Ian Burford














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These are some of my written works, published and unpublished:

PLAYS:
I Told You Cassandra
Pray for a Cool Summer
Quartet for Lovers (in collaboration with Hugh Ross Williamson; Repertory Theatre Performance)
Garments(Performed at the Little Theatre St Martin's Lane And at the King's Head Islington. Also bought for BBC Radio and performed by Fenella Fielding and Paul Edington. Also Special Performance at the Chapel of Kings College, Strand. Also at Toronto University)
Mother Will You Please Sit Down (At The Little Theatre)
If You Were the Only (At the Little Theatre)

(The last three form a trilogy of One Act Plays, performed as such by students)
 
WHITE PAINT TV Play written for IB. HRW and Vida Hope. at instigation of Bryan Michie of TVW. on the suggestion that a talks department might just be expanded into a drama dept.Hence the rather strange form of this piece. White Elephant might have been a more appropriate title

MUSICALS:

Excuse Me For Living With music by Anthony Bowles
One Note Out Loud a Rodger and Hart Compilation
Promises Promises A Compilation,
(Not the later West End and Broadway Musical of the same name.)
These three all at Lamda.
MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE 1960 Musical adaptation of the Novel by Francis Brett Young.
Book and Lyrics by Ian Burford and Hugh Ross Williamson.
Music by Cyril Horrocks.
1966 LOVE 'AN ALL THAT TV Play.
1967
Three Stories for PLAY SCHOOL:
  27 Feb. "The Magic Man of Colchester"
    3 Mar. "The Wishing Well in the Endrick Valley"
    1 Mar. "The Hole in the Stone of Cornwall"
All three read by and commissioned for Betty Turner by Cynthia Felgate.
 
The Three part story that I had written for Betty at her request called:
"Fred the Giant Who Wanted to Make Friends" was reduced and retitled
"Fred the Friendly Giant" and broadcast in the same week on 2 March 1967
NOVELS
One Novel is complete: Daddy's Motor Bike.
Also adapted as a 90Minute Television Play.
Two other Novels are in preparation, and an Autobiography provisionally entitled Performing Dog.





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