Play translations
‘Andromache’ by Jean Racine
commissioned by
Cheek by Jowl - 1984
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(A production of Andromache in a revised form iwas performed in Oxford in September 2021 by the Oxford Theatre Guild)
'The Cid' by Corneille
commissioned by Cheek by Jowl 1986
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'Wide Water' a free translation and adaptation of Franz Grillparzer's 'Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen' - 1987
'Tartuffe' by Molière commissioned by Watford Palace Theatre - 1990
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'Women on Top', a free, trilingual adaptation of Molière's
'Les Femmes Savantes 'commissioned by the School of European Studies at Sussex University 1992
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'Electra' by Jean Giraudoux 1994
'Ruy Blas' by Victor Hugo, a verse translation written with the support of an Arts Council grant
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'Handling Bach' by Paul Barz translated and adapted for Greenwich Theatre 1995
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'The Prince of Homburg' by Heinrich Kleist,
co-translated with Neil Bartlett
commissioned and produced by the RSC with the Lyric Hammersmith - 2001
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Novel Translations
'Wings of Stone' from the novel 'Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt' by the Austrian writer ROBERT MENASSE commissioned & published by Calder Publications
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'The Man who Sees Ghosts' from the novel ‘Der Geisterseher’ by FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER, commissioned & published by Pushkin Press
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'The Bachelors' from the novel ‘Der Hagestolz’ by ADALBERT STIFTER, commissioned and published by Pushkin Press
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'Don Juan de la Mancha' from the novel of the same name by ROBERT MENASSE, commissioned and published by Alma Books
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Film Work
‘Salade Niçoise’ 1982 BBC translation of a Bavarian TV script of a programme on Graham Greene
'Crossing Borders’ – an Austrian documentary - translation of the commentary by Robert Menasse
‘Magellan’ – 2014 translation of a screenplay by Reinhold Bilgeri
Original Work
‘Edwin the King’ being the first part of a projected trilogy of plays with the overall title, ‘The Hammer and the Cross’ commissioned by the Theatre Royal York for the 1973 Arts Festival
‘Helter Shelter’ a post- nuclear holocaust play inspired by H.G. Wells’s ‘The Time Machine’
‘The Breakers’ a total reworking of Grillparzer’s Hero and Leander play
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‘The Late Bird’ A play conceived for television and based on the true case of a man who discovers at 60 that he was wrongly diagnosed with a fatal disease when he was 10.
‘The Passion of Kaspar Hauser’ a commissioned work for the theatre depicting the brief and tragic life of the Nuremberg foundling
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‘The Colour of Darkness’ Work in progress: the biography of Kaspar Hauser set against the times he lived in, the aftermath of the French Revolution, Napoleon and Metternich’s Restoration period
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Publications
• Blood Will Out – an article in the Times Literary Supplement to mark the bicentenary of Kaspar Hauser’s birth - Read more...


• 1982 Winds of Change - translation of autobiography of Rudolf Hauschka, founder of Wala Medicines, Steiner Book Centre,    Canada.

• 1991 The Cid, verse translation of Corneille's play in Landmarks of French Drama, Methuen, London.


• 1996 Translating the Alexandrine, in Translation Here and There, Now and Then, Elm Bank Publications, Oxford - adapted    from a paper given at St Hilda's College, Oxford.


• 2000 Wings of Stone, translation of first of Robert Menasse's novel trilogy, Calder Publications.


• 2002 The Prince of Homburg, Kleist's play co-translated with Neil Bartlett, Oberon Books.


• 2003 The Man Who Sees Ghosts, translation of Schiller's Der Geisterseher for Pushkin Press.


• 2005 Ruy Blas, a verse translation of Victor Hugo's 1838 play of the same name for Oberon Books.


• 2008 The Bachelors, translation of Adalbert Stifter's novella, Der Hagestolz, for Pushkin Press.


• 2009 Don Juan de la Mancha, translation of Robert Menasse's latest novel for Alma Books.

• 2021 The Trials of Love, revised translations of the two French classics commissioned by Cheek by Jowl, ‘Andromache’ and ‘The Cid’, published by Troubador Press.