PHIL WILLMOTT
Writing for Stage

Most of my scripts have received successful professional premieres, are published and are available for revival subject to agreement including THE 3 DICK BARTON COMEDIES, LYSISTRATA, UNCLE EBENEZER - A CHRISTMAS CAROL
& AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
If you'd be interested in reading or producing anything profiled below please email me.

Amateur rights available subject to agreement.
For an amateur license please email me the name of your chosen show,
your performance dates and times and the name and seating capacity of your venue
Theatres seating over 200 - £75 per performance
Theatres seating 100 - 200 - £65 per performance
Theatres seating under 100 - £55 per performance

Phil.willmott@btinternet.com

Clive Carter one of the many
brilliant actors to play Dick Barton
Dick Barton Special Agent
&
Dick Barton and the Curse if the Pharaoh's Tomb
&
Dick Barton and the Tango of Terror
All three special agent spoofs commissioned by and performed for record breaking runs at Croydon Warehouse and national touring. Published by Oberon Books.
More details from: dick barton warehouse theatre

The London Nativity
Adapted from the Medieval Mystery plays and performed in an open air promenade production at the Scoop, on the South bank for Christmas 2004

 
The Master's Boy
A Gay appropriation of Strindberg's Miss Julie

Femme Fatale
Film Noir musical comedy, Score written with Stefan Bednarcyk.
Commissioned and performed by Croydon Warehouse Theatre then tour Published by Oberon Books.

Mermaid Sandwich
Comedy drama exploring the love between a gay man and his straight friends. London Fringe and BBC Radio4

Stealing the Scene
Comedy drama in which two delinquent teenage brothers kidnap a gay actor for career and sexuality advice! London Fringe & BBC Radio 4

The Business of Blackmail
Youth Theatre Musical set in Bath's Regency Pleasure Gardens with score by Julie Edgell created for Musical Youth in Bristol and revived in 2004

Succulence
Surreal gothic comedy drama in which a show tune obsessed demon literally devours the inhabitants of an apathetic city despite the best endeavours of it's priest!
 Commissioned and workshopped by The Royal Court, London and New Dramatists, New York. Winner of the New York Brook Atkinson Award.

Curiosity
Bizarre juxtaposition of WW1 trench warfare, contemporary corporate down sizing  and rat catchers!
Workshopped at the Old Red Lion currently unperformed

Stupid Cupid
Award winning 50's pop compilation musical comedy about coming out in 1950's Peckham and Hollywood's hidden gay stars. Commissioned by Gay Sweatshop for a record breaking National Tour

Iago
Shakespeare's Othello from Iago's perspective. London Fringe

The Wax King
Adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI parts 1 -3. London Fringe

Midsummer Madness
Musical comedy adapted from Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream, Music by pop group Madness commissioned by Pola Jones - currently unperformed

The Trouble with Listening
Creepy, 1 act duologue exploring the repercussions of a train crash for a survivor and a victim. Off West End - Soho Theatre Company

 
Michael Grandage as Clive Gosling in Venom
Venom
Comedy Drama about the unstoppable, ruthlessly destructive ambition of a Cowardesqe playwright in 1920's high society. Off West End - The Drill Hall

"A savagely funny drama. Present
Laughter rewritten in blood and acid"
THE SPECTATOR
"A scintillating comedy of bad manners."
 SUNDAY EXPRESS

 
Andrew Louden in the title role with Stuart
Morris as young Billy in Dick Daredevil at The Drill Hall
Dick Daredevil
Family Musical about a boy and his superhero idol in WW2 London. Score by Steve Markwick. Commissioned by and performed at the Drill Hall

"Keeps the laughs flowing"
TIME OUT
Radio adventure serials and Broadway musicals provide the raw material for writer Phil Willmott and composer Steven Markwick.
THE TIMES
"Mixes Flash Gordon with Lional Bart's Blitz!"
WHAT'S ON
"This is a musical comedy that's about the family, In particular about the role of father's and the needs of sons"
THE INDEPENDENT

 
Dracula
Adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker - Commissioned by and performed at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Critics Choice TIME OUT
 

The Castle Spectre
Adapted from the play by Monk Lewis Commissioned by and performed at Croydon Warehouse

 
Uncle Ebenezer - A Christmas Carol
Musical adapted from Charles Dickens, Score from classic tunes. Commissioned by and performed at Battersea Arts Centre. Also numerous US productions. Published by Oberon Books.

“IF YOU SEE ONE CHRISTMAS SHOW THIS SEASON, SEE THIS ONE.”
“Willmott once again meets everyone’s great expectations. This time instead of simply directing a classic, he’s written it as well.”
THE EVENING STANDARD

Lysistrata
Adapted with Germaine Greer from the anti-war sex comedy by Aristophanes. Published by Arora Metro press and performed at Battersea Arts Centre

Don Juan in Kingston
Pop Compilation musical commissioned and performed to launch The Rose of Kingston Theatre


Rae Baker as Aouda and Bill Ward as
Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days at BAC
Around the World in Eighty Days
A musical adapted from the novel by Jules Verne, score composed with Annemarie Lewis Thomas. Originally commissioned by and performed at Battersea Arts Centre then at Liverpool Playhouse and on national tour. Published by Samuel French and regularly revived internationally.
“NOWHERE IN THE WEST END WILL YOU SEE THEATRE
 AS INNOVATIVE, EXCITING AND ENCHANTING"
“It is very special - and should not be missed”
MUSICAL STAGES
“IRRESISTIBLY AMUSING”
“Tunes by the writer-director.. echo the style of Old Broadway”.
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Everything's Terrific - Help
Agony Aunt musical with score by Geoff Stephens,  and Lyrics by Don Black.  National Theatre Studio

Henry VIII
Shakespeare's Henry VIII adapted for a contemporary Westminster setting. Off West End at the Bridewell Theatre

Measure for Measure Malaya
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure relocated to 1930's British colonial Malaya. Off West End at the Riverside Studios

Wolf Boys
Kids musical based on the Romulus and Remus Myth. Score written with Annemarie Thomas. Commissioned by and performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford by their Youth Theatre.