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ANTHONY CREIGHTON (1922 - 2005) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Anthony Creighton's name was all but forgotten until 1995 when he alleged that he and John Osborne had conducted a long love affair. The revelation was greeted with surprise by those familiar with Osborne's views on such matters. "Whatever else," Osborne wrote in 19~4, "I have been blessed with God's two greatest gifts: to be born English and heterosexual." But Creighton's claims seemed to be backed up by letters sent to him from Osborne in the 1950s when they were jobbing actors sharing a houseboat in west London. Whenever Osborne went off to work in repertory he would write regularly, referring affectionately to Creighton as "Mouse". Creighton later displayed little bitterness towards Osborne, despite the fact that the latter described him in his autobiography as "a cadging homosexual drunk". - - The Daily Telegraph
Plays by Anthony Creighton
Epitaph For George Dillon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford University Experimental Club | Feb 1957 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1958 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571230884 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8241 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton. Produced Royal Court London, 11 Feb 1958 | |||||
| A mediocre artist is planted into the weed patch of petite bourgeois suburbia | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 58.22; 58.125 | |||||
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Personal Enemy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harrogate | 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Before Anger - Two Early Plays, Oberon Books, London (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029031 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8242 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton | |||||
| a vivid depiction of the political and sexual paranoia that gripped America in the 1950s at the height of McCarthyism, when the public enemy suddenly became a lot more personal. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tomorrow With Pictures | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric, Hammersmith | 1961 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137321 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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