WILLIS HALL (1929 - 2005)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Willis Hall
All Things Bright And Beautiful |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Joseph, London | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: An exuberant and racy comedy which is yet a sad commentary on twentieth-century bureaucracy. The Hesseltines are living in property well overdue for demolition and are looking forward to being rehoused in more beautiful and salubrious surroundings. The crisis comes when they find that, far from a house with a little bit of garden, they are to live in a warrenous block of flats. . . | ||||
Azouk |
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Robin Maugham, play by Alexandre Rivemale | ||||
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Billy Liar |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge Theatre, London | 1960 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Joseph, London | 1960 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Willis Hall, from novel by Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: Less than dedicated to his job as undertaker's clerk bored with his North Country family background, Billy Fisher takes refuge in his own invented world. For Billy, an energetic imagination makes life tolerable but well-nigh intolerable for all around him. He lies his way into and out of every situation producing any explanation and making any promise that will extricate him from his present predicament, and thereby creating ever more tortuous entanglements for the immediate future. | ||||
Budgie |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse, music by Mort Shu,am, lyrics by Don Black | ||||
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Card, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
Original cast recording: First Night (OCR5) | 1973 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall; music by Tony Hatch; lyrics by Jackie Trent. Based on the novel "The Card" by Arnold Bennett | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Celebration: The Wedding And The Funeral |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1961 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Joseph, London | 1961 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: a family make preparation for wedding then six months later a funeral of their uncle who provides the link | ||||
Children's Day |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: This play concerns a party which is heard but not seen, and the effect those jollifications have on the lives of two couples; Robin and Emma, and Peter and Polly | ||||
Chin-Chin |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1960 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Francois Billetdoux | ||||
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Christmas Crackers |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | French-Heinemann, London | 1976 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Days Beginning, The: An Easter Play |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1963 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Second Windmill Book of One-Act PlaysHeinemann, London | 1963 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Easter Play | - | Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Voices at the Calvary | ||||
England, Our England |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1964 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse, music by Dudley Moore | ||||
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Filumena |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1978 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo; Written in collaboration with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: after 25 years marriage Filumena is to be thrown over for a younger woman, pretence of death cures all | ||||
Final At Furnell |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | One Act Play | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Gentle Knight, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1964 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Blackie, London | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: broadcast 1957 | ||||
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Glimpse Of The Sea, A |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1961 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Help Stamp Out Marriage! |
| 1st Produced: | Booth Theatre, New York | 1966 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Play written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. Original Broadway | ||||
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Jane Eyre |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1994 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: novel by Charlotte Bronte | ||||
Synopsis: Jane, untouched and innocent but intellectually his equal finally finds happiness with Rochester | ||||
Joey, Joey |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1966 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse, music Ron Moody | ||||
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Kidnapped At Christmas |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | French-Heinemann, London | 1975 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Last Day In Dreamland |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1961 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Long And The Short And The Tall, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1958 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1959 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Period 1942, soldiers in Malayan jungle face up to unforeseen issues of loyalty and danger | ||||
Lost Empires |
| 1st Produced: | Darlington, County Durham | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse, music Denis King, novel J.B. Priestley | ||||
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Love Game, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1964 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Marcel Achard, translated by Tamara Lo | ||||
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Mansfield Park |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1994 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: book by Jane Austen | ||||
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Our Song |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1993 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse, from Waterhouse's novel | ||||
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Peter Pan |
| 1st Produced: | RFH, London | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Imagination Entertainment | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Musical Adventure | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: book Willis Hall and lyrics by Anthony Drewe based on book by J m Barrie. Music by George Stiles | ||||
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Play Of The Royal Astrologers, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1958 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1960 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Childrens Fantasy | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 20 characters | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Poet And Pheasant |
| 1st Produced: | Watford, Hertfordshire | 1958 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London | 1959 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Lewis Jones, broadcast 1955 | ||||
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Railwayman's New Clothes |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1974 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Consious of his superior position as branch manager of a a tailor's shop Mr Lumley exercises all his guile and nearly suceeds in landing a sizeable order - but unfortunately at the last minute he is defeated by his own over confidence and over reaches himself | ||||
Return To The Sea |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1961 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: televised 1960 | ||||
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Right Christmas Caper, A |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1978 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London | 1974 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo; Written in collaboration with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: a monumental Italian family row breaks out on Saturday night, to be finally and touchingly resolved on the Monday | ||||
Say Who You Are |
| 1st Produced: | Guildford, Surrey | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1966 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse, aka Help Stamp Out Marriage | ||||
Synopsis: unmarried lover at friends flat, a telephone booth, yet another foreign film all conspire in resultant embroilments | ||||
Sponge Room, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1963 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: about three dreamers who will never have the courage to carry out their dream - for the dreams themselves are a substitute for courage | ||||
Squat Betty |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1962 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1963 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse | ||||
Synopsis: parody of the Theatre of the Absurd, who should leave whom and who should commit suicide - nobody their lives are inextricably entangled | ||||
Stag-Night |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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They Called The Bastard Stephen |
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1964 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1965 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Keith Waterhouse, aka Come Laughing Home | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques |