Factory Birds
The Fair Maid of the West
The Family Reunion
Lynn Farleigh
George Farquhar
David Farr
Farrah
Nicholas Farrell
Mia Farrow
Fashion
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Faust
Ray Fearon
Michael Feast
Jules Feiffer
Emma Fielding
Joseph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Peter Flannery
James Fleet
Susan Fleetwood
John Fletcher
Flight
The Fool
Footfalls
John Ford
Oliver Ford Davies
The Forest
Emilia Fox
Philip Franks
Paul Freeman
Geoffrey Freshwater
Max Frisch
Frozen Assets
Christopher Fry
Athol Fugard
English playwright, b. 1951
Peter Flannery studied drama at Manchester University and wrote his first play, Heartbreak Hotel, for Manchester's Contact Theatre, where he was working as an assistant stage manager and actor (1975). He was one of a handful of emerging new writers supported by the RSC after the opening of the Warehouse in 1977. The RSC staged Savage Amusement, set in a Manchester squat, during the second season, and Flannery stayed on to write, with his Manchester contemporary Mick Ford, a musical piece for children called The Adventures of Awful Knawful—without doubt the lightest play ever staged by the Company at its most radical address. During his two years as the RSC's resident playwright (1979-80) he wrote a long and ambitious play about corruption in public life, Our Friends in the North, chosen to open the Pit in 1982. Seven years elapsed before his next major RSC work. Written to emulate the scale, style and imaginative gratuities of Jacobean theatre, Singer was the first new play presented in the Swan.
1978 Warehouse: John Caird
The Adventures of Awful Knawful, co-written with Mick Ford (1978)
1978 Warehouse: John Caird/Howard Davies
Our Friends in the North (1982)
1982 Pit: John Caird
Heavy Days (1982)
1982 TOP, RSC Youth Festival: Nick Hamm
Silence On My Radio (1983)
1983 Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle, RSC fringe production: Brigid Larmour
Singer (1989)
1989 Swan: Terry Hands
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