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AUTHOR/TITLE LISTING: S

TITLE/AUTHOR LISTING: S

AUTHOR/TITLE

S

Sackville-West, Vita

• See Atkins, Eileen: Vita & Virginia
  

Samad, Sharif

• Pictures of Clay* ISBN 978 0 573 11581 3

Samuel, K.O.

• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp* ISBN 978 0 573 06405 0
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves* ISBN 978 0 573 06407 4
• Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood* ISBN 978 0 573 06447 0
  

Saunders, Geoff

• Other People* ISBN 978 0 573 12183 8
• Starch* ISBN 978 0 573 14203 1

Saunders, James

• After Liverpool (with Games)* ISBN 978 0 573 02501 3
• Double Double* ISBN 978 0 573 02055 7
• Games (with After Liverpool)* ISBN 978 0 573 02501 3
• Making It Better* ISBN 978 0 573 01834 3
• Mixed Doubles (with other authors )* ISBN 978 0 573 01584 7
  

Scholes, John

• Space Between the Years* ISBN 978 0 573 12251 4
  

Scott, Les; Bolam, Ken and Oakes, Roy

• Rockafella* ISBN 978 0 573 08094 4
• United We Stand* ISBN 978 0 573 08054 8
  

Scott, M and Mayer, D

• Four Bars of "Agit": incidental music for Victorian and Edwardian melodrama* ISBN 978 0 573 09010 3
  

Scott, Noel

• Came a Dealer in Dreams* ISBN 978 0 573 15211 5
  

Shaffer, Anthony

• Murderer* ISBN 978 0 573 01590 8
  

Shaffer, Peter

• Amadeus ISBN 978 0 573 11015 3
• Black Comedy ISBN 978 0 573 02303 3
• Equus ISBN 978 0 573 01566 3
• Five Finger Exercise* ISBN 978 0 573 01132 0
• Gift of the Gorgon* ISBN 978 0 573 01774 2
• Lettice and Lovage ISBN 978 0 573 01823 7
• Private Ear ISBN 978 0 573 02215 9
• Public Eye ISBN 978 0 573 02219 2
• Royal Hunt of the Sun ISBN 978 0 573 01388 1
• White Liars ISBN 978 0 573 12302 3
  

Shapiro, Jacqui

• Joshua's Egg* ISBN 978 0 573 05119 7

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

• Rivals ISBN 978 0 573 01382 9
  

Sherman, Martin

• Cracks ISBN 978 0 573 11089 4
• When She Danced ISBN 978 0 573 01934 0
  

Sherriff, R C

• Journey's End ISBN 978 0 573 04003 0
  

Shirley, Rae

• Bus Stop* ISBN 978 0 573 13209 4
• Flesh Game* ISBN 978 0 573 13242 1
• Think the Beautiful Thoughts* ISBN 978 0 573 13316 3
  

Shrubshall and Free

• Around the Pond in 80 Days* ISBN 978 0 573 08130 9

Shue, Larry

• The Foreigner* ISBN 978 0 573 11282 9

Simon, Neil

• Barefoot in the Park* ISBN 978 0 573 01551 9
• Rumours* ISBN 978 0 573 01884 8
  

Simpson, Dave

• Railway Children (adapt. from Nesbit, E.)* ISBN 978 0 573 05083 1

Simpson, N.F.

• Form* ISBN 978 0 573 02076 6
• Hole* ISBN 978 0 573 02100 8
• One to Another (sketches)* ISBN 978 0 573 07021 1
• One Way Pendulum ISBN 978 0 573 01321 8
• Resounding Tinkle (1 act version)* ISBN 978 0 573 02229 6
  

Slotboom, Carl

• Train* ISBN 978 0 573 12332 0

Smith, Colin

• Four-Play* ISBN 978 0 573 12248 4

Smith, Dodie

• Dear Octopus* ISBN 978 0 573 01096 5
• Hundred and One Dalmatians (adapt. by Glyn Robbins) * ISBN 978 0 573 05114 2

Smith, Leo

• Sins of the Father* ISBN 978 0 573 12253 8
• Whence* ISBN 978 0 573 12300 9
  

Smith, Stephen

• Background Artiste* ISBN 978 0 573 12044 2
• Departure* ISBN 978 0 573 12075 6
• On Location* ISBN 978 0 573 02353 8
• One-Sided Triangle* ISBN 978 0 573 1253 1
• Parentcraft* ISBN 978 0 573 12214 9
  Penalty* ISBN 978 0 573 02359 0

Snelgrove, Michael

• Bums on Seats* ISBN 978 0 573 01756 8
• Hidden Meanings* ISBN 978 0 573 12098 5
• Marking Time* ISBN 978 0 573 01828 2
• Urban Cycles* ISBN 978 0 573 12279 8
  

Spewack, Samuel and Bella

• My Three Angels* ISBN 978 0 573 01304 1
  

Spooner, Dennis and Clemens, Brian

• 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
  

S.S.B.

• Alice in Wonderland (from Carroll, L.)* ISBN 978 0 573 05003 9
  

Stanford, Janet

• Snow White - The Purdiest Gal in the West* ISBN 978 0 573 01874 9
  

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• Jekyll and Hyde (adapt. by Caddy, L.)* ISBN 978 0 573 11186 0
• Treasure Island (adapt. by Miles, B.)* ISBN 978 0 573 04017 7
• Treasure Island (adapt. by Hall, W.)* ISBN 978 0 573 08068 5
  

Stockwell, Richard

• Bad Blood* ISBN 978 0 573 01994 4
• Killing Time* ISBN 978 0 573 01818 3
  

Stoppard, Tom

• Albert's Bridge ISBN 978 0 573 02321 0
• Arcadia ISBN 978 0 573 01718 6
• Artist Descending A Staircase ISBN 978 0 573 01687 5
• Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land ISBN 978 0 573 11109 9
• Fifteen Minute Hamlet ISBN 978 0 573 02506 8
• Hapgood ISBN 978 0 573 01781 0
• If You're Glad I'll Be Frank ISBN 978 0 573 12112 8
• Indian Ink ISBN 978 0 573 01796 4
• Night and Day ISBN 978 0 573 11308 6
• Real Inspector Hound ISBN 978 0 573 02323 1
• Real Thing ISBN 978 0 573 01637 0
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ISBN 978 0 573 01338 6
• Separate Peace ISBN 978 0 573 12254 5
  

Stoppard, Tom and Exton, Clive

• Boundary* ISBN 978 0 573 12046 6
  

Storey, David

• Home* ISBN 978 0 573 01220 4
• March on Russia ISBN 978 0 573 01698 1

Stuart, Pauline

Basic Pantomime:

• Sinbad the Sailor* ISBN 978 0 573 06451 7
  

Stubbs, Norman

• Patio Window* ISBN 978 0 573 12191 3
• Ringing for You* ISBN 978 0 573 12226 2
  

Sutton, Shaun

• Christmas Carol (from Dickens)* ISBN 978 0 573 01070 5
  

Swannell, Graham

• Hyde Park* ISBN 978 0 573 12105 0
  

TITLE/AUTHOR

S

Safari Party (Tim Firth)

Sailor Beware (King/Cary)

Salad Days (Dorothy Reynolds/Julian Slade)

Salt of the Earth (John Godber)

Same Old Moon (Geraldine Aron)

Sammy's Magic Garden (Kjartan Poskitt)

Sandcastles on the Beach (John McColl)

Santa in Space (Paul Reakes)

Sarcophagus (Vladimir Gubaryev/Michael Glenny)

Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens (Book by Charlotte Mann. Lyrics by Charlotte Mann and Michael Fidler. Music by Jonathan Croose and Robin Forrest. Based on original ideas by Johanna Allitt, Simon Curtis, Michael Fidler and Charlotte Mann)

Save the Human (David Wood/Tony Husband)

Say Something Happened (Alan Bennett)

Say Who You Are (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)

Scarlet Pimpernel (Beverley Cross/Baroness Orczy)

Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz (Alfred Bradley)

School for Wives (Molière/Miles Malleson)

School Ties (George Brockhill)

Scottish Play (Graham Holliday)

Scrooge - the Musical (Charles Dickens/Leslie Bricusse)

Sea Side Trippers (Richard Tydeman)

Seagull

(Anton Chekhov/David Iliffe)

(Anton Chekhov/Mike Poulton)

Seascape (Tony Rushforth)

Season's Greetings (Alan Ayckbourn)

Second Easter (Norman Holland)

Second from Last in the Sack Race (Michael Birch/David Nobbs)

Second Mrs Tanqueray (Arthur W. Pinero)

Second Time Around (Derek Benfield)

Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett, adapt. by Neil Duffield)

Secret Rapture (David Hare)

Secretary Bird (William Douglas Home)

Secrets (Giles Cole)

See How They Run (Philip King)

See-Saw Tree (David Wood)

Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde/David Perkins/Caroline Dooley)

Selfish Shellfish (David Wood)

Semblance of Madness! (John H. Newmeir)

Semi-Detached (David Turner)

Sense and Sensibility (Roger Parsley/Andy Grham/Jane Austen)

Separate Peace (Tom Stoppard)

Separate Tables (Terence Rattigan)

Separation (Tom Kempinski)

September Revisited (Enid Coles)

September Tide (Daphne du Maurier/Mark Rayment)

Sequence of Events (George MacEwan Green)

Serious Money (Caryl Churchill)

Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni/David Turner/Paul Lapworth)

Seven (Charles Harter)

Seven Golden Dragons (Lewton/Miller)

Seven Stages of an Affair (Lorraine Forrest-Turner)

Shadow of a Gunman (Sean O'Casey)

Shadows of the Evening (Noël Coward)

Shadowlands (William Nicholson)

Shake, Ripple & Roll (Jenifer Toksvig/David Perkins)

Share and Share Alike (Geoff Morrow)

She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)

She Was Only an Admiral's Daughter (Harold Brooke/Kay Bannerman)

Shell Seekers (Terence Brady/Charlotte Bingham/Rosamunde Pilcher)

Sherlock Holmes, The Revenge of (Leslie Bricusse)

Shindig (Arthur Aldrich)

Shirley Valentine (Willy Russell)

Shock (Brian Clemens)

Shock Tactics (John Dole)

Shop for Charity (Charles Mander)

Short Changed (from Deckchairs II) (Jean McConnell)

Shut Your Eyes and Think of England (John Chapman/Anthony Marriott)

Silas Marner (George Eliot/adapt. Geoffrey Beevers)

Silhouette (Simon Brett)

Silly Cow (Ben Elton)

Sinbad the Sailor

(John Crocker/Eric Gilder)

(John Morley)

(Paul Reakes)

(Pauline Stuart)

Sing a Song of Sixpence (Norman Robbins)

Singing in the Wilderness (David Campton)

Single Spies (Alan Bennett)

Sins of the Father (Leo Smith)

Sisterhood (R. R. Bolt/Molière)

Sisterly Feelings (Alan Ayckbourn)

Sisters Rosensweig (Wendy Wasserstein)

Sitting Pretty (Amy Rosenthal)

Ski Whizz (Richard Ingham)

Skip (Mary Rensten)

Skool & Crossbones (Jenifer Toksvig/David Perkins)

Skylight (David Hare)

Sleeping Beauty

(Simon Brett)

(Alan Brown)

(Margaret Carter)

(David Cregan/Brian Protheroe)

(John Crocker/Eric Gilder)

(Norman Robbins)

Slice of Saturday Night (Heather Brothers)

Slight Ache (Harold Pinter)

A Slight Hangover (Ian Ogilvy)

Small Affair (Bob Larbey)

Small Change (Peter Gill)

Small Family Business (Alan Ayckbourn)

Small Hours (Francis Durbridge)

Smashed Eggs (Phil Porter)

Smile (David Campton)

Smut's Saga or Santa and the Vikings (Richard Lloyd)

Snake in the Grass (Alan Ayckbourn)

Snatching of Horrible Harold (John Gardiner/Fiz Coleman)

Snow Queen (Ron Nicol/Hans Christian Andersen)

Snow White (Norman Robbins)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Jessie Braham White)

Snow White Special (Richard Tydeman)

Snow White - the Purdiest Gal in the West (Janet Stanford)

So What Do We Do About Henry? (Charlotte Hastings)

Soft September Air (Charlotte Hastings)

Soldier and the Woman (Elaine Morgan)

Soldiering On (Alan Bennett)

Some Canterbury Tales (Ken Pickering/Derek Hyde)

Something to Remember You By (Jimmie Chinn)

Something's Burning (Eric Chappell)

Son of Man (Dennis Potter)

Sorry, I Love You ... (John Goodrum)

Sound of Silence (Jean Cocteau/Anthony Wood)

Sour Grapes and Ashes (Nick Warburton)

Space Between the Years (John Scholes)

Space Junk (Les Ellison)

Space Woman (Richard Tydeman)

Spanish Lies (Frank Vickery)

Sparkleshark (Philip Ridley)

Sparrows (Charles Mander)

Spend Spend Spend (Steve Brown/Justin Green/Viv Nicholson)

Spider and the Bird (Georgia Dobbs)

Spider's Web (Agatha Christie)

Split Ends (Frank Vickery)

Spot's Birthday Party (David Wood/Eric Hill)

Spring and Port Wine (Bill Naughton)

Spring Song Singers (Richard Tydeman)

Stage Struck (Simon Gray)

Stags and Hens (Willy Russell)

Staircase (Charles Dyer)

Stanley Parkers (Geraldine Aron)

Starch (Geoff Saunders)

Steel Magnolias (Robert Harling)

Stepping Out (Richard Harris)

Stepping Out — the Musical (Richard Harris, Mary Stewart-David, Denis King)

Stevie (Hugh Whitemore)

Still Life (Noël Coward)

Sting in the Tale (Brian Clemens/Dennis Spooner)

Stone Soup (Paul Thain)

Stop the Nightmare (George MacEwan Green)

Straight and Narrow (Jimmie Chinn)

Strangers on a Train (Craig Warner/Patricia Highsmith)

Strike Up the Banns (Olwen Wymark)

Strippers (Peter Terson)

Strictly Murder (Brian Clemens)

Suburb of Babylon (Hugh Leonard)

Suburban Strains (Alan Ayckbourn)

Suddenly at Home (Francis Durbridge)

Summer (Hugh Leonard)

Summer End (Eric Chappell)

Summer in the Park (Ellen Dryden/Don Taylor)

Summer Song (Eric Maschwitz/Hy Craft)

Surgical Sensations at St Sennapod's (John Gardiner/Fiz Coleman)

Suspects (Giles Cole)

Suspicions (N. J. Crisp)

Swan Song (Vanessa Brooks)

Sweeney Todd (C. G. Bond)

Sweeney Todd Shock 'n' Roll Show (Randall Lewton/Peter Miller)

Sweeney Todd the Barber (Brian J. Burton)

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Austin Rosser)

Sweet Revenge (Francis Durbridge)

Sylvia's Wedding (Jimmie Chinn)