Musical Adaptations

Silas Marner

Silas Marner, Belgrade Theatre, Bob Hewis, Director Bob Eaton, Musical Director John Kirkpatrick

Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

Co-written with Bob Eaton from the novel by George Eliot.
Musical direction by folk music legend John Kirkpatrick.
Directed by Mark Babych.


The Good Companions

Co-written with Bob Eaton from the novel by J.B. Priestley.

A warm-hearted story of a group of touring theatricals in the 1920s. Commissioned by Peter Cheeseman for the New Vic, Newcastle-Under-Lyme in 1995.

The Good Companions was was later produced at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (1998, directed by Bob Eaton), Theatre by the Lake, Keswick (2002, directed by Ian Forrest), and the New Wolsey, Ipswich (2003, directed by Pete Rowe).