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AUTHOR/TITLE

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Tanner, T. James

• Quaker Girl*
• Quaker Girl* (revised version see Beeson, Philip and Nicklin,A) ISBN 978 0 573 08080 7
  

Taylor, C.P.

• And a Nightingale Sang ISBN 978 0 573 11020 7
  

Taylor, Don

• Daughters of Venice* ISBN 978 0 573 01741 4
• Exorcism* ISBN 978 0 573 11120 4
• Roses of Eyam* ISBN 978 0 573 11386 4
• see also Dryden, E. and Taylor, D.
  

Taylor, Edward

• Murder by Misadventure* ISBN 978 0 573 01835 0
• Portrait of Fear* ISBN 978 0 573 11583 7

Taylor, Ian

• Tarantara! Tarantara!* ISBN 978 0 573 08043 7
  

Taylor, Jeremy James

• Helen Come Home, or Achilles the Heel* ISBN 978 0 573 15004 3
  

Taylor, Samuel

• Touch of Spring* ISBN 978 0 573 01592 2
  

Teacey, A.H.

• Quest for the Whooperdink* ISBN 978 0 573 05070 1
  

Terson, Peter

• Aesop's Fables (with music by Parton, J.)* ISBN 978 0 573 05078 7
• Pied Piper ( with music by Parton, J.)* ISBN 978 0 573 05060 2
• Rattling the Railings* ISBN 978 0 573 12230 9
• Strippers ISBN 978 0 573 01632 5
  

Thackeray, William Makepeace

• Vanity Fair (adapt. by Declan Donnellan)* ISBN 978 0 573 01974 6

Thain, Paul

• Black Widow* ISBN 978 0 573 01727 8
• Papa Panov's Magic Christmas* ISBN 978 0 573 06622 1
• Stone Soup* ISBN 978 0 573 15242 9
  

Thomas, Brandon

• Charley's Aunt ISBN 978 0 573 01067 5
  

Thompson, Flora

• Lark Rise to Candleford (adapt. Keith Dewhurst)* ISBN 978 0 573 10011 6
  

Thompson, Paul

• Children's Crusade* ISBN 978 0 573 05069 5
  

Thwaite, Emily and Sanderson, Bill

• Future Perfect* ISBN 0 573 15230 6

Tibbetts, Mike

• Bottles with Baskets On* ISBN 978 0 573 12001 5
• LittleBro Morning and BigSis Afternoon* ISBN 978 0 573 12154 8
  

Tinniswood, Peter

• Village Fête* ISBN 978 0 573 01924 1
• You Should See Us Now* ISBN 978 0 573 11512 7
  

Todd, Barbara Euphan

• Worzel Gummidge (adapt. by Hall, W. and Waterhouse, K.)* ISBN 978 0 573 18031 6
  

Toksvig, Jenifer and Perkins, David

• Curious Quest for the Sandman's Sand* ISBN 978 0 573 08109 5
• Pandemonium! (a Greek Myth-adventure) ISBN 978 0 573 08117 0
• Skool & Crossbones* ISBN 978 0 573 08112 5
• Shake, Ripple & Roll* ISBN 978 0 573 08124 8

See also Perkins, David

Toksvig, Sandi and Brewer, Elly

• The Pocket Dream* ISBN 978 0 573 01864 0

Travers, Ben

• Rookery Nook* ISBN 978 0 573 01389 8
• Thark* ISBN 978 0 573 01528 1
  

Tredinnick, Miles

• Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami!* 978 0 573 01633 2
  

Tristram, David

• What's For Pudding?* ISBN 978 0 573 12305 4
  

Turgenev, Ivan

• Fortune's Fool (adapt. by Poulton, M.) ISBN 978 0 573 01971 5

Turner, David

• Semi Detached* ISBN 978 0 573 11456 5
  

Twain, Mark

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (adapt. Francis, Matthew) ISBN 978 0 573 01779 5
  

Tydeman, Richard

Minidramas:

• Albert Laddin* ISBN 978 0 573 06617 7
• Ali's Barbara* ISBN 978 0 573 12006 0
• Ask a Silly Question* ISBN 978 0 573 06617 4
• Dawn on Our Darkness (1 act nativity)* ISBN 978 0 573 16603 7
• Fiesta Fandango* ISBN 978 0 573 12068 8
• Forty Winks Beauty* ISBN 978 0 573 06616 0
• Hi Fi Spy* ISBN 978 0 573 12106 7
• Iron Hot Strikers* ISBN 978 0 573 12122 7
• Piccalilli Circus* ISBN 978 0 573 13297 4
• Puss In Slippers* ISBN 978 0 573 16612 9
• Red Hot Cinders* ISBN 978 0 573 06615 3
• Sea Side Trippers* ISBN 978 0 573 16608 3
• Snow White Special* ISBN 978 0 573 13309 2
• Space Woman* ISBN 978 0 573 13312 1
• Spring Song Singers* ISBN 978 0 573 12234 7
• Way Out West* ISBN 978 0 573 12288 0
• What Ho Within !* ISBN 978 0 573 12292 7

TITLE/AUTHOR

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Table Manners (Alan Ayckbourn)

Take Away the Lady (Jimmie Chinn)

Taking Breath (Sarah Daniels)

Taking Steps (Alan Ayckbourn)

Tale of Little Red Riding Hood* (Simon Brett/Sarah Travis)

Tale of Two Cities (musical) (Charles Dickens/Dave Ross/Michael Mullane/Vivienne Carter/Neil Parker)

Tale of Two Cities (play) (Charles Dickens/Matthew Francis)

Tales from Hollywood (Christopher Hampton)

Tales of Hans Andersen (Pete Meakin. Adapted from the stories by Hans Christian Andersen)*

Tales of King Arthur (John Chambers)

Tarantara! Tarantara! (Ian Taylor)

Tartuffe (Molière/Miles Malleson)

Tea Dance (Margaret Bower)

Teechers (John Godber)

Temptation Sordid, or, Virtue Rewarded (Winifred Phelps)

Ten Times Table (Alan Ayckbourn)

Terrace Talk (George MacEwan Green)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Michael Fry/Thomas Hardy)

Thark (Ben Travers)

That Good Night (N. J. Crisp)

Theatrical Digs ( from Deckchairs II) (Jean McConnell)

Theft (Eric Chappell)

There Was an Old Woman (David Wood)

There's a Girl in My Soup (Terence Frisby)

There's None So Blind (Gillian Plowman)

Thermal Underwear (Andrew Davies)

They Call It Murder (Bettine Manktelow)

They Came From Mars ... (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)

They Came to a City (J. B. Priestley)

Thick as a Brick (John Godber/John Pattison)

Things We Do for Love (Alan Ayckbourn)

Think of the Magic (Frank Rodgers)

Think the Beautiful Thoughts (Rae Shirley)

Third Great Coarse Acting Show (Michael Green)

This Desirable Cottage (Anthony Booth)

This Happy Breed (Noël Coward)

This Is Where We Came In (Alan Ayckbourn)

Three Comedy Sketches (Michael Kilgarriff)

Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas/Willis Hall)

Three Musketeers - Le Panteau! (Richard Lloyd)

Three Sisters

(Anton Chekhov/Samuel Adamson)
(Anton Chekhov/Christopher Hampton)

Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew (Robert Bolt)

Tickle (David Wood)

Till We Meet Again (Colin and Mary Crowther)

Tilting Ground (Guy Hibbert)

Time and the Conways (J. B. Priestley)

Time and Time Again (Alan Ayckbourn)

Time of My Life (Alan Ayckbourn)

Time to Kill (Leslie Darbon)

Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen/Peter Whelan)

Tippers (Gillian Plowman)

Tiptoe Through the Tombstones (Norman Robbins)

To Have and To Hold (Lorraine Forrest-Turner)

To Meet Oscar Wilde (Norman Holland)

Toad of Toad Hall (Kenneth Grahame/A. A. Milne)

Toe in the Water (Derek Benfield)

Tom, Dick and Harry (Ray and Michael Cooney)

Tom Jones (Henry Fielding/Joan Macalpine)

Tom Kitten and His Friends (Beatrix Potter/Adrian Mitchell)

Tom, the Piper's Son (Norman Robbins)

Tom's Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce/David Wood)

Tomb with a View (Norman Robbins)

Tons of Money (Valentine/Will Evans)

Tons of Money (revised) (Valentine/Will Evans/Alan Ayckbourn)

Too Long an Autumn (Jimmie Chinn)

Top Girls (Caryl Churchill)

Top Table (Margaret Wood)

Totally Over You (Mark Ravenhill)

Touch and Go (Derek Benfield)

Touch of Danger (Francis Durbridge)

Touch of Rose Madder (Jim O'Connor)

Touch of Spring (Samuel Taylor)

Train (Carl Slotboom)

Treasure Island

(Willis Hall/Robert Louis Stevenson)

(Bernard Miles/Robert Louis Stevenson)

Treasure Island - the Panto (Richard Lloyd)

Treats (Christopher Hampton)

Trelawny (Aubrey Woods/Julian Slade)

Trelawny of the "Wells" (Arthur W. Pinero)

Trial (Anthony Booth)

Trip of a Lifetime (Bill Cashmore and Andy Powrie)

Trivial Pursuits (Frank Vickery)

Trouble with Old Lovers (Angela Huth)

Tryst (Colin Crowther)

Turn of the Screw (Henry James/Ken Whitmore)

Twelfth Man (H. Connolly)

Twelve Angry Men (Reginald Rose)

Twelve Pound Look (J. M. Barrie)

Twenty-Five Not Out (Hazel Wyld)

The Twits (Roald Dahl. Adapted for the stage by David Wood)

Two and Two Make Sex (Leslie Darbon/Richard Harris)

Two and Two Together (Derek Benfield)

Two Fat Men (Gillian Plowman)

Two Into One (Ray Cooney)

Two of a Kind (Hugh Janes)

Two Planks and a Passion (Anthony Minghella)

Two Summers (Gillian Plowman)

Two Wits to Woo (John Kelly)