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AUTHOR/TITLE LISTING: C

TITLE/AUTHOR: C

AUTHOR/TITLE

C

Caddy, Leonard

• Jekyll and Hyde* ISBN 978 0 573 11186 0
  

Camoletti, Marc

• Boeing-Boeing* (trans. Cross, B.) ISBN 978 0 573 11024 5
• Don't Dress for Dinner* (adapt. Hawdon, R.) ISBN 978 0 573 01748 3
• Happy Birthday* (trans. Cross, B.) ISBN 978 0 573 11172 3
  

Campton, David

• After Midnight, Before Dawn* ISBN 978 0 573 12002 7
• Cagebirds* ISBN 978 0 573 03366 7
• Can You Hear the Music* ISBN 978 0 573 12042 8
• Cards, Cups and Crystal Ball* ISBN 978 0 573 13215 5
• Do-It-Yourself Frankenstein Outfit*ISBN 978 0 573 12056 5
• Evergreens* ISBN 978 0 573 12065 7
• Everybody's Friend* ISBN 978 0 573 03378 0
• Life and Death of Almost Everybody* ISBN 978 0 573 11223 2
• Mixed Doubles (with others)* ISBN 978 0 573 01584 7
• Mrs Meadowsweet* ISBN 978 0 573 13282 7
• Now and Then* ISBN 978 0 573 03367 4
• Our Branch in Brussels* ISBN 978 0 573 13283 4
• Parcel* ISBN 978 0 573 12196 8
• Permission to Cry* ISBN 978 0 573 12208 8
• Relics* ISBN 978 0 573 13302 2
• Singing in the Wilderness* ISBN 978 0 573 12233 0
• Smile* ISBN 978 0 573 13306 0
• Us and Them* ISBN 978 0 573 02346 0
• What Are You Doing Here ?* ISBN 978 0 573 12296 5
• Who Calls?* ISBN 978 0 573 03381 9
• Winter of 1917* ISBN 978 0 573 12299 6
  

Carley, Steve

• The Edge* ISBN 978 0 573 12151 7

Carroll, Lewis

• Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (adapt. Dane)* ISBN 978 0 573 05001 9
• Alice in Wonderland (adapt. SSB)* ISBN 978 0 573 05003 9
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (adapt. Pearn)*ISBN 978 0 573 15006 7
  

Carter, C. and Adams, P.H.

Basic Pantomime:

• Jack and the Beanstalk* ISBN 0 573 06428 8
  

Carter, C and Polley, S. A.

Basic Pantomime:

• Babes in the Wood* ISBN 978 0 573 06408 1
  

Carter, Margaret

Pantomimes for the Young :

• Dick Whittington* ISBN 978 0 573 06421 0
• Sleeping Beauty* ISBN 978 0 573 06453 1

Cartwright, Jim

• Rise and Fall of Little Voice ISBN 978 0 573 01883 1
• Road ISBN 978 0 573 01664 6
  

Cary, Falkland L.

• Husbands Supplied* ISBN 978 0 573 02109 1
  

Cary, Falkland L. and King, Philip

• see King, Philip and Cary, Falkland L.
  

Cashmore, Bill and Powrie, Andy

• Trip of a Lifetime* ISBN 978 0 573 02363 7
  

Caspary, Vera and Miller, Sonny

• Wedding in Paris* ISBN 978 0 573 08032 6
  

Chambers, John

• Tales of King Arthur* ISBN 978 0 573 05110 4
  

Chapman, John

• Nil By Mouth* ISBN 978 0 573 01983 8
  

Chapman, John and Freeman, Dave

• Key For Two* ISBN 978 0 573 11258 4
  

Chapman, John and Marriott, Anthony

• Shut Your Eyes and Think of England* ISBN 978 0 573 11411 3
  

Chapman, John and Pertwee, Michael

• Holiday Snap* ISBN 978 0 573 11284 3
• Look, No Hans!* ISBN 978 0 573 01606 6
  

Chappell, Eric

• Double Vision* ISBN 978 0 573 01976 0
• Father's Day* ISBN 978 0 573 11557 8
• Fiddler's Three (We Don't Want to Lose You & Cut and Dried)* ISBN 978 0 573 01980 7
• Haunted* ISBN 978 0 573 01794 0
• Haywire* ISBN 978 0 573
• Heatstroke ISBN 978 0 573 01800 8*
• It Can Damage Your Health* 978 ISBN 0 573 01795 7
• Natural Causes* ISBN 978 0 573 01841 1
• Something's Burning* ISBN 978 0 573 01890 9
• Summer End* ISBN 978 0 573 01995 1
• Theft* ISBN 978 0 573 01943 2
• Up and Coming* ISBN 978 0 573 01953 1
  

Chater-Robinson, Piers and Barrie, J. M.

• Peter Pan (musical version)* ISBN 978 0 573 08059 3
  

Chatfield, Roy

• Great Santa Kidnap* ISBN 978 0 573 06623 8
  

Chekhov, Anton

• Bear (trans. by Bernard Lawrence)* 978 0 573 12016 9
• Cherry Orchard (version by Adamson, Samuel)* 978 0 573 01999 9
• Seagull* (trans. Iliffe, D.) ISBN 978 0 573 01400 3
• Seagull* (adapt. Poulton, Mike.) ISBN 978 0 573 01991 3
• Three Sisters (version by Adamson, Samuel)* ISBN 978 0 573 01949 4
• Three Sisters (version by Hampton, Christopher)* ISBN 978 0 573 01998 2
• Uncle Vanya (translated by Poulton, Mike)* ISBN 978 0 573 01958 6
  

Chinn, Jimmie

• After September* ISBN 978 0 573 01716 2
• Albert Make Us Laugh* ISBN 978 0 573 01719 3
• But Yesterday* ISBN 978 0 573 12048 0
• A Different Way Home* ISBN 978 0 573 11092 4
• From Here to the Library* ISBN 978 0 573 12058 9
• Home Before Dark, or The Saga of Miss Edie Hill* ISBN 978 0 573 01787 2
• In By the Half* ISBN 978 0 573 12126 5
• In Room Five Hundred and Four* ISBN 978 0 573 12120 3
• Interior Designs* ISBN 978 0 573 12114 2
• Pity About Kitty* ISBN 978 0 573 12203 3
• Respectable Funeral* ISBN 978 0 573 12232 3
• Something to Remember You By* ISBN 978 0 573 01872 5
• Straight and Narrow* ISBN 978 0 573 01902 9
• Sylvia's Wedding* ISBN 978 0 573 01873 2
• Take Away the Lady* ISBN 978 0 573 11453 7
• Too Long an Autumn* ISBN 978 0 573 12274 3
  

Chinn, Jimmie and Wyld, Hazel

• Garden Party* ISBN 978 0 573 01879 4

Chown, Patricia

• Long Noon* ISBN 978 0 573 12143 2
  

Christie, Agatha

• Afternoon at the Seaside* ISBN 978 0 573 02004 9
• And Then There Were None* ISBN 978 0 573 01441 3
• Cards on the Table (dram. Darbon, L.)* ISBN 978 0 573 11540 0
• Hollow* ISBN 978 0 573 01182 5
• Love From a Stranger* ISBN 978 0 573 01248 8
• Mousetrap* ISBN 978 0 573 01522 9
• Murder Is Announced (dram. Darbon, L.)* ISBN 978 0 573 11295 9
• Murder on the Nile* ISBN 978 0 573 01298 3
• Patient* ISBN 978 0 573 02198 5
• Rats* ISBN 978 0 573 02223 4
• Spider's Web* ISBN 978 0 573 01427 7
• Unexpected Guest* ISBN 978 0 573 01467 3
• Witness for the Prosecution* ISBN 978 0 573 01500 7
  

Christopher-Wood, John

• Elsie and Norm's "Macbeth"* ISBN 978 0 573 01754 4
  

Churchill, Caryl

• Cloud Nine ISBN 978 0 573 01668 4
• Serious Money ISBN 978 0 573 01711 7
• Top Girls ISBN 978 0 573 13013 7
  

Churchill, Donald/Yeldham, Peter

• My Friend Miss Flint* ISBN 978 0 573 11271 3

Clapham, Peter (adaptor)

• Little Women* ISBN 978 0 573 11232 4
  

Clarke, Brian

• Whose Life Is It Anyway? ISBN 978 0 573 01587 8
  

Clarke, David

• The Attack and Defence of the Old Elvish Kingdom of Vassia Against The River Witch and her Grim Horde* ISBN 978 0 573 015241 2
  

Clemens, Brian

• Devil at Midnight* ISBN 978 0 573 01758 2
• Edge of Darkness* ISBN 978 0 573 11118 1
• Inside Job* ISBN 978 0 573 01792 6
• Shock* ISBN 978 0 573 11410 6
• Strictly Murder* ISBN 978 0 573 11429 8
  

Clemens, Brian and Spooner, Dennis

• Anybody for Murder?* ISBN 978 0 573 01713 1
• Sting in the Tale* ISBN 978 0 573 01645 5
• Will You Still Love Me in the Morning?* ISBN 978 0 573 01935 7
  

Clepper, P.M.

• Joseph Andrews (based on the novel by Henry Fielding)* ISBN 978 0 573 11209 6
  

Cocteau, Jean

• The Sound of Silence* ISBN 978 0 573 12266 8
• The Human Voice* ISBN 978 0 573 03382 0
  

Cogo-Fawcett, Robert and Murray, Braham

• Keep an Eye on Amelie (from Feydeau, G.)* ISBN 978 0 573 01813 8
  

Coke, Peter

• Breath of Spring* ISBN 978 0 573 01053 8
• Fool's Paradise* ISBN 978 0 573 01137 5
• What Are Little Girls Made Of ?* ISBN 978 0 573 11483 0
• Winter Glory* ISBN 978 0 573 01674 5
  

Cole, Giles

• Secrets* ISBN 978 0 573 12235 4
• Suspects* ISBN 978 0 573 01899 2
  

Cole, Keith R. see Pickering, Ken

Coleman, Fiz see Gardiner, John

Coles, Enid

• Just a Little Word* ISBN 978 0 573 13268 2
• Little Benjamin* ISBN 978 0 573 13267 4
• Once and for All* ISBN 978 0 573 13287 2
• September Revisited* ISBN 978 0 573 13310 7
• Under the Twelfth Sign* ISBN 978 0 573 12276 3
  

Colley, Peter

• I'll Be Back Before Midnight* ISBN 978 0 573 01652 3
• When the Reaper Calls* ISBN 978 0 573 11477 9
  

Collins, Wilkie

• Woman in White (adapt. Cox, Constance)* ISBN 978 0 573 11578 3

Connolly, H

• Bill & Bob* ISBN 978 0 573 02369 9
• Daddy's Gone A-Hunting* ISBN 978 0 573 12035 0
• One Careful Owner* 978 0 573 12160 9
• Overtime* ISBN 978 0 573 12193 7
• Twelfth Man* ISBN 978 0 573 01919 7
  

Cook, C.R.

Potted pantomimes :

• Ali the Barber* ISBN 978 0 573 06001 4

Cookson, Catherine

• Fifteen Streets* (adapt. Bettinson, R.) ISBN 978 0 573 01688 2
  

Cooney, Michael

• Cash on Delivery* ISBN 978 0 573 01752 0
  (See also Cooney, Ray and Cooney, Michael)
  

Cooney, Ray

• Caught in the Net* ISBN 978 0 573 01975 3
• Funny Money* ISBN 978 0 573 01762 9
• It Runs in the Family* ISBN 978 0 573 01799 5
• Out of Order* ISBN 978 0 573 01858 9
• Run For Your Wife!* ISBN 978 0 573 11383 3
• Two Into One* ISBN 978 0 573 01607 3
  

Cooney, Ray and Cooney, Michael

• Tom, Dick and Harry* ISBN 978 0 573 11438 0
  

Cooney, Ray and Stone, Gene

• Why Not Stay For Breakfast?* ISBN 978 0 573 01580 9
  

Cooney, Ray, Sultan, Arne and Barret, Earl

• Wife Begins At Forty* ISBN 978 0 573 01636 3
  

Coward, Noël

• Bitter Sweet ISBN 978 0 573 08005 0
• Blithe Spirit ISBN 978 0 573 01044 6
• Come into the Garden Maud ISBN 978 0 573 02308 8
• Fumed Oak ISBN 978 0 573 02079 7
• Hands Across the Sea ISBN 978 0 573 02091 9
• Hay Fever ISBN 978 0 573 01174 0
• Present Laughter ISBN 978 0 573 01354 6
• Private Lives ISBN 978 0 573 01357 7
• Relative Values ISBN 978 0 573 01375 1
• Shadows of the Evening ISBN 978 0 573 02309 1
• Still Life ISBN 978 0 573 02255 5
• This Happy Breed ISBN 978 0 573 01443 7
• Waiting in the Wings ISBN 978 0 573 01470 3

Cox, Constance

• Everyman* ISBN 978 0 573 06248 3
• Lady Audley's Secret* ISBN 978 0 573 02345 3
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (from the short story by Oscar Wilde)* ISBN 978 0 573 01245 7
• Maria Marten (one-act)* ISBN 978 0 573 02325 5
• Murder Game* ISBN 978 0 573 01222 8
• What Brutes Men Are* ISBN 978 0 573 13337 4
• Woman in White (from the novel by Wilkie Collins)° ISBN 978 0 573 11578 3
  

Crane, Richard

• Under the Stars* ISBN 978 0 573 01911 1
  

Creagh, Henry, M

• Victory of the Cross* ISBN 978 0 573 06250 6
  

Cregan, David (music by Brian Protheroe)

• Aladdin* ISBN 978 0 573 16404 0
• Beauty and the Beast* ISBN 978 0 573 06481 4
• Cinderella* ISBN 978 0 573 06488 3
• Jack and the Beanstalk* ISBN 978 0 573 06477 7
• Red Ridinghood* ISBN 978 0 573 06474 6
• Sleeping Beauty* ISBN 978 0 573 06472 2
  

Cregan, David

• The Difficult Unicorn* ISBN 978 0 573 05134 0

Crisp, N.J.

• Dangerous Obsession* ISBN 978 0 573 01682 0
• Fighting Chance* ISBN 978 0 573 01629 5
• Suspicions* ISBN 978 0 573 01901 2
• That Good Night* ISBN 978 0 573 01913 5
  

Crocker, John

Pantomimes :

• Aladdin* (typescript on hire)
• Babes in the Wood (typescript on hire)
• Cinderella* (typescript on hire)
• Dick Whittington* (typescript on hire)
• Sleeping Beauty* (typescript on hire)

Crocker, John and Hampton, Tim

• Frankenstein Monster Show* ISBN 978 0 573 08057 9
  

Crocker, John and Gilder, Eric

Pantomimes :

• Aladdin* ISBN 978 0 573 06471 5
• Babes in the Wood* ISBN 978 0 573 16409 6
• Cinderella* ISBN 978 0 573 16457 6
• Dick Whittington* ISBN 978 0 573 06465 4
• Humpty Dumpty* ISBN 978 0 573 16413 3
• Jack and the Beanstalk* ISBN 978 0 573 16454 5
• Mother Goose* ISBN 978 0 573 16424 8
• Potty Pantomime*
• Puss in Boots* ISBN 978 0 573 16446 0
• Queen of Hearts* ISBN 978 0 573 16438 5
• Red Riding Hood* ISBN 978 0 573 16433 0
• Robinson Crusoe* ISBN 978 0 573 06473 9
• Sinbad the Sailor*
• Sleeping Beauty* ISBN 978 0 573 16411 8

Croft, David

See Lloyd, Jeremy and Croft, David
See Perry, Jimmy and Croft, David

Cross, Beverley (translator of Marc Camoletti)

• Boeing-Boeing* ISBN 978 0 573 11024 5
• Happy Birthday* ISBN 978 0 573 11172 3
  

Cross, Beverley (adapt. from Baroness Orczy)

• Scarlet Pimpernel* ISBN 978 0 573 01650 9
  

Cross, Gillian

• Demon Headmaster (adapt. James, Paul; Halstead, Ian)* ISBN 978 0 573 08116 3
  

Crowther, Colin

• Footprints in the Sand* ISBN 978 0 573 02351 4
• Tryst* ISBN 978 0 573 12311 5

 Crowther, Colin and Mary

• The Lost Garden (typescript on hire)
• Noah's Ark* ISBN 978 0 573 15234 1
• Till We Meet Again* ISBN 978 0 573 02360 3

Cullen, Allan

• Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin* ISBN 978 0 573 05010 7

Culling, Dave

• Daniel and the Lions* ISBN 978 0 573 08126 2
  

TITLE/AUTHOR

C

Café Society (Ayshe Raif)

Cagebirds ( David Campton)

Call of the Piper (Liz Berwick)

Callisto 5 (Alan Ayckbourn)

Came a Dealer in Dreams (Noel Scott)

Camille (Pam Gems)

Camp Confidence (Diana Raffle)

Can You Hear the Music? (David Campton)

Candleford (Keith Dewhurst/Flora Thompson)

Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde/Peter Quilter/Charles Miller)

Captain Blackboot and the Wallamagrumba (Patricia Wood)

Captain Blackboot's Island (Patricia Wood)

Caramba's Revenge (William Norfolk)

Caravan (Helen Blakeman)

Card Play (David Foxton)

Cards (Stephen Lowe)

Cards, Cups and Crystal Ball (David Campton)

Cards on the Table (Agatha Christie/Leslie Darbon)

Careful Rapture (Jack Popplewell)

Caretaker (Harold Pinter)

Carpe Jugulum (Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs)

Cash on Delivery (Michael Cooney)

Caught in the Net (Ray Cooney)

Caught on the Hop (Derek Benfield)

Cause Celebre (Terence Rattigan)

Celebration (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)

The Champion of Paribanou (Alan Ayckbourn)

Charity Begins ... (Bettine Manktelow)

Charlatan (William Norfolk)

Charley's Aunt (Brandon Thomas)

Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, S'il Vous Plaît (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)

Chatroom (Enda Walsh)

The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov, a version by Samuel Adamson)

Chess (Tim Rice)

Children's Crusade (Paul Thompson)

Children's Day (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)

Chinese Pendant & other plays (Harry Austin)

Chip in the Sugar (Alan Bennett)

Chorus of Disapproval (Alan Ayckbourn)

Christmas Carol (musical) (Charles Dickens/Christopher Bedloe)

Christmas Carol (play)

(Charles Dickens/John Mortimer)
(Charles Dickens/Shaun Sutton)

Christmas Cavalier (Richard Lloyd)

Christmas Crackers (Willis Hall)

Christmas Incorporated (Peter Horsler)

Christopher Columbus (Joan Macalpine)

Chu Chin Chow (Oscar Asche)

Cider With Rosie (Laurie Lee/James Roose-Evans)

Cinderella

(Alan Brown)
(David Cregan/Brian Protheroe)
(John Crocker/Eric Gilder)
(Norman Robbins)

Cinderella: family musical (David Wood)

Circle (W. Somerset Maugham)

City Sugar (Stephen Poliakoff)

Clara's on the Curtains! (Arthur Lovegrove)

Clearing the Colours (James Vollmar)

Clericcal Errors (Georgina Reid)

Close to Croydon (Gillian Plowman)

Cloud Nine (Caryl Churchill)

Coarse Acting Show 2 (Michael Green)

Coarse Acting Strikes Back (Michael Green)

Cocktail Hour (A. R. Gurney)

Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons/Paul Doust)

Cold Salmon (John Bowen)

Collaborators (John Mortimer)

Collection (Harold Pinter)

The Collector (Mark Healy/John Fowles)

Come As You Are (John Mortimer)

Come into the Garden Maud (Noël Coward)

The Comedy of Terrors! (John Goodrum)

Comfort and Joy (Mike Harding)

Comic Potential (Alan Ayckbourn)

Common Pursuit (Simon Gray)

Communicating Doors (Alan Ayckbourn)

Company Come (Alec Baron)

Confusions (Alan Ayckbourn)

Constant Wife (W. Somerset Maugham)

Continental Quilt (Joan Greening)

Conversations With a Golliwog (Alexander Guyan)

Corn is Green (Emlyn Williams)

Corpse! (Gerald Moon)

Corpsing (Peter Barnes)

Costa Del Packet! (Anthony Booth)

Cracked Pot (Blake Morrison/Heinrich von Kleist)

Cracks (Martin Sherman)

A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (Alan Bennett)

Crossways (Jane Parry-Davies)

Crowns, the King and the Long Lost Smile (David Foxton)

Cruise Missile (From Deckchairs III) (Jean McConnell)

Cuckoo (Emlyn Williams)

Cupboard Love (From Deckchairs III) (Jean McConnell)

Curious Quest for the Sandman's Sand (Jenifer Toksvig)

Curses, Foiled Again! (Evelyn Hood)

Curtain Call (Bettine Manktelow)

Curtain Up on Murder (Bettine Manktelow)

Curtains (Stephen Bill)

Cut and Dried (See Fiddler's Three) (Eric Chappell)

Cut and Run (Peter Horsler)

Cut in the Rates (Alan Ayckbourn)