Emlyn Williams

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Plays authored

• Accolade
• Beth
• Bleak House
• The Corn is Green
• Dear Evelyn
• Druid’s Rest
• Dylan Thomas Growing Up
• Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens
• Full Moon
• He Was Born Gay
• The Late Christopher Bean
• The Light of Heart
• Morning Star
• The Morning Star
• A Murder Has Been Arranged
• Night Must Fall
• Saki
• Someone Waiting
• Spring 1600
• Spring, 1600
• Trespass
• The Wind of Heaven
• Yesterday’s Magic

Past productions

• Star Quality, Theatre Royal Bath 21^st November 1982, Theatre Royal, Bath.
• Dylan Thomas Growing Up 3^rd March – April 1980, Ambassadors Theatre, London.
• Performer, Saki started September 1977, Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London.
• Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens 4^th February – March 1975, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
• performer, The World of One Man Shows, John Counsell and Theatre Royal Windsor Trust 10^th September 1967, Theatre Royal, Windsor.
• English Version by / Ignaty Illyich, A Month in the Country, Emile Littler, Michael Redgrave Productions Ltd, and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 23^rd September 1965 – 1966, Cambridge Theatre, London.
• Adapted by, A Month in the Country, Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company 4^th – 22^nd June 1963, Nottingham Playhouse (Goldsmith Street).
• Adaptation, A Month in the Country, Thorndike Repertory Company 2^nd – 13^th October 1962, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead.
• Lunch Hour started 10^th April 1961, Golders Green Hippodrome.
• A Slight Ache started 10^th April 1961, Golders Green Hippodrome.
• The Form started 10^th April 1961, Golders Green Hippodrome.
• Mr Chacterson, The Form started 21^st January 1961, Arts Theatre, London.
• The Man, Lunch Hour started 18^th January 1961, Arts Theatre, London.
• Edward, A Slight Ache started 18^th January 1961, Arts Theatre, London.
• The Author, Shadow of Heroes started 7^th October 1958, Piccadilly Theatre, London.
• Director, Beth 1957 – 1958, Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London.
• Angelo, Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company 14^th August 1956 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Iago, Othello, Royal Shakespeare Company 29^th May 1956 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Shylock, The Merchant of Venice, Royal Shakespeare Company 17^th April 1956 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Measure for Measure 1955 – 1956, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Under Milk Wood 1953 – 1954, The Old Vic, London.
• Director (pre-West End) / Fenn, Someone Waiting, H M Tennent Ltd 14^th September 1953 – 12^th June 1954, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, Opera House, Manchester, and other locations.
• Performing as Charles Dickens, Bleak House 11^th August – October 1952, Ambassadors Theatre, London, Opera House, Manchester, and other locations.
• Charles Dickens, Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens 29^th October 1951 – 19^th January 1952, Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), London, Criterion Theatre, London, and other locations.
• Will Trenting, Accolade, H M Tennent, in association with Joshua Logan and Leland Hayward 31^st July 1950 – 10^th February 1951, Aldwych Theatre, London, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, and other locations.
• Director / Saviello, Trespass, H M Tennent Ltd and Stephen Mitchell 9^th June – 29^th November 1947, Opera House, Manchester, Globe (Shaftesbury Ave), London (now Gielgud Theatre, London), and other locations.
• Director, Dear Evelyn 11^th March – 20^th April 1946, King’s Theatre, Southsea and Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth.
• Sir Robert Morton, The Winslow Boy 25^th February 1946 – 19^th July 1947, Bristol Hippodrome, Theatre Royal, Brighton, and other locations.
• Director, Spring, 1600 1945 – 1946, Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal.
• Ambrose Ellis / Director, The Wind of Heaven 19^th February – 1^st December 1945, Bristol Hippodrome, King’s Theatre, Glasgow, and other locations.
• Director, Watch on the Rhine 22^nd April 1942 – 4^th December 1943, Aldwych Theatre, London.
• Dan / Director, Night Must Fall 8^th March – 31^st July 1943, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, and other locations.
• Director, Watch on the Rhine started 1943, Bristol Hippodrome and Royal Opera House, Leicester.
• Director, The Little Foxes 21^st October – 21^st November 1942, Piccadilly Theatre, London.
• Cliff Parrilow / Producer, The Morning Star 1^st December 1941 – 12^th December 1942, Globe (Shaftesbury Ave), London (now Gielgud Theatre, London) and Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
• Director / Maddoc Thomas, The Light of Heart 21^st February 1940 – 1^st November 1941, Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London and Globe (Shaftesbury Ave), London (now Gielgud Theatre, London).
• The Stars Look Down, The Marlowe Society Cambridge and A.D.C. 14^th – 16^th March 1940, Cambridge Arts Theatre.
• Director, The Corn is Green 1939 – 1940, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• Director / Morgan Evans, The Corn is Green, Stephen Mitchell 15^th August 1938 – 15^th June 1940, Duchess Theatre, London, Opera House, Manchester, and other locations.
• Richard III 1937 – 1938, The Old Vic, London.
• Measure for Measure 1937 – 1938, The Old Vic, London.
• Author / Co-director / Lambert, He Was Born Gay started 26^th May 1937, Queen’s Theatre, (Shaftesbury Ave) London (now Sondheim Theatre, London).
• Measure for Measure 1936 – 1937, The Old Vic, London.
• Dan / Director, Night Must Fall 28^th September – November 1936, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.
• Dan, Night Must Fall 29^th April 1935 – 20^th June 1936, Duchess Theatre, London and King’s Theatre, Edinburgh.
• Lord Lebanon, The Case of the Frightened Lady 10^th October 1932 – February 1933, Belasco Theatre, New York.
• Jack, Man Overboard!, Leon M Lion 6^th – 21^st May 1932, Garrick Theatre, London.
• Lord Lebanon, The Case of the Frightened Lady, Mrs Edgar Wallace 18^th August 1931 – 6^th February 1932, Wyndham’s Theatre, London.
• Producer, A Murder Has Been Arranged 26^th November 1930 – 31^st January 1931, St James’s Theatre, London.
• Commissar Neufeld, The Mouthpiece 20^th – 29^th November 1930, Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

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