The Life of Christopher Marlowe
A brief outline of Marlowe's life, only really useful if you know nothing about him. This site is aimed at school age kids, so following the other links will be a bit of a disappointment to theatre fans.
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
Quite a scholarly site, this. The full text of all the works, with, for Faust, various versions available for comparison.
Christopher Marlowe
From TheatreHistory.com. A biography from 1911.
Philip Massinger
From TheatreHistory.com. A biography from 1906.
The Plays of Thomas Middleton Online
Thomas Middleton lived from, approximately, 1570 to 1677, which makes him a contemporary of Shakespeare and the other great Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists. This is an academic site, which features all Middleton's plays.
Anthony
Minghella
Biography and FAQ, details of his films and plays, and a section entitled
In his own words, a piece about film-making. The section on Books
and Publications is now online, and there is a new section entitled
Just for Fun.
Anthony
Minghella - The Storyteller Website
Biography, a survey of his work, an interview - the site is pretty
comprehensive and has Minghella's approval.
The Monsterists
The Monsterists are playwrights David Eldridge, Moira Buffini, Richard
Bean, Roy Williams, Sarah Woods, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Colin Teevan,
Ryan Craig, Shelley Silas and Jonathan Lewis, who are campaigning
to promote new writing of large-scale work in the British theatre.
Facinating site, which is still be developed but well worth a visit.
Kim Morrissey
Kim Morrissey is a Canadian writer, but she has had two plays produced (one premiered) in London, so she gets in! Details of the two plays, Dora and Clever as Paint: The Rossettis in Love.
Anthony Minghella (BBC)
From the BBC Artzone: a three page profile and audio clips.
Terry
Mustoo
Writes pantos for amateurs, all of which have been performed by the
Wesley Players of Upminster. He has also written a musical about Sherlock
Holmes. There are synopses online.
The New Writing Company
Based in Bristol. "The aims of the company are to create a forum
for new writing and new writers around the area who need a vehicle
to show their work. To that end we are collaborating with directors
and theatre practitioners who support new work and enjoy engaging
with new voices." Their manifesto and details of productions.
New Writing Theatres
Advice on submitting new writing to various theatres.
Ivor Novello (The Knitting Circle)
From the Staff Lesbian and Gay Association of the South Bank University. A biography, his work as writer and actor, a bibliography and press "cuttings".
Joe Orton (The Knitting Circle)
From the Staff Lesbian and Gay Association of the South Bank University. Biography, work, bibliography and press "cuttings".
Joe Orton
A brief collection of facts about and a bibliography for Orton, compiled by the About Guide to Biography and Memoir, Patricia Sarles.
Joe Orton
Interview
An interview (from a theatre programme) in 1967.
Gary
Owen: A New York Diary
Welsh playwright Gary Owen writes a very amusing diary of his first
trip to New York. From the Theatre in Wales site.
Pantomime on the Web
Jon Keen, of the Crowthorne Amateur Theatre Society, has written pantos
of all kinds. The site is still under construction (but the last update
was June 1997!), so there's not a great deal there. Frankly, the only
page worth going to lists
his pantos, with details of who has done them. There are no links
to the shows themselves, however, nor any examples online.
Pier Playwrights
Pier Playwrights is an organisation for playwrights run by playwrights.
It exists to develop and promote new writing for the theatre and other
media in the South East of England. The site outlines the benefits
to members and has a private members' area.
www.HaroldPinter.org
A site devoted to the work of Harold Pinter. It covers all aspects
of his work - theatre, poetry, prose, politics, acting, directing
- in detail. An essential sirte for Pinter fans and those who want
to know more about this very significant figure in British theatre.
Harold Pinter
A Finnish site set up in 1997. A brief biography and a list of selected plays, plus links to some of Pinter's screenplays.
Harold Pinter (Moonstruck site)
A biography and an additional page listing his plays, films and other works.
George Peele
From TheatreHistory.com. A biography from 1911.
Mary Pix (1666-1724)
A brief intro to this rather conservative female playwright.
Player Playwrights
An organisation set up in 1948 to enable playwrights to have their work produced in rehearsed reading format by professional and talented amateur actors. It is based in London. Everything you need to know about the group, including their catalogue of members' plays, is on the site.
Playwrights' Co-operative
A catalogue of members' plays and an invitation to playwrights to
join the organisation, together with reasons why it is in their interest
to do so.
Playwrights & Their Plays
(doollee.com)
A information-packed site: 4,722 playwrights and their plays individually
listed, 18,433 plays with links to their playwrights, numbers of male/female
parts in each play.
Playwrights on the Web
A database of playwrights with websites, plus a BBS and a noticeboard with announcements about markets, competitions and meetings. Although this is a UK-based site, most of the announcements tend to be US-centric.
Playwrights Publishing Company
Run by Tony Breeze (qv). A small independent UK firm run by a playwright for playwrights. The full catalogue of full-length and one-act plays is online.
Jonathan Posner
Jonathan Posner writes the books and lyrics for musicals, and there are details of three of his shows on this site, as well as something about his philosophy of the musical (he's not keen on sung-through shows) and a quiz about musicals..
The Unofficial
Dennis Potter Homepage
A good resource, featuring a biography and details of his works,with
individual pages devoted to Pennies from Heaven, The Singing
Detective, Lipstick on Your Collar and Karaoke.
