Country Matters (69 Theatre Company, Manchester, 1969)
The Good Companions (musical by André Previn and Johnny Mercer), libretto (Her Majesty's Theatre, 1974)
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and the Round House, London, 1977,
A Family (Manchester and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 1978)
The Dresser (The Royal Exchange Manchester and Queen's Theatre, 1980; Duke of York's Theatre, 2005)[3]
After the Lions (Manchester, 1982)
Tramway Road (Lyric Hammersmith,1984)
The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest (Almeida Theatre, 1985)
Interpreters (Queen's Theatre, 1985)
J J Farr (Theatre Royal, Bath and Phoenix Theatre, 1987)
Ivanov, translation of Chekhov's play (Strand Theatre,1989)
Another Time (Bath and Wyndham's Theatre,1989)
Reflected Glory (Darlington and Vaudeville Theatre, 1992)
Poison Pen, about the death of composer Peter Warlock (Manchester, 1993))
Taking Sides, about the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (Minerva Theatre, Chichester,1995 and 2008; Duchess Theatre, 2009)
The Handyman (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 1996)
Quartet (Albery Theatre, 1999)
Goodbye Kiss/Guests, double bill about the South African diaspora (Orange Tree Theatre, 2000)
Mahler's Conversion (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Aldwych Theatre, 2001)
See U Next Tuesday, adaptation of Francis Veber's Diner de Cons (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2002 and Albery Theatre, 2003)
An English Tragedy, based on the true story of the British fascist John Amery (Palace Theatre Watford, 2008)
Collaboration, based on the relationship between the composer Richard Strauss and the writer Stefan Zweig (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2008; Duchess Theatre, 2009)
影视剧本
Private Potter (1962)
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
Eyewitness (1970)
伊凡·杰尼索维奇的一天/One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971)