Speight: Plays: If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them; The Compartment; The Knackers Yar

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Bloomsbury Academic, 1998 - Drama - 184 pages

Includes the plays If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them, The Compartment and The Knacker's Yard

Three hard-hitting plays from one of the twentieth century’s most controversial writers, best known for his legendary television series Till Death Us do Part. If There Weren’t Any Blacks You’d Have to Invent Them and the popular two-hander The Compartment, in which Michael Caine made one of his first television appearances, were broadcast by LWT and the BBC. The Knacker’s Yard was written for the stage and performed in the West End.

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About the author (1998)

Johnny Speight's enormous writing output covers TV, radio, stage and film. TV series include the outstandingly successful Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health. Other successful series include Curry and Chips and The Nineteenth Hole. Single plays include The Salesman and The Playmates. AMong his many awards he holds the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Life Time Achievement Award.

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