SCRIPTS/TREATMENTS FOR MOVIE, THEATRE, RADIO PLAYS BASED ON POETRY AND PROSE BY ROBERT GRAVES
last update: 2009-09-15 08:08:45| Title and info | Description | History |
| SONG FOR SHEBA
Type: musical libretto
Date: 1959 Achives: St John‘s College |
Musical Libretto written by Robert Graves and Jenny Nicholson based on the "Song of Songs". | Contract dated 19 March 1959 - Between Alexander Cohen & Robert Graves - Signed by Cohen only. Tyrone Guthrie was to write the music. |
| ST PETER AND THE GUNMAN/ Island of Calm/ "The Silver Key"
Type: Screenplay
Date: 1957 Achives: St John‘s College |
"The Silver Key" /"Island of Calm" (Blue Binding) - Film script by John Barnes based on "Esta en Su Casa", short story by Robert Graves. | Never produced |
| WORLD‘S DELIGHT
Type: Draft Screenplay
Date: 1952 Achives: St John‘s College |
Film script based on the "1001 Nights". Written by Graves and American director Will Price (once married to Maureen O‘Hara). | The script was written in Deya in 1952. It was to be produced by Forrest Judd and several actors were approached to play the lead including Alec Guinness and Fernadel. |
| ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN
Type: Play
Date: 1971 Achives: St John‘s College |
All Things to All Men - by Robert Graves. A play in three acts, based on St Paul. | Originated by Graves - no takers |
| THE FOOL OF ROME
Type: Draft Screenplay
Date: 1936 Achives: St John‘s College |
Graves‘s film script of I, CLAUDIUS for the Korda production | This script was not used, or was heavily modified for the shooting of the Korda‘s epic film of I, Claudius with Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon which was never completed. |
| I, CLAUDIUS
Type: Play
Date: 1971 Achives: St John‘s College |
Script of I, CLAUDIUS play by John Mortimer | performed at Queen‘s theatre - |
| I, CLAUDIUS
Type: Draft Screenplay
Date: 1958 Achives: St John‘s College |
I, CLAUDIUS - Draft Screenplay by Bridget Boland and Robert Graves. | Alec Guinness was to play Claudius. |
| YO,CLAUDIO
Type: Play
Date: 2003 Achives: Published |
Script of I, CLAUDIUS play, in Spanish, by Alonso de Santos | Pentacion production. Directed by Jose Carlos Plaza, with Hector Alterio as Claudius. Opened at the Merida Festival in 2003 with great aclaim. Then travelled around Spain. |
| SUSSANA AND THE ELDERS
Type: Draft Screenplay
Date: 1953 Achives: St John‘s College |
Screen Play by Graves/Price probably based on novel (?) by Martin Seymour Smith (See MSS letter of 27 July 1952). First draft Screen play - Ts - Paper foxed - Probably 1950‘s - 120 pp. Incomplete draft 21pp - Contains text "looks like Jeff Chandler" . This would date it around 1953/1953 | |
| THE ANGER OF ACHILLES
Type: Radio Play
Date: 1965 Achives: St John‘s College |
Radio Play based on Graves‘s "THE ANGER OF ACHILLES" (Homer‘s Iliad) - | BBC entry - "Italia Prize 1965" (Winner) |
| BUT IT STILL GOES ON -
Type: Play
Date: 1930 Achives: Published |
A play in Three Acts by Robert Graves | Commissioned in 1930 but never staged. Published in "But It Still Goes On" |
| CHRISTMAS TRUCE
Type: Draft Screenplay
Date: 1964 Achives: St John‘s College |
"Christmas Truce" - First Draft Script by Charles Frend. - Based on a Short Story by Robert Graves | |
| HORSES
Type: Play
Date: 1939 Achives: Published |
A Play for Children by Robert Graves | Published in "Occupation Writer" |
| ANTIGUA PENNY PUCE
Type: Musical Libretto
Date: 1969 Achives: St John‘s College |
Antigua, Penny, Puce - Adapted as a stage musical by Diana Morgan. | |
| GREEKS AND TROJANS
Type: Play
Date: 1950s ? Achives: St John‘s College |
Greek & Trojans - a play by Robert Graves -. | |
| LOVE
Type: Musical Libretto
Date: 1970 Achives: St John‘s College |
Libretto for Opera based on "More poems 1961" - in Swedish by Eskil Hemberg | |
| ROBERT GRAVES BIRTHDAY PLAYS
Type: Play
Date: 1950s-1960s Achives: St John‘s College |
Performed every year for Graves‘s Birthday Party in the Canellun Theatre |
