Plays, Books and Musicals by GREGORY MOTTON

          Where there are two dates given, the first date is that of writing.         


    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
    CAT AND MOUSE (SHEEP)1992 (Flood Books, Oberon) Théâtre de L'Odéon 1995
    MESSAGE FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED 1990 (Flood Books, Oberon)L'pool 1993
    THE TERRIBLE VOICE OF SATAN 1991(Flood Books, Oberon) Royal Court 1993

    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 PYGMIES1997 (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

    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


    Film Scripts
    A POET ASSASSINATED after Apollinaire 1991
    CASTLE RACKRENT  1992
       
        Films
        Dracula the Messiah
        Part One 2019
        Part Two 2020
        Part Three  2020
       
    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.
Work by
Gregory Motton