1989-2005

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THE PAINTER OF DISHONOUR (The Pit, London EC2; opened 21 May, 1996)

PAINT YOUR WAGON (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London NW1; opened 26 July, 1996)

PAINTING CHURCHES (Playhouse Theatre, London WC2; opened 22 January, 1992)

PAJAMA MEN: STOP NOT GOING (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh; opened 7 August, 2005)

PAL JOEY in GLASGOW CITIZENS NOVEMBER OPENINGS (2000)

PAL JOEY (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich; opened 5 March, 2002)

PANDORA 88 in EDINBURGH FRINGE 3 (2003)

PANTAGLEIZE (Canal Café Theatre, London W2; opened 29 January, 1991)

PAPER WORLD in EDINBURGH FRINGE 2 (2004)

PARADISE LOST (Old Vic, Bristol; opened 3 February, 2004)

PARADISE LOST (Royal Theatre, Northampton; opened 3 February, 2004)

PARADISE TOMORROW (Gate Theatre, London W11; opened 10 July, 2001)

PART TROLL [BILL BAILEY] (Wyndham's Theatre, London WC2; opened 13 October, 2003)

PARTY TIME/MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE (Almeida Theatre, London N1; opened 6 November, 1991)

PASSAGE in EDINBURGH FRINGE THEATRE 2 (1999)

A PASSAGE TO INDIA (Lyric Hammersmith, London W6; opened 17 September, 2004)

PATRICKS' DAY (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh; August, 1991)

PATRICKS' DAY in EDINBURGH FRINGE 1 (1991)

PAUL (National Theatre [Cottesloe], London SE1; opened 9 November, 2005) in PROMPT CORNER 23/2005

PEA GREEN BOAT [STEWART LEE] (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; August, 2002)

PEA GREEN BOAT [STEWART LEE] in EDINBURGH FRINGE 4

PEASOUPER (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh; August, 1995)

PEDRO, THE GREAT PRETENDER (Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon; opened 9 September, 2004)

PEER GYNT (Manchester Royal Exchange; opened 16 February, 1999)

PEER GYNT in GLASGOW CITIZENS NOVEMBER OPENINGS (2000)

PEER GYNT (Arcola Theatre, London E8; opened 7 February, 2003)

PEER GYNT (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; August, 2004)

PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (Shaftesbury Theatre, London WC2; opened 20 August, 2001)

PENN AND TELLER (Sadler's Wells Theatre, London EC1; opened 23 April, 1996)

PENNY BLUE (Greenwich Theatre, London SE10; opened 3 July, 1995)

A PENNY FOR A SONG (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond; opened 7 December, 1992)

THE PEOPLE ARE FRIENDLY (Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, London SW1; opened 12 June, 2002)

THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR in EDINBURGH FRINGE 1 (2003)

PEOPLE SHOW 113: BABY JANE in EDINBURGH FRINGE 4 (2003)

PERFECT PITCH (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough; opened 7 July, 1998)

PERFORMANCES (Gate Theatre, Dublin; opened 30 September, 2003)

THE LEGEND OF PERICLES (Riverside Studios, London W6; opened 7 November, 1996)

THE ADVENTURES OF PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (Ludlow Castle; opened 24 June, 2000)

PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (The Roundhouse, London NW1; opened 5 July, 2002)

PERICLES ("The Warehouse", Mandela Way, London SE1; opened 24 July, 2003)

THE PERMANENT WAY (Theatre Royal, York; opened 14 November, 2003)

THE PERMANENT WAY (National Theatre [Cottesloe], London SE1; opened 13 January, 2004) in PROMPT CORNER 04/2004

PERRIER COMEDY AWARD [EDINBURGH COLUMN 4] (Edinburgh; August 2005)

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE(Bristol Old Vic; opened 15 November, 1996)

RUSSELL PETERS: COMEDY CHAMELEON (Scotsman Assembly, Edinburgh; August, 2000)

RUSSELL PETERS: COMEDY CHAMELEON in EDINBURGH FRINGE 2: COMEDY (2000)

PHAEDRA in BELFAST FESTIVAL AT QUEEN'S (1997)

PHAEDRA (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; opened 18 April, 2000)

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Her Majesty's Theatre, London SW1; opened 9 October, 1986 – reviewed December, 1991)

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (The Original Stage Musical) (Shaftesbury Theatre, London WC2; opened 18 December, 1991)

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! (King's Head Theatre, London N1; opened 4 June, 1992)

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (Royal Exchange Theatre at Upper Campfield Market, Manchester; opened 11 July, 1996)

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (The Old Vic, London SE1; opened 10 May, 2005) in PROMPT CORNER 10/2005

THE PHILANDERER (Hampstead Theatre, London NW3; opened 19 November, 1991)

PHOENIX (Bush Theatre, London W12; opened 24 July, 1992)

PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds; opened 15 September, 1998)

THE PICK OF LONDON'S SECOND ONE-PERSON PLAY FESTIVAL (BAC [Battersea Arts Centre], London SW11; opened 29 October, 1996)

KEN CAMPBELL'S PIDGIN MACBETH (Royal National Theatre [Cottesloe], London SE1; opened 25 July, 1998)

THE PIG IN THE SNAKE! [WILL DURST] (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; August, 2002)

PIGSPURT! (Riverside Studios, London W6; opened 6 March, 1992)

PILGERMANN (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds; opened 20 June, 1995)

PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY (National Theatre [Lyttelton], London SE1; opened 1 November, 2005) in PROMPT CORNER 22/2005

PINK ORTHODOX (Riverside Studios, London W6; opened 25 May, 2001)

PINOCCHIO (Nottingham Playhouse/Sadler's Wells Theatre, London EC1; opened 21 June, 1995)

PINOCCHIO (Birmingham Rep; opened 3 December, 1996)

PINOCCHIO IN VENICE (Cambridge Arts Theatre/touring; opened 5 June, 1997)

PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT (Gate Theatre, London W11; opened 22 February, 1991)

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park/touring; opened 29 August, 2001)

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Savoy Theatre, London WC2; opened 8 January, 2004) in PROMPT CORNER 01-02/2004 (edited)

A PLACE AT THE TABLE (Bush Theatre, London W12; opened  11 February, 2000)

A PLACE WITH THE PIGS (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; August, 1995)

PLAN B (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London SE1; opened 16 January, 2004)

PLATONOV (Almeida Theatre at King's Cross, London N1; opened 11 September, 2001)

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (Cottesloe Theatre, London SE1; opened 20 February, 2001)

PLAYBOY OF THE WEST INDIES (Tricycle Theatre, London NW6; opened 6 December, 2004)

PLAYHOUSE CREATURES (Old Vic Theatre, London SE1; opened 15 September, 1997)

PLAYING THE VICTIM in EDINBURGH FRINGE 4 (2003)

PLAYING WITH FIRE (National Theatre [Olivier], London SE1; opened 21 September, 2005)

PLAYING WITH FIRE (National Theatre [Olivier], London SE1; opened 21 September, 2005) in PROMPT CORNER 19/2005

THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE (Wyndham's Theatre, London WC2; opened 5 November, 2001)

PLAY WITH COCAINE (New Grove Theatre, London NW1; opened 5 March, 1993)

THE PLEASURE MAN in GLASGOW CITIZENS FEBRUARY OPENINGS (2000)

THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (Barbican Theatre, London EC2; opened 19 January, 2005)

THE POCKET DREAM (Albery Theatre, London WC2; opened 4 March, 1992)

POISON (Tricycle Theatre, London NW6; opened 21 February, 2000)

POLAROID SUITCASE [GARY LE STRANGE] in EDINBURGH FRINGE 6 (2003)

POLITICS [RICKY GERVAIS] (Palace Theatre, London WC2; opened 31 May, 2004)

POOR BEAST IN THE RAIN in THE WEXFORD TRILOGY (1992)

POOR BEAST IN THE RAIN in THE WEXFORD TRILOGY (2000)

POP in EDINBURGH FRINGE 2 (1991)

POPPY DAY in EDINBURGH FRINGE THEATRE/COMEDY 3 (1999)

PORT AUTHORITY (New Ambassadors Theatre, London WC2; opened 22 February, 2001)

LUCY PORTER in EDINBURGH FRINGE 6 (2003)

LUCY PORTER: HAPPINESS in EDINBURGH FRINGE COMEDY (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh; August, 2005)

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN in EDINBURGH FRINGE 3 (1996)

THE POSITIVE HOUR (Hampstead Theatre, London NW3; opened 4 March, 1997)

POSTCARDS FROM AMERICA in RSC NEW WORK FESTIVAL (Cox's Yard, Stratford-upon-Avon; opened 19 October, 2005)

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds; opened 22 September, 2004)

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (Playhouse Theatre, London WC2; opened 7 June, 2005)

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (Playhouse Theatre, London WC2; opened 7 June, 2005) in PROMPT CORNER 12/2005

THE POWERBOOK (Royal National Theatre [Lyttelton], London SE1; opened 18 May, 2002)

THE POWER OF THE DOG (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond; opened 13 May, 1996)

PRAYER ROOM (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; opened 22 August, 2005)

PRESENT LAUGHTER (Birmingham Rep; opened 27 June, 2000)

THE PRESIDENT OF AN EMPTY ROOM (National Theatre [Cottesloe], London SE1; opened 28 June, 2005)

THE PRESIDENT OF AN EMPTY ROOM (National Theatre [Cottesloe], London SE1; opened 28 June, 2005) in PROMPT CORNER 13/2005

THE PRETENDERS (The Pit, London EC2; opened 1 October, 1991)

THE PRICE (Bristol Old Vic; opened 18 March, 1999)

THE PRICE OF MEAT (Riverside Studios, London W6; opened 17 January, 2000)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Greenwich Theatre, London SE10; opened 18 October, 2004)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Greenwich Theatre, London SE10; opened 18 October, 2004) in PROMPT CORNER 21/2004

PRIMO (Cottesloe Theatre, London SE1; opened 30 September, 2004)

PRIMO (Cottesloe Theatre, London SE1; opened 30 September, 2004) in PROMPT CORNER 20/2004

THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG (Lyric Hammersmith, London W6; opened 28 February, 2002)

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (Greenwich Theatre, London SE10; opened 21 December, 1992)

THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA (The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon; opened 18 July, 2001)

PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond; opened 6 May, 2005)

PRIVATE LIVES (Manchester Royal Exchange; opened 6 July, 1995)

PRIVATE LIVES (Lyric Hammersmith, London W6; opened 17 June, 1996)

PRIVATE LIVES (Albery Theatre, London WC2; opened 4 October, 2001)

PRIVATES ON PARADE (Donmar Warehouse, London WC2; opened 10 December, 2001)

THE PRODUCERS (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London WC2; opened 9 November, 2004)

THE PRODUCERS (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London WC2; opened 9 November, 2004) in PROMPT CORNER 23/2004

PRODUCT (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; opened 17 August, 2005)

PROFESSOR WREN'S GOLDFISH (The Smirnoff Underbelly, Edinburgh; August, 2002)

THE PROMISE (Tricycle Theatre, London NW6; opened 18 February, 2002)

PROMISES, PROMISES (Bridewell Theatre, London EC4; opened 18 July, 1996)

PROMPT CORNER 01-02/2004 (edited): His Dark Materials / Pugilist Specialist / Honeymoon Suite / The Taming Of The Shrew / The Tamer Tamed / The Pirates Of Penzance (Various venues; January, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 04/2004: Question Time / World Music / The Permanent Way / Oliver Twist /
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? / On Blindness (Various venues; February, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 05/2004: Calico / Endgame / Come Out Eli / Ladybird / The Sons Of Charlie Paora / All I Want Is A British Passport! (Various venues; February/March, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 06/2004: When The Night Begins / Macbeth / Adrenalin...Heart / Continental Divide / Red Sun / The Dark / Some Voices (Various venues; March, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 07/2004: States Of Shock / The Sweetest Swing In Baseball / Festen (Various venues; March/April, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 08/2004: The Holy Terror / Cyrano de Bergerac / Democracy / Jailhouse Rock / I Am Thicker Than Water (Various venues; April, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 09/2004: Coyote On A Fence / Hamlet / Oleanna / Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads / Follow My Leader (Various venues; April/May, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 10/2004: The History Boys / Lifegame / Rattle Of A Simple Man / Beautiful And Damned / Whistling Psyche (Various venues; May, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 11/2004: Fuddy Meers / The Black Rider / Measure For Measure / Much Ado About Nothing / A Midsummer Night's Dream / Out Of This World / Liberace's Suit (Various venues; May/June, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 12/2004: Belfast Blues / Protestants / Shining City / Othello / Henry IV part 1 / Blues For Mr Charlie / Dirty Blonde / When Harry Met Sally (Various venues; June, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 13/2004: King Lear / Measure For Measure / Country Music / Iphigenia At Aulis / Judith Bloom (Various venues; June, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 14/2004: Amajuba – Like Doves We Rise / The Old Masters / We Happy Few / A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum / Alice Through The Looking Glass (Various venues; July, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 15/2004: Galileo's Daughter / Hamlet / Sweeney Todd/ Snoopy – The Musical / Seven Doors / Death And The Maiden
(Various venues; July, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 16-17/2004: The Master And Margarita / The Master And Margarita / The Master And Margarita / The Night Season / Singin' In The Rain (Various venues; July/August, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 18/2004: The Elephant Vanishes / Two Step / Thom Pain (based on nothing)  / Bombshells (Various venues; August/September, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 19/2004: Stuff Happens / Hecuba / Embedded / The Woman In White (Various venues; September, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 20/2004: Cloaca / Buried Child / Primo / Brighton Rock / Don Juan / The Solid Gold Cadillac (Various venues; September/October, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 21/2004: Oscar Wilde / Pride And Prejudice / Little Women / Murderous Instincts (Various venues; October, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 22/2004: Bloody Mess / Tropicana / Forty Winks / Dead Hands / Becket / Simply Heavenly / Ying Tong / How To Lose Friends And Alienate People (Various venues; October/November, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 23/2004: The Producers / Hamlet / Othello / The Bacchae / Myth, Propaganda & Disaster In Nazi Germany & Contemporary America (Various venues; November, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 24/2004: By The Bog Of Cats / The Earthly Paradise / Grand Hotel / Blithe Spirit (Various venues; November/December, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 25-6/2004: Behzti / Jerry Springer – The Opera / Mary Poppins / Fix Up (Various venues; December, 2004)

PROMPT CORNER 01-02/2005: Tim Fountain – Sex Addict / Macbeth / Tejas Verdes / A Minute Too Late / Ta main dans la mienne (Various venues; January, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 03/2005: A Life In The Theatre / Acorn Antiques The Musical! / National Anthems / Colder Than Here (Various venues; February, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 04/2005: Tynan / Days Of Wine And Roses / A Dream Play (Various venues; February, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 05/2005: Mercury Fur (Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1; opened 2 March, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 06/2005: The Fortune Club / Four Knights In Knaresborough / The House Of Bernarda Alba (Various venues; March, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 07/2005: Hecuba / stoning mary / Mammals (Various venues; April, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 08/2005: The Far Pavilions / Bloody Sunday – Scenes From The Saville Inquiry / Someone Who'll Watch Over Me / My Name Is Rachel Corrie / Julius Caesar / Tristan And Yseult (Various venues; April, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 09/2005: Elmina's Kitchen / How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying / Henry IV parts 1 and 2 / The American Pilot / The Birthday Party (Various venues; April/May, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 10/2005: Theatre Of Blood / Billy Elliot The Musical / Blood Wedding / The Tempest / Incomplete And Random Acts Of Kindness / The Philadelphia Story / The Woman Before / Chronicles – A Lamentation (Various venues; May, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 11/2005: Mancub / This Is How It Goes / Some Girl(s) / Guys And Dolls / The Home Place (Various venues; May/June, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 12/2005: The Shaughraun / The Postman Always Rings Twice / The U.N. Inspector (Various venues; June, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 13/2005: Telstar – The Joe Meek Story / The President Of An Empty Room / As You Like It / East Lynne / The Government Inspector / Tierno Bokar (Various venues; June, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 14/2005: Talking To Terrorists / Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others / Shoreditch Madonna / Aristocrats / Carver (Various venues; July, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 18/2005: Into Thin Air! / A Few Good Men / Julius Caesar / Switch Triptych (Various venues; September, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 19/2005: On The Ceiling / Romance / Two Thousand Years / Playing With Fire / The Dragons' Trilogy / Hair (Various venues; September, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 20/2005: Richard II / The Lion And The Jewel / The Knight Of The Burning Pestle / Epitaph For George Dillon / Misery (Various venues; September/October, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 22/2005: The God Of Hell / And Then There Were None / Macbeth / Pillars Of The Community / Comfort Me With Apples / Glorious! / Otherwise Engaged / The World's Biggest Diamond (Various venues; October/November, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 23/2005: Tamburlaine / Paul / Scrooge / Blue Man Group (Various venues; November, 2005)

PROMPT CORNER 24/2005: The Emperor Jones / Cyprus / On Ego / Ubu The King (Various venues; November/December, 2005)

PROOF (Donmar Warehouse, London WC2; opened 15 May, 2002)

THE PROOF / THE NOTEBOOK (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; August, 2001)

PROTESTANTS (Soho Theatre + Writers' Centre, London W1; opened 8 June, 2004) in PROMPT CORNER 12/2004

PROTESTANTS / BELFAST BLUES (Soho Theatre + Writers' Centre, London W1; opened 8 / 4 June, 2004)

PROVENANCE (The Pit, London EC2; opened 29 April, 2004)

THE PROVOK'D WIFE (Old Vic Theatre, London SE1; opened 4 July, 1997)

THE PROVOKED WIFE (Southwark Playhouse, London SE1; opened 4 July, 2003)

THE PUB LANDLORD (Playhouse Theatre, London WC2; opened 19 April, 2001)

THE PUB LANDLORD: GIVING IT BOTH BARRELS (Touring; tour opened 2 October, 2003)

PUGILIST SPECIALIST in EDINBURGH FRINGE 2 (2003)

PUGILIST SPECIALIST (Soho Theatre + Writers' Centre, London W1; opened 16 January, 2004) in PROMPT CORNER 01-02/2004 (edited)

PULLING (Pleasance, Edinburgh; August, 2002)

PULL MY STRINGS (C Belle Angèle, Edinburgh; August, 2001)

THE PULL OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY / TAKE ME AWAY (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; August, 2004)

PUNCH AND JUDY / CARAVAN (Pod Deco / Aurora Nova at St Stephen's, Edinburgh; August, 2004)

PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS (Pleasance, Edinburgh; August, 2000)

PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS in EDINBURGH FRINGE 3: NOVELTY SHOWS (2000)

PUPPY LOVE [ANDREW CLOVER] (Pleasance, Edinburgh; August, 2001)

PURGATORY IN INGOLSTADT (Gate Theatre, London W11; opened 1 March, 1991)

PURPLE in SHELL CONECTIONS (2003)

PUSH UP (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court, London SW1; opened 11 February, 2002)

PUSS IN BLUE SUEDE BOOTS in CHRISTMAS SHOWS 2 (1999)

PUSS IN BOOTS (Players' Theatre, London WC2; opened 12 December, 1990)

PYGMALION (Royal National Theatre [Olivier], London SE1; opened 9 April, 1992)

PYGMIES IN THE RUINS (Royal Court Theatre, London SW1; opened 24 February, 1992)

PYRENEES (Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1; opened 30 March, 2005)
 


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