Christopher Godfrey Bond (born 1945, Sussex, England, UK) is a British actor,
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
and
theatre director whose 1970 retelling of the
Victorian
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tale ''
Sweeney Todd'' formed the basis of
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; March 22, 1930November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, Sondheim is credited for having "reinvented the American musical" with sho ...
's
musical of the same name, with book by
Hugh Wheeler. He wrote this while he was Resident Dramatist at
Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent (1970–71). He was Artistic Director of the
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1976–78), Director of
Liverpool Playhouse (1981–83), and Artistic Director of
Half Moon Theatre (1984–89). He lives in West
Cornwall
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.
Plays
*''Mountain Fire''
*''Mutiny'' (1970)
*''Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (1970)
*''Simple Simon'' (1971)
*''Not So Simple Simon'' (1971)
*''Shem's Boat'' (1971)
*''Downright Hooligan'' (1972)
*''Judge Jeffreys'' (1973)
*''Tarzan's Last Stand'' (1973)
*''The Country Wife'' (1974)
*''Under New Management'' (1975)
*''The Cantril Tales'' (1975)
*''The Adventures of Finn McCool'' (1976)
*''George'' (1976)
*''Good Soldier Scouse'' (1976)
*''Scum: Death, Destruction, and Dirty Washing'' (1976)
*''The Beggars Opera'' (1977)
*''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1981)
*''Gone To Jesus'' (1982)
*''Dracula'' (1984)
*''Spend, Spend, Spend'' (1985)
*''All the Fun of the Fair'' (1986)
*''El Sid'' (1988)
*''Mysterie of Maria Marten'' (1991)
*''Roll With the Punches'' (1996)
*''The Blood of Dracula'' (1997)
*''Alice on the Underground'' (2004)
*''Hubble Bubble'' (2004)
*''Don Quixote Rides Again'' (2005)
*''It's A Fine Life!'' (2006)
*''Romford Rose'' (with Jo Collins, 2016)
''Sweeney Todd writer Christopher Bond on his latest show, Romford Rose'' – Musical Theatre Review, 28 May 2016
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References
1945 births
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
British male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century British dramatists and playwrights
21st-century British dramatists and playwrights
20th-century British male writers
21st-century British male writers
Sweeney Todd
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