Plays, Books and Musicals by Gregory Motton
Where there are two dates given, the first date is that of writing.
to read more about each one, click on the title
Plays
THE WHORE OF LIVADIA 1981-83
CAINS AND ABEL 1983
RAIN Loughborough Hotel, Kings Head Theatre Upper St.1984
MR JOHNSON GAINS WEIGHT Bear And Staff, Charring Cross Road 1984
THE LURE College Arms, Royal College Street 1985
THE MOVER Bear And Staff 1985
CHICKEN (Penguin, Oberon) Portland Arms, Finborough Arms,1986 Riverside Studios
1987
AMBULANCE (Penguin, Oberon) Royal Court 1987
DOWNFALL (Methuen, Oberon) Royal Court 1988
LOOKING AT YOU (REVIVED) AGAIN (Flood Books, Oberon) Leicester 1989
GRAINS OF SAND 1990
THE LIFE OF SAINT FANNY BY HERSELF 1992
MESSAGE FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED 1990 (Flood Books, Oberon)L'pool 1993
THE TERRIBLE VOICE OF SATAN 1991(Flood Books, Oberon) Royal Court 1993
CAT AND MOUSE (SHEEP)1992 (Flood Books, Oberon) Théâtre de L'Odéon 1995
THE FOREST OF MIRRORS 1993 (Methuen)National Theatre Studio ,1995
IN PRAISE OF PROGRESS 1998(Oberon) Théâtre de L'Odéon 1999/BBC Radio
A LITTLE SATIRE (Oberon) Gate Theatre 1997
GOD'S ISLAND (Oberon) Théâtre de La Tempête 2001
YOU NEED SOME OF THIS Théâtre de Gennevilliers commission 2000
AUNT SALLY'S FUNERAL 2001
THIRST 2002
GENGIS AMONGST THE PYGMIES 1997 (Oberon) Comédie Française 2004
A HOLIDAY IN THE SUN 2003 (Oberon) Radio France Culture 2005
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST DIAMOND 2004(Oberon) Royal Court 2005
THE RAT TRAP 2004
CHAINS OF THE SKYWAY - SAME AS THE OLD BOSS National Theatre commission 2006
PETROL 2007 Th.Royal Plymth commission, Gulbenkian Th. 2013 (Levellers Press)
THE RAPE OF EUROPE (Levellers Press) 2008
JUNG - SEVEN SERMONS TO THE DEAD 1994,2012
A WORTHLESS MAN 2017
ALL ABOARD
WAKE UP
PALM SUNDAY
BURNING HOUSE 2024 Soho Folk and Blues, Frith Street, London
THE BALCONY 2024 Soho Folk and Blues, Frith Street, London
SIMEON 2024 Soho Folk and Blues, Frith Street, London
PEOPLE GET READY 2024 Soho Folk and Blues, Frith Street, London
CAR DOOR HANDLE 2024 Soho Folk and Blues, Frith Street, London
OMPHALOS 2024 Soho Folk and Blues, Frith Street, London
LISTEN TO ME NOW 2024 Soho Folk and Blues, Frith Street, London
JUDAS OF THE FIELD 2024
Musicals
NEFERTITI AND AKHENATEN 2010
THE MYSTERY OF HILL STREET Royal Court commission 2010
DRACULA 2011
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE 2013
Short plays
THE JUG 1990 (BBC Radio)
LAZY BRÍEN 1991 (BBC Radio)
A MONOLOGUE (Oberon) Musée Dauphinoise 2000
THE MOTHER 2006
PIRATES 2006
Adaptations
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Belgrade Theatre, Coventry 1992
Books
HELPING THEMSELVES- THE LEFT WING MIDDLE CLASSES IN THEATRE AND THE
ARTS (Levellers Press) 2008,
A WORKING CLASS ALTERNATIVE TO LABOUR 2013
LETTERS ABOUT NOTHING 2014
A PRISONER OF PASSION - MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 2014
THE ICE FLOE GIRL 2015
Films
The Four Gospels of Dracula the Messiah
Part One 2018
Part Two 2019
Part Three 2020
Part Four 2021
Dracula 2022
Lilith 2022
Film Scripts
A POET ASSASSINATED after Apollinaire 1991
CASTLE RACKRENT 1992
Translations
from Swedish
THE GHOST SONATA
THE PELICAN
SWANWHITE
THE BURNED SITE
THE STORM
THE FATHER
MISS JULIE
COMRADES { plays by Strindberg
CREDITORS all published by Oberon}
THE GREAT HIGHWAY
THE BLACK GLOVE
THE DANCE OF DEATH
EASTER
from Norwegian
THE NAME by Jon Fosse (Oberon)
SOMEONE IS GOING TO COME by Jon Fosse(Oberon)
from German
WOYZECK by Buchner (Nick Hern Books)
Application for performance for all of the above can be made to the author via
levellerspress@yahoo.co.uk. CDs of the musicals are also available on application
