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AUTHOR/TITLE

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Paice, Eric

• Deadly Embrace* ISBN 978 0 573 01745 2
  

Parkin, Ken

• Anthology of British Tongue Twisters* ISBN 978 0 573 09028 8
• Ideal Voice and Speech Training* ISBN 978 0 573 09013 4
  

Parkinson, Carol

• The Voice of the Phoenix* ISBN 978 0 573 12222 4

Parry-Davies, Jane

• Crossways* ISBN 978 0 573 13228 5
  

Parsley, Roger

• All For Your Delight* ISBN 978 0 573 08075 3
• Brideshead Revisited (from the novel by Evelyn Waugh) ISBN 978 0 573 01703 8
• End of the Pier Show* ISBN 978 0 573 08083 4
  

Parsley, Roger and Graham, Andy (adapt.)

• Sense and Sensibility* ISBN 978 0 573 01926 5

Patten, Brian

• Gargling with Jelly (play)* ISBN 978 0 573 05092 3

Pattison, John and Ayckbourn, Alan

• Dreams from a Summer House* ISBN 978 0 573 08104 0
• Word From Our Sponsor* ISBN 978 0 573 08105 7
  

Peacock, Trevor and Price, Alan

• Andy Capp : The Musical* ISBN 978 0 573 08056 2
  

Pearce, Philippa

• Tom's Midnight Garden (adapted by David Wood) * ISBN 978 0 573 05127 2
  

Pearn, V.A.

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (from Lewis Carroll) * ISBN 978 0 573 15006 7
  

Pember, Ron and de Marne, Denis

• Jack the Ripper* ISBN 978 0 573 08042 5
  

Perkins, David and Dooley, Caroline

• Selfish Giant* ISBN 0 573 08122 0 (libretto and piano/vocal score); ISBN 978 0 573 08123 4 (libretto only)
  

Permutt, Stewart

• One Last Card Trick* ISBN 978 0 573 03024 6
  

Pernak, Adam

• Killers* ISBN 978 0 573 01815 2
  

Perry, Jimmy and Croft, David

• Dad's Army* (Three comedies) ISBN 978 0 573 10014 7
  

Perry, Scott

• Bookends* ISBN 978 0 573 14208 6
  

Pertwee, Michael and Chapman, John

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

Phelps, Winifred

• Temptation Sordid, or, Virtue Rewarded* ISBN 978 0 573 02265 4
  

Pickering, Ken and Cole, Keith R.

• Beowulf* ISBN 978 0 573 08052 4
• Ulysses* ISBN 978 0 573 15063 2
  

Pickering, Ken and Hyde, Derek

• Some Canterbury Tales* ISBN 978 0 573 08077 7
  

Pilch, Michael

• Night Errant (from Feydeau, G.)* ISBN 978 0 573 12173 9
  

Pilcher, Rosamunde

• Shell Seekers (adapt. Brady, Terence and Bingham, Charlotte)* ISBN 978 0 573 11416 8
  

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

• Magistrate ISBN 978 0 573 01264 0
• Second Mrs Tanqueray ISBN 978 0 573 01402 4
• Trelawny of the "Wells" ISBN 978 0 573 01459 8
  

Pinter, Harold

• Birthday Party ISBN 978 0 573 01042 2
• Caretaker ISBN 978 0 573 04002 3
• Collection ISBN 978 0 573 02036 0
• Dumb Waiter ISBN 978 0 573 04210 2
• Family Voices (from Other Places) ISBN 978 0 573 12067 1
• Homecoming ISBN 978 0 573 01555 7
• Kind of Alaska (from Other Places) ISBN 978 0 573 12129 9
• Lover ISBN 978 0 573 02148 0
• Mountain Language ISBN 978 0 573 12163 0
• Night Out ISBN 978 0 573 02176 3
• One for the Road (from Other Places) ISBN 978 0 573 12184 5
• One to Another (sketches; co-author)* ISBN 978 0 573 07021 1
• Room ISBN 978 0 573 02236 4
• Slight Ache ISBN 978 0 573 02249 4
• Victoria Station (from Other Places) ISBN 978 0 573 04225 6
• also Mixed Doubles (with other authors)*
  

Plater, Alan

• I Thought I Heard a Rustling* ISBN 978 0 573 01791 9
  

Plowman, Gillian

• The Allotment* ISBN 978 0 573 03395 7
• Beata Beatrix* ISBN 978 0 573 12136 4
• David's Birthday* ISBN 978 0 573 12062 6
• Janna Years* ISBN 978 0 573 12125 8
• Kind of Vesuvius* ISBN 978 0 573 04229 4
• Me and My Friend ISBN 978 0 573 01831 2
• Philip and Rowena* ISBN 978 0 573 12195 1
• There's None So Blind ISBN 978 0 573 12270 5
• Tippers* ISBN 978 0 573 12262 0
• Touching Tomorrow ISBN 978 0 573 02357 6
• Two Fat Men* ISBN 978 0 573 12313 9
• Two Summers* ISBN 978 0 573 12285 9
• Umjana Land* ISBN 978 0 573 12140 1
• The Window Cleaner* ISBN 978 0 573 02380 4
  

Poliakoff, Stephen

• Blinded by the Sun ISBN 978 0 573 01929 6
• Breaking the Silence ISBN 978 0 573 01617 2
• City Sugar ISBN 978 0 573 11072 6
  

Poole, Alan

• Bottom's Dream* ISBN 978 0 573 12026 8
  

Polley, S.A. and Carter, C

Basic Pantomime:

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

Popplewell, Jack

• Busybody* ISBN 978 0 573 01515 1
• Careful Rapture* ISBN 978 0 573 02030 8

Porter, Phil

• Smashed Eggs* ISBN 978 0 573 05132 6
  

Poskitt, Kjartan

• Fawkes - the Quiet Guy* ISBN 978 0 573 08107 1
• Henry the Tudor Dude* ISBN 978 0 573 08096 8
• Henry the Tudor Dude, Vocal Score* ISBN 0 573 08595 6
• Nell's Belles* ISBN 978 0 573 08118 7
• Rumpelstiltskin Racket* ISBN 978 0 573 08103 3
• Rumpelstiltskin Racket, Vocal Score* ISBN 978 0 573 08597 0
• Sammy's Magic Garden* ISBN 978 0 573 15015 9
  

Post, W.H. and Hooker, Brian

• Vagabond King* ISBN 978 0 573 08029 61
  

Potter, Dennis

• Blue Remembered Hills* ISBN 978 0 573 01699 8
• Brimstone and Treacle* ISBN 978 0 573 01626 4
• Son of Man* ISBN 978 0 573 16004 2

Poulton, Mike (translator)

• Fortune's Fool (Ivan Turgenev)* ISBN 978 0 573 01971 5
• Seagull (Anton Chekhov)* ISBN 978 0 573 01991 3
• Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov) * ISBN 978 0 573 01958 6
  

Powrie, Andy and Cashmore, Bill

• See Cashmore, Bill and Powrie, Andy

Pratchett, Terry

• Carpe Jugulum (adapted by Stephen Briggs)* ISBN 978 0 573 01776 6
  Lords and Ladies (adapted by Irana Brown)* ISBN 978 0 573 01888 6
• Maskerade (adapted by Stephen Briggs)* ISBN 978 0 573 01829 9

Prendergast, Shaun

• Little Victories* ISBN 978 0 573 05103 6
  

Price, Alan and Peacock, Trevor

• Andy Capp: The Musical* ISBN 978 0 573 08056 2
  

Price, Stanley

• Why Me?* ISBN 978 0 573 01622 6
  

Priestley, J.B.

• Dangerous Corner* ISBN 978 0 573 01088 0
• I Have Been Here Before ISBN 978 0 573 01194 8
• Inspector Calls ISBN 978 0 573 01205 1
• Laburnum Grove* ISBN 978 0 573 01221 1
• Mystery At Greenfingers* ISBN 978 0 573 01307 2
• They Came to a City* ISBN 978 0 573 01442 0
• Time and the Conways ISBN 978 0 573 01446 8
• When We Are Married ISBN 978 0 573 01476 5

TITLE/AUTHOR

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Pack of Lies (Hugh Whitemore)

Pandemonium! (a Greek Myth-adventure) (Jenifer Toksvig/David Perkins)

Panic Stations (Derek Benfield)

Papa Panov's Magic Christmas (Paul Thain)

Papertown Paperchase (David Wood)

Parcel (David Campton)

Pardon Me, Prime Minister (John Graham/Edward Taylor)

Parentcraft (Stephen Smith)

Parochial Problems (Margaret Wood)

Party Piece (Richard Harris)

Passing-Out Parade (Anne Valery)

Passion Killers (John Godber)

Passionate Woman (Kay Mellor)

Pastimes (Brian Jeffries)

Patient (Agatha Christie)

Patio Window (Norman Stubbs)

Patrick Pearse Motel (Hugh Leonard)

Penalty (Stephen Smith)

People Like Us (Cherry Vooght)

Perchance to Dream (Ivor Novello)

Percival the Performing Pig (Dilys Owen)

Perfect Murder (Jeffrey Archer/Hugh Janes)

Perfect Partners (Alan Richardson)

Perfect Pitch (John Godber)

Performing Shakespeare (J. W. Aykroyd)

Perkin and the Pastrycook (David Foxton)

Permission to Cry (David Campton)

Person of No Consequence (Margaret Wood)

Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie). See also Chater-Robinson

Peter Pan (musical) (J. M. Barrie/Piers Chater-Robinson)

Phantom of the Opera (Ken Hill)

Philanthropist (Christopher Hampton)

Philip and Rowena (Gillian Plowman)

Physicists (Durrenmatt/Kirkup)

Piccalilli Circus (Richard Tydeman)

Pickwick (Leslie Bricusse)

Pickwick Papers (Lynn Brittney, from the novel by Charles Dickens)

Pictures of Clay (Sharif Samad)

Piece of My Mind (Peter Nichols)

Pied Piper

(Peter Terson)

(David Wood/Dave and Toni Arthur)

Pillars of the Community (Henrik Ibsen/Samuel Adamson)

Pink Champagne (Eric Maschwitz/Bernard Grun)

Pinocchio (John Morley)

Pity About Kitty (Jimmie Chinn)

Pizzazz (Hugh Leonard)

Play of the Royal Astrologers (Willis Hall)

Playhouse Creatures (April de Angelis)

Playing Sinatra (Bernard Kops)

Playing the Wife (Ronald Hayman)

Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner (David Wood)

Plough and the Stars (Sean O'Casey)

Pocket Dream (Elly Brewer/Sandi Toksvig)

The Pomegranate Seeds (Sebastian Hayes)

Popcorn (Ben Elton)

Poppy (Peter Nichols)

Portrait of Fear (Edward Taylor)

Post Horn Gallop (Derek Benfield)

Potty Pantomime (John Crocker/Eric Gilder)

Pratt of the Argus (Michael Birch/David Nobbs)

Present from the Past (Richard Everett)

Present Laughter (Noël Coward)

Primula the Non-Sheepdog and the Great Grey Wolf (Graham Holliday)

Prin (Andrew Davies)

Princess Ascending (Norman Holland)

Prisoner of Zenda (Matthew Francis)

Private Ear (Peter Shaffer)

Private Lives (Noël Coward)

Private View (Vaclav Havel/Vera Blackwell)

Privates on Parade (Peter Nichols)

Prodigious Snob (Molière/Miles Malleson)

Properly Processed (Lynn Brittney)

Proscenophobia (Stage Fright) (Bettine Manktelow)

Public Eye (Peter Shaffer)

Pull the Other One (Norman Robbins)

Pullin' the Wool (Frank Vickery)

Pullman Car Hiawatha (Thornton Wilder)

Purvis (Nick Warbruton)

Push (Alec Baron)

Puss in Boots

(Alan Brown)

(John Crocker/Eric Gilder)

(Norman Robbins)

Puss in Slippers (Richard Tydeman)

Put Some Clothes On, Clarisse! (Georges Feydeau/Reggie Oliver)

Putting the Kettle On (Simon Brett)