoxton, London, the son of John Buckstone, a retired shopkeeper, and his wife Elizabeth (née Baldwin). He was educated at Walworth Grammar School and was briefly apprenticed on a naval ship at age 10 but"
"single plays (in this case with Jack Levin) as Ian Curteis' ""Churchill and the Generals"" (1979) and several episodes of the ""BBC2 Playhouse"" series. In 1983 he produced ""To the Lighthouse"", an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name. One of his last productions was a serial adaptation of the Oswald Wynd novel ""The Ginger Tree"" (1989) co-produced by the BBC, Japanese broadcaster NHK and WGBH Boston from the novel of the same name. Alan Shallcross retired in the late 1990s, moving to Settle in Yorkshire. Alan Shallcross Alan Shallcross (8 June 1932 in Heswell, Cheshire (now Merseyside)"
"to commit to it. In 2015 we met with the producer, Phil McIntyre, and agreed to develop the idea. Soon after that, Paul Whitehouse came on board and things have been bubbling away ever since. I am very pleased and excited to say that the show will be launching early next year."" The musical is due to launch on 9 February 2019 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. ""Only Fools and Horses"" spawned many merchandising spin-offs. Several books have been published, such as """"The Only Fools and Horses Story"""" by Steve Clark and """"The Complete A-Z of Only Fools and"
"Merely Players Merely Players was a one-man stage show written and performed by Barry Morse. It examined the lives of a series of actors and others from Elizabethan times up to present day. The title is derived from lines by William Shakespeare in his play ""As You Like It"": ""All the world's a stage,""<BR> ""and all the men and women merely players:""<BR> ""They have their exits and their entrances;""<BR> ""and one man in his time plays many parts.""<BR> The two-act drama included several vignettes from the life and career of ""mere player"" Barry Morse, features over a dozen characters (three"
"Murray Melvin Murray Melvin (born 10 August 1932) is an English stage and film actor noted for his work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick. He is the author of two books: ""The Art of Theatre Workshop"" (2006) and ""The Theatre Royal, A History of the Building"" (2009). Melvin was born in London. The son of Hugh Victor Melvin and Maisie Winifred Driscoll, Melvin left his north London secondary school at the age of fourteen unable to master fractions but as head prefect, a qualification he says he gained by always having clean fingernails and well combed hair."
"John Sullivan (writer) John Richard Thomas Sullivan OBE (23 December 1946 – 22 April 2011) was an English television scriptwriter responsible for several British sitcoms, including ""Only Fools and Horses"", ""Citizen Smith"" and ""Just Good Friends"". John Sullivan was born at 35 Zennor Road, Balham, London, on 23 December 1946. His Irish-born father was John Patrick Sullivan, (17 March 1908-September 1993), a plumber, and his mother was Hilda Clara May, née Parker (23 December 1907–December 1992), a cleaner. From working-class South London, Sullivan worked in a variety of low-paid jobs for 15 years before getting his first break writing the"
"Richard Huggett (playwright) Richard Huggett (born 25 April 1929, London, England, died 15 April 2000 in Surrey, England) was an English actor, author, and playwright. He best-known plays are ""The First Night of Pygmalion"" (1968) and ""A Talent To Abuse"" (1981), both originally written and performed by Huggett himself as one-man shows. ""The First Night of Pygmalion"" was later adapted for television in 1969 and again in 1975. ""A Talent to Abuse"", in which Huggett played writer Evelyn Waugh, met with criticism from Waugh's son, Auberon. Huggett was also noted for his 1989 biography of British theatre producer Binkie Beaumont."
"Richard Huggett (playwright) Richard Huggett (born 25 April 1929, London, England, died 15 April 2000 in Surrey, England) was an English actor, author, and playwright. He best-known plays are ""The First Night of Pygmalion"" (1968) and ""A Talent To Abuse"" (1981), both originally written and performed by Huggett himself as one-man shows. ""The First Night of Pygmalion"" was later adapted for television in 1969 and again in 1975. ""A Talent to Abuse"", in which Huggett played writer Evelyn Waugh, met with criticism from Waugh's son, Auberon. Huggett was also noted for his 1989 biography of British theatre producer Binkie Beaumont."
"Pottle, whose death midway through the prayers served as the catalyst for Geraldine Granger's arrival. Other appearances include ""Poldark"", ""Shoestring"", ""Doctor Who"", ""Tenko"", ""Miss Marple"", ""All Creatures Great and Small"" and ""Inspector Morse"". His performances on BBC Radio include Dennis the Dachshund in Children's Hour's ""Toytown"". One of his final roles was as Coriakin the magician in the 1989 BBC TV adaptation of ""The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"", one of ""Chronicles of Narnia"". Preston Lockwood Reginald Herbert Lockwood (30 October 1912 – 24 April 1996), known professionally as Preston Lockwood, was an English actor. The only son of bus"
"at the Royal National Theatre. Tony Marchant (playwright) Tony Marchant (born 11 July 1959, East London) is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for ""The Lucky Ones"" and ""Raspberry"". In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television. His television work includes the acclaimed ""Holding On"" (1997), ""Never, Never"", starring John Simm and ""Take Me Home"". Marchant, whose his father was a printer and mother a school dinner lady, was born and raised on a council estate in Wapping in"
"Joan Littlewood Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop. She has been called ""The Mother of Modern Theatre"". Her production of ""Oh, What a Lovely War!"" in 1963 was one of her most influential pieces. Littlewood and her company lived and slept in the Theatre Royal while it was restored. Productions of ""The Alchemist"" and ""Richard II"", the latter starring Harry H. Corbett in the title role, established the reputation of"
"W. B. Maxwell William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a successful British novelist and playwright. Born on 4 June 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917. He wrote ""The Last Man In"", a drama, produced 14 March 1910, at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, by the Scottish Repertory Company; and, with George Paston (i.e. Emily Morse Symonds), a farce, ""The Naked Truth"", which was"
"two leading roles, and the piece achieved great success. Various versions with added music appeared later, and Charles Coffey used it as the basis of his opera ""The Devil to Pay"" in 1731. Thomas Jevon Thomas Jevon (1652–1688) was an English playwright, and one of the first English Harlequins. He began his career as a dancing master, but worked his way onto the stage, and played leading low-comedy parts in London between 1673 and 1688. His brother-in-law was the English playwright and poet laureate Thomas Shadwell. Jevon's only published play, the farce ""The Devil of a Wife, or, a Comical"