David Pinner’s plays have been widely performed in Britain – at Fortune Theatre, Arts Theatre, Soho Poly, Lyric Hammersmith, Finborough Theatre, New End Theatre, Grace Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and at Lion Theatre, New York. He has had several plays broadcast on television and radio.
As an actor, he was trained at RADA, and he has appeared in many plays in the theatre and on television and radio.
Penguin New English Dramatists published his plays, Dickon, Fanghorn and The Drums of Snow.
Oberon Books have published his plays The Stalin Trilogy, The Vampire Trilogy, Three Power Plays, The Seasons Quartet, Oh, To Be In England and his four one-act-plays, The Joy Of Misery.
Hutchinson published his novel, Ritual, which was the original seed that grew into the towering movie, The Wickerman.
His latest novel, The Wicca Woman, is published by Endeavour.
Edred, the Vampyre
The Old Red Lion, 2019, directed by Anthony Shrubsall
The Potsdam Quartet
Jermyn Street Theatre 2013
Oh, To Be in England
Finborough Theatre 2011
Midsummer
Brehmer Theater New York 2003; also directed
All Hallows’ Eve
Academy of Performing Arts Hong Kong, 2002; also directed
Lenin in Love
New End Theatre London, 2000 with James Faulkner and Francis Cuka; also translated into Russian, given a reading by the leading actors of Liubimov’s Taganka Theatre in Moscow and shown on Moscow television in 2001
The Sins of the Mother
Grace Theatre London 1996, produced by Richard Bates
The Last Englishman
Orange Tree Theatre London, 1990 with Kate O’Mara, directed by David Pinner
Skin Deep
Gateway Theatre Chester 1989, with Mark Kingston
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Gateway Theatre Cheste, 1988, with Philip Madoc as Joseph Stalin; also translated into Russian, given a reading by the leading actors of Liubimov’s Taganka Theatre in Moscow and shown on Moscow television in 2001
Revelations
Grinnell USA 1986
Screwball
Theatre Royal Plymouth 1983
An Evening with the GLC
Soho Poly 1979
Shakebag
Soho Poly London 1976
The Potsdam Quartet
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guilford 1974; The Lyric Hammersmith 1979, with Clive Swift, directed by David Giles, and at the Lion Theatre, New York, 1982, directed by Jacques Levy
Hereford the Wake
Key Theatre Peterborough 1973, as Playwright in Residence
Marriages
London Academy of Music and Drama 1972, also directed
Lucifer’s Fair
Arts Theatre London 1971, as Playwright in Residence
Cartoon
Soho Poly London 1970
Lightning at a Funeral
Stanford Repertory Theatre California 1969
The Drums of Snow
Stanford Repertory Theatre California 1968
Fanghorn
Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, 1966; Starring Glenda Jackson Fortune Theatre West End, 1967
Dickon
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch with Joseph O’Conor 1965
The Joy of Misery
Four one-act plays: Cartoon, An Evening with the GLC, Shakebag & Succubus: Oberon 2012
The Vampire Trilogy
Fanghorn, Edred, the Vampyre & Lucifer’s Fair: Oberon Modern Playwrights 2011
Oh To Be in England
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2011
Three Power Plays
The Drums of Snow, Richelieu & Prince of Traitors: Oberon Modern Playwrights 2004
The Stalin Trilogy
Lenin in Love, The Teddy Bears Picnic & The Potsdam Quartet: Oberon Modern Playwrights 2004
Newton’s Hooke
published with Carl Djerassi’s Calculus, under the generic title Newton’s Darkness: Imperial College Press 2003
Revelations
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2003
Lady Day
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2003
All Hallows’ Eve
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2002
Midsummer
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2002
The Potsdam Quartet
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2002
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2002
Lenin in Love
Oberon Modern Playwrights 2000
Shakebag
Green River Review USA 1982
The Potsdam Quartet
Terra Nova Editions 1971 and Samuel French 1981
The Drums of Snow
Penguin 1968 and Plays Of The Year 1971
Dickon
Penguin 1967
Fanghorn
Penguin and Plays and Players 1966
The Wickerman
The cult movie ( British Lion 1972) starring Christopher Lee, Brit Eckland and Edward Woodward, was based on David Pinner’s novel, Ritual, as was the remake of The Wickerman with Nicholas Cage
The Sea Horse
Thames 1985
The Potsdam Quartet
BBC 1980
Juliet and Romeo
Sud Deutscher Rundfunk 1974
The Verdict Is Yours
Granada 1970
All broadcast by the BBC...
Dickon, Lightfall, Richelieu, Kier Hardie, The Ex-Patriot, Talleyrand, Prince of Traitors, The Square on the Hypotenuse, Fangs Ain’t Wot They Used to Be & The Last Englishman
The Wicca Woman (paperback)
Levellers Press 2021
The Wicca Woman
Endeavour Press 2014
Ritual
Hutchinson 1967, Arrow 1968 & Finders Keepers 2010
There’ll Always Be an England
Anthony Blond 1985
With My Body
Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1968 & Corgi 1969
Journeys in Trance
Levellers Press 2020
Dropping Out of Seaweed Sky
Levellers Press 2017
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