The Playwrights Database
ANTHONY CREIGHTON (1922 - 2005)
Nationality: Britishemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: n/a
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
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Stageplays.com amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
below is a list of Anthony Creighton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Epitaph For George Dillon Personal Enemy Tomorrow With PicturesEpitaph For George Dillon
a mediocre artist is planted into the weed patch of petite bourgeois suburbia
Notes:
written by John Osborne And Anthony Creighton. Produced Royal Court London, 11 Feb 1958
1st Produced:
Oxford University Experimental Club Feb 1957
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1958 978-0571230884
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: -
Further Reference:
Wearing - The London Stage 58.22; 58.125
Top of PagePersonal Enemy
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.
Notes:
written by John Osborne And Anthony Creighton
1st Produced:
Harrogate 1955
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageTomorrow With Pictures
Synopsis:
-
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
Lyric, Hammersmith 1961
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page