Stage Plays
- Afore Night Come, Royal Shakespeare Company at the Arts Theatre, directed by Clifford Williams (1962)
- Burglars, a short children's play originally written for radio, Oval House Theatre (1968)
- The Filth Hunt, one-act play, InterAction at the Almost Free Theatre (1972)
- Ashes, Stadsteater Hamburg (1973), Open Space Theatre (1974), staged off-Broadway in 1977 and winner of an Obie award[6]
- The Sons of Light, Tyneside Theatre Company (1976); revised for the RSC at The Other Place (1977)
- Sovereignty Under Elizabeth, one-act play, InterAction at the Almost Free Theatre (1977)
- Hansel and Gretel, RSC, The Other Place (1980)
- The Triumph of Death, Birmingham Rep (1981)
- Space Invaders, one-act play, RSC Youth Festival, Stratford (1983)
- Will's Way, monologue spoken by Shakespeare, RSC Youth Festival, Stratford (1984)
- The Saxon Shore, Almeida Theatre (1986)
- John Piper in the House of Death, after Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Central School of Speech and Drama (1991)
- Symphonie Pathétique (commissioned for the centenary of the death of Tchaikovsky) (1992), unperformed
- Trade (1997), unperformed
- Red Sun, AJTC touring production (2003)
- The Master and Margarita dramatised from Mikhail Bulgakov for the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (2004)
- Merlin Unchained, Aberystwyth University, directed by David Ian Rabey (2009)
Television Plays
- The Stone Dance, ATV, starring Michael Bryant, John Hurt, Michael Hordern and Rachel Thomas, directed by Peter Wood (1963)
- Children Playing, ATV, directed by Peter Wood (1967)
- House of Character, BBC Wednesday Play (1967)
- Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage, BBC Wednesday Play (1969)
- Bypass, BBC, starring Bob Peck (1972)
- Atrocity, BBC (1973)
- Penda's Fen, BBC Play for Today directed by Alan Clarke (1974)
- Churchill's People, BBC (1975), two episodes;
- Pritân
- The Coming of the Cross
- A Ghost Story for Christmas, BBC, one episode;
- The Ash Tree, adaptation of the M. R. James story, (1975)
- Leap in the Dark, BBC, one episode;
- Artemis 81, BBC, starring Hywel Bennett, Roland Curram, Dan O'Herlihy, Ian Redford, Dinah Stabb, and Sting (1981)
- Across the Water, BBC, starring Liam Neeson (1983)
- White Lady, BBC, directed by the author (1986)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, adaptation for Thames TV (1991)
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Radio Plays
- Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin (1973)
- The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock (1993) Won a Society of Authors award and a Sony Radio Award for Richard Griffiths
- The Haunting of Mahler (1994)
- The Giant's Cause (2004) About Finn MacCoul
- Macedonia (2015) About Euripides
Film
- Mademoiselle, script doctoring (1966)
- Fahrenheit 451, translation and additional scriptwriting (1966)
- Testimony, based on the memoirs of Shostakovich as dictated in the book Testimony (1987)
- December Bride, based on the 1951 novel by Sam Hanna Bell (1990)
- The Woodlanders, adapted from Thomas Hardy's novel (1997) Won Best Film at the Shanghai International Film Festival
Translations
- The Persians by Aeschylus, BBC Radio 3, with Donald Wolfit as Ghost of Darius (1965)
- Hecuba by Euripides, BBC Radio 3, directed by John Tydeman (1975)
- Hippolytus by Euripides, Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Ron Daniels with Natasha Parry as Phaedra, Michael Pennington as Hippolytus, and Patrick Stewart as Theseus (1978); directed for Radio 3 by John Tydeman (1984) with Siân Phillips as Phaedra
- Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, RSC (1983)
- Deathwatch by Jean Genet, RSC at The Pit (1987)
- The Maids by Jean Genet, RSC at The Pit, (1987); revived at the Donmar Warehouse in 1997, directed by John Crowley, with Josette Simon, Niamh Cusack, and Kerry Fox[7]
- Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen, Radio 3, directed by John Tydeman with Lindsay Duncan as Rebecca West and Charles Kay as Professor Kroll (1990)
- When We Dead Waken by Henrik Ibsen, Almeida Theatre, directed by Jonathan Kent with Claire Bloom as Irena (1990)
Opera Libretti
- Moses and Aaron, translation of Arnold Schoenberg's libretto, Royal Opera House, directed by Peter Hall, conducted by Georg Solti (1964)
- The Grace of Todd, one-act comic opera by Gordon Crosse, Aldeburgh Festival (1969)
- Broken Strings, one-act opera by Param Vir, originally produced by Pierre Audi at De Nederlandse Opera (1992)[8]
- Inquest of Love, script doctoring work for Jonathan Harvey's opera, English National Opera (1993)[9]
- Black Feather Rising, music theatre piece by Param Vir, Toneelschuur and tour of the Netherlands (2008)[10]
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