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AUTHOR/TITLE

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Wakefield, Colin and Leach, Roger

• Audience with Murder ISBN 978 0 573 11003 0

Walker, Graham

• Hamelin Incident* ISBN 978 0 573 12092 3
  

Wall, Michael

• Amongst Barbarians* ISBN 978 0 573 01928 9

Walsh, Enda

• Chatroom ISBN 978 0 573 05256 5

Warboyes, Sally

• House Plant* ISBN 978 0 573 12117 3
  

Warburton, N.J.

• Dickens' Children (adapt from Dickens, Charles)* ISBN 978 0 573 02374 3
• Distracted Globe* ISBN 978 0 573 12102 9
• Domby-Dom* ISBN 978 0 573 12221 7
• Don't Blame it on the Boots* ISBN 978 0 573 12086 2
• Droitwich Discovery* ISBN 978 0 573 12146 3
• Easy Stages* ISBN 978 0 573 12066 4
• Garlic and Lavender* ISBN 978 0 573 12306 1
• Ghost Writer* ISBN 978 0 573 15216 0
• Last Bread Pudding* ISBN 978 0 573 12145 6
• Loophole* ISBN 978 0 573 04228 7
• Melons at the Parsonage* ISBN 978 0 573 12159 3
• Not Bobby* ISBN 978 0 573 12179 7
• Office Song* ISBN 978 0 573 12174 6
• Purvis* ISBN 978 0 573 02381 1
• Receive this Light* ISBN 978 0 573 06254 4
• Round the World with Class 6* ISBN 978 0 573 15239 9
• Sour Grapes and Ashes* ISBN 978 0 573 12244 6
• Zartan* ISBN 978 0 573 12304 7
  

Warner, Craig

• Strangers on a Train (Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith) ISBN 978 0 573 01972 2

Wasserstein, Wendy

• The Sisters Rosensweig ISBN 978 0 573 01908 1
  

Waterhouse, Keith

• Good Grief* ISBN 978 0 573 01777 3
• Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell*ISBN 978 0 573 01804 6
  

Waterhouse, Keith and Hall, Willis

• All Things Bright and Beautiful* ISBN 978 0 573 11012 2
• Billy Liar ISBN 978 0 573 11142 6
• Celebration* ISBN 978 0 573 11251 5
• Children's Day* ISBN 978 0 573 01561 8
• Filumena (adapt. from de Filippo)* ISBN 978 0 573 11130 3
• Our Song* ISBN 978 0 573 01856 5
• Say Who You Are* ISBN 978 0 573 01952 4
• Whoops-a-Daisy* ISBN 978 0 573 11486 1
• Worzel Gummidge* ISBN 978 0 573 18031 6
  

Watson, Dave

• Last Munro* ISBN 978 0 573 12147 0
  

Waugh, Evelyn (adapt. Parsley, R)

• Brideshead Revisited* ISBN 978 0 573 01730 8
  

Weldon, Fay

• Action Replay* ISBN 978 0 573 11001 6
• Flood Warning* ISBN 978 0 573 02361 3
• I Love My Love* ISBN 978 0 573 11253 9
• Mixed Doubles (with other authors)* ISBN 978 0 573 01584 7
• The Reading Group* ISBN 978 0 573 12227 9
  

Wesker, Arnold

• Roots ISBN 978 0 573 11377 2
  

West, Don

• Vacant Possession* ISBN 978 0 573 12280 4
  

West, Trudy

Basic pantomimes :

• Humpty Dumpty* ISBN 978 0 573 06426 5
• Mother Goose* ISBN 978 0 573 06437 1

Whalley, Peter

• Dead of Night* ISBN 978 0 573 01743 8
• Local Murder* ISBN 978 0 573 01655 4
  

Whelan, Peter

• Accrington Pals ISBN 978 0 573 11009 2
• Tinder Box (adapt. from Hans Christian Andersen)* ISBN 978 0 573 05108 1
  

White, J.B.

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: a play with music* ISBN 978 0 573 05024 4
  

White, Matthew

• Far from the Madding Crowd* (adapt. from Thomas Hardy) ISBN 978 0 573 01769 4

Whitemore, Hugh

• Breaking the Code ISBN 978 0 573 01656 1
• Pack of Lies ISBN 978 0 573 11343 7
• Stevie ISBN 978 0 573 11418 2
  

Whitmore, Ken

• Jump for your Life* ISBN 978 0 573 05049 7
• Turn of the Screw (adapt. from Henry James)* ISBN 978 0 573 11454 0

Whitmore, Ken and Bradley, Alfred

• Final Twist* ISBN 978 0 573 01765 0
  

Whiting, John

• Devils ISBN 978 0 573 01101 6
• No Why* ISBN 978 0 573 02180 0
  

Wilde, Oscar

• Canterville Ghost (adapted by Peter Quilter and Charles Miller) ISBN 978 0 573 08119 4
• Importance of Being Earnest (3-act version) ISBN 978 0 573 01202 0
• Importance of Being Earnest (4-act version)* ISBN 978 0 573 11198 3
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (dram. by Cox, C)* ISBN 978 0 573 01245 7
• Selfish Giant (musical adaptation by Perkins, David)* ISBN 978 08122 0
  

Wilder, Thornton

• Happy Journey* ISBN 978 0 573 02093 3
• Long Christmas Dinner* ISBN 978 0 573 02144 2
• Pullman Car Hiawatha* ISBN 978 0 573 02220 3
  

Wiles, John

• Golden Masque of Agamemnon* ISBN 978 0 573 15008 1
• Lords of Creation* ISBN 978 0 573 05082 4

William, David and Green, Benny

• Bashville* ISBN 978 0 573 08072 2
  

Williams, Clifford

• see: du Maurier, Daphne
  

Williams, Emlyn

• Cuckoo* ISBN 978 0 573 01649 3
• Corn is Green* ISBN 978 0 573 01738 4
• Late Christopher Bean* ISBN 978 0 573 01227 3
• Murder Has Been Arranged* ISBN 978 0 573 01294 5
• Night Must Fall* ISBN 978 0 573 01843 5
• Wind of Heaven* ISBN 978 0 573 01653 0
  

Williams, Frank

• Murder by Appointment* ISBN 978 0 573 01621 9
  

Williams, Hugh Steadman

• Everywoman* ISBN 978 0 573 06253 7
  

Williams, Simon

• Kiss of Death* ISBN 978 0 573 01984 5
• Laying the Ghost * ISBN 978 0 573 01854 1
• Nobody's Fool* ISBN 978 0 573 11518 9
• Nobody's Perfect* ISBN 978 0 573 01819 0

Williams, Tennessee

• Baby Doll (adapt. by Lucy Bailey)* ISBN 978 0 573 01970 8

Willmott, Phil

• Around the World in Eighty Days (Book, music and lyrics)* ISBN 978 0 573 08120 0

Wilson, David Henry

• How to Make Your Theatre Pay* ISBN 978 0 573 02352 1

Wilson, Sandy

• Boy Friend* ISBN 978 0 573 08007 4
• Divorce Me, Darling !* ISBN 978 0 573 08049 4
• Valmouth* ISBN 978 0 573 08061 6
  

Windsor, Valerie

• Effie's Burning* ISBN 978 0 573 13236 0
  

Wood, Anthony

Wood, David

• Aladdin: a family musical* ISBN 978 0 573 16403 3
• BFG*(from the book by Roald Dahl) ISBN 978 0 573 05094 7
• Babes in the Magic Wood: family musical* ISBN 978 0 573 06506 4
• Cinderella: family musical* ISBN 978 0 573 16427 9
• Danny the Champion of the World* (from the book by Roald Dahl) ISBN 978 0 573 15016 6
• Dick Whittington and Wondercat: family musical* ISBN 978 0 573 06507 1
• Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish (based on the book by Michael Foreman) ISBN 978 0 573 15205 4
• Fantastic Mr Fox*(from the book by Roald Dahl) ISBN 978 0 573 05133 3
• Flibberty and the Penguin* ISBN 978 0 573 05033 6
• Gingerbread Man* ISBN 978 0 573 05042 8
• Hijack Over Hygenia* ISBN 978 0 573 05034 3
• Ideal Gnome Expedition* ISBN 978 0 573 05061 9
• Jack and the Giant : family musical* ISBN 978 0 573 05080 0
• James and the Giant Peach*(from the book by Roald Dahl) ISBN 978 0 573 05138 8
• Meg and Mog Show* (from the books by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski) ISBN 978 0 573 05065 7
• Mother Goose's Golden Christmas : family musical* ISBN 978 0 573 06504 0
• More Adventures of Noddy (based on the books by Enid Blyton) ISBN 978 0 573 05117 3
• Noddy (based on the books by Enid Blyton) ISBN 978 0 573 05104 3
• Nutcracker Sweet* ISBN 978 0 573 15002 9
• Old Father Time* ISBN 978 0 573 05046 6
• Old Mother Hubbard* ISBN 978 0 573 06649 4
• Papertown Paperchase* ISBN 978 0 573 05032 9
• Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner* ISBN 978 0 573 05030 5
• Rupert and the Green Dragon *(based on the Rupert stories and characters)* ISBN 978 0 573 05113 5
• Save the Human (based on the story by Tony Husband and David Wood)* ISBN 978 0 573 05090 9
• See-Saw Tree ISBN 978 0 573 15017 3
• Selfish Shellfish* ISBN 978 0 573 05069 5
• Spot's Birthday Party* (based on the books by Eric Hill) ISBN 978 0 573 05129 6
• There Was An Old Woman ...* ISBN 978 0 573 05051 0
• Tickle* ISBN 978 0 573 05247 7
• Tom's Midnight Garden (adapted from the book by Philippa Pearce)* ISBN 978 0 573 05127 2
• The Twits (adapted from the book by Roald Dahl)* ISBN 978 0 573 05125 8
• Witches*(from the book by Roald Dahl) ISBN 978 0 573 05099 2
  

Wood, David and Arthur, Dave and Toni

• Jack the Lad* ISBN 978 0 573 01801 5
• Pied Piper* ISBN 978 0 573 15007 4
• Robin Hood* ISBN 978 0 573 05063 3
  

Wood, David and Ruskin, Sheila

• Owl and the Pussycat Went to See . . .* ISBN 978 0 573 05027 5
  

Wood, Margaret

• Last Scene of All* ISBN 978 0 573 12133 3
• Parochial Problems* ISBN 978 0 573 12199 9
• Person of No Consequence* ISBN 978 0 573 03369 8
• Top Table* ISBN 978 0 573 12275 0
  

Wood, Patricia

• Captain Blackboot and the Wallamagrumba* ISBN 978 0 573 15223 8
• Captain Blackboot's Island* ISBN 978 0 573 15208 5
• Dandelion Time* ISBN 978 0 573 05043 5
• Wizard of Wobbling Rock* ISBN 978 0 573 05068 8
  

Woods, Aubrey and Slade, Julian

• Trelawny* ISBN 978 0 573 08041 8
  

Woods, Jill

• Inheritance* ISBN 978 0 573 13255 1

Woolf, Virginia

See Atkins, Eileen: Vita & Virginia

Wyatt, Woodrow

• High Profiles* ISBN 978 0 573 01785 8
  

Wye, Angela

• Rialto Prom* ISBN 978 0 573 03358 7
  

Wyld, Hazel

• Night's Candles* ISBN 978 0 573 12177 7
• Twenty-Five Not Out* ISBN 978 0 573 12278 1

See also Chinn, Jimmy and Wyld, Hazel

Wymark, Olwen

• Find Me ISBN 978 0 573 11136 5
• Lessons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence in New Mexico* ISBN 978 0 573 01644 8
• Loved* ISBN 978 0 573 11247 8
• Mothering Sunday* ISBN 978 0 573 02354 5
• Strike Up the Banns* ISBN 978 0 573 01898 5
  

TITLE/AUTHOR LISTING

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Wait Until Dark (Frederick Knott)

Waiting for Alec (Frank Eccles)

Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)

Waiting for Yesterday (Duncan Greenwood)

Waiting in the Wings (Noël Coward)

Waldo (and Sons) (Andrew McGregor/David Pickthall)

Walk On, Walk On (Willis Hall)

Waltz of the Toreadors (Jean Anouilh)

Warrior (Shirley Gee)

Watcher in the Shadow (Norman Holland)

Water Babies (musical) (Willis Hall/Charles Kingsley)

Way Out West (Richard Tydeman)

Way Upstream (Alan Ayckbourn)

Wayward Spirit (Charlottle Hastings)

We Don't Want to Lose You (See Fiddler's Three) (Eric Chappell)

We Found Love/Aboard the SS Farndale (David McGillivray/Walter Zerlin Jnr)

Wedding in Paris (Vera Caspary/Sonny Miller)

Wedding of the Year (Norman Robbins)

Weekend Breaks (John Godber)

Whale Music (Anthony Minghella)

What Are Little Girls Made Of? (Peter Coke)

What Are You Doing Here? (David Campton)

What Brutes Men Are (Constance Cox)

What Every Woman Knows (J. M. Barrie)

What Ho Within (Richard Tydeman)

What I Did in the Holidays (Philip Osment)

What's For Pudding? (David Tristram)

When Did You Last See Your Trousers? (Ray Galton/JohnAntrobus)

When She Danced (Martin Sherman)

When the Reaper Calls (Peter Colley)

When the Wind Blows (Raymond Briggs)

When We Are Married (J. B. Priestley)

Whence (Leo Smith)

Where the Rainbow Ends (Clifford Mills/John Ramsay)

White Cat (Norman Robbins)

The White Cliffs (Bettine Manktelow)

White Horse Inn (Hans Muller/Erik Charell)

White Liars (Peter Shaffer)

Who Calls? (David Campton)

Who Dies Wins (Seymour Matthews)

Who Goes Bare? (Leslie Darbon/Richard Harris)

Who Killed Santa Claus? (Terence Feely)

Who Saw Him Die? (Tudor Gates)

Whodidit? (Neil Harrison)

Whoops-a-Daisy (Keith Waterhouse/Willis Hall)

Whose Life Is It Anyway? (Brian Clarke)

Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? (Margaret Bower)

Why Me? (Stanley Price)

Why Not Stay For Breakfast? (Ray Cooney/Gene Stone)

Wife Begins at Forty (Ray Cooney/Arne Sultan/Earl Barret)

Wild Goose Chase (Derek Benfield)

Wildest Dreams (Alan Ayckbourn)

Will You Still Love Me in the Morning? (Brian Clemens/Dennis Spooner)

Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame/Alan Bennett, music by Jeremy Sams)

Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame/John Morley)

Wind in the Willows (musical) (Grahame/Willis Hall)

Wind of Heaven (Emlyn Williams)

The Window Cleaner (Gillian Plowman)

Winner Takes All (Reggie Oliver/Georges Feydeau)

Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne/Glyn Robbins)

Winslow Boy (Terence Rattigan)

Winter Glory (Peter Coke)

Winter of 1917 (David Campton)

Witches (Roald Dahl/David Wood)

Witness for the Prosecution (Agatha Christie)

Wizard of Oz (play version) (L . Frank Baum/Alfred Bradley)

Wizard of Wobbling Rock (Patricia Wood)

Wolf at the Door (Alan Ayckbourn/Henry Becque)

Woman in Black (Susan Hill/Stephen Mallatratt)

Woman in Mind (Alan Ayckbourn)

Woman in White (Constance Cox/Wilkie Collins)

Woman of No Importance (Alan Bennett)

Women on the Verge of HRT (Marie Jones. Music by Neil Martin)

Wonderful Story of Mother Goose (Norman Robbins)

Word From Our Sponsor (Alan Ayckbourn and John Pattison)

World Première (Charles Mander)

Worzel Gummidge (Barbara Euphan Todd/Willis Hall/Keith Waterhouse)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë/Charles Vance)