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British playwright
Christopher Godfrey Bond (born 1945, in Sussex, England, UK)
[1] is a British actor,
playwright and
theatre director whose 1970 retelling
[2] of the
Victorian tale
Sweeney Todd formed the basis of
Stephen Sondheim's
musical of the same name, with book by
Hugh Wheeler. He wrote this while he was resident dramatist at
Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent (1970–71). He was artistic director of the
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1976–78), director of
Liverpool Playhouse (1981–83), and artistic director of
Half Moon Theatre (1984–89).
[3] He lives in West
Cornwall.
Plays
- Mountain Fire
- Mutiny (1970)
- Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1970)
- Simple Simon (1971)
- Not So Simple Simon (1971)
- Shem's Boat (1971)
- Downright Hooligan (1972)
- Judge Jeffreys (1973)
- Tarzan's Last Stand (1973)
- The Country Wife (1974)
- Under New Management (1975)
- The Cantril Tales (1975)
- The Adventures of Finn McCool (1976)
- George (1976)
- Good Soldier Scouse (1976)
- Scum: Death, Destruction, and Dirty Washing (1976)
- The Beggars Opera (1977)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1981)
- Gone To Jesus (1982)
- Dracula (1984)
- Spend, Spend, Spend (1985)
- All the Fun of the Fair (1986)
- El Sid (1988)
- Mysterie of Maria Marten (1991)
- Roll With the Punches (1996)
- The Blood of Dracula (1997)
- Alice on the Underground (2004)
- Hubble Bubble (2004)
- Don Quixote Rides Again (2005)
- It's A Fine Life! (2006)
[4]
- Romford Rose (with Jo Collins, 2016)
[5]
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