Published Plays:

April in Paris (London: Samuel French, 1993)

Blood, Sweat and Tears (London: Samuel French, 1995)

Bouncers (Oxford: Amber Lane Press, 1985)

Bouncers (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1987)

Bouncers 1990’s Remix (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1993)

Gym and Tonic (London: Samuel French, 2000)

Happy Families (London: Samuel French, 1992)

Happy Jack (London: Penguin, 1989)

It Started With a Kiss (London: Samuel French, 2001)

Lucky Sods (London: Samuel French, 1996)

On a Night Like This (London: Josef Weinburger, 2001)

On the Piste (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1991)

Passion Killers (London: Samuel French, 1996)

Salt of the Earth (London: Samuel French, 1990)

September in the Rain (London: Penguin, 1989)

Teechers (Oxford: Amber Lane Press, 1985)

Teechers (London: Samuel French, 1989)

The Office Party (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1994)

Unleashed (London: Samuel French, 2001)

Up’n’Under (London: Samuel French, 1991)

Up’n’Under (Oxford: Amber Lane Press, 1985)

Up’n’Under II (London: Samuel French, 1994)

WITH JANE THORNTON:

Dracula, adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1996)

Shakers (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1987)

Shakers Re-stirred (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1993)

Collections:

Bouncers, Shakers: (London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1989)

Five Plays: Bouncers, Teechers, Up’n’Under, September in the Rain, Happy Jack (London: Penguin, 1989)

Lucky Sods and Passion Killers (London: Methuen, 1995)

Godber Plays One: Bouncers, Happy Families, Shakers (London: Methuen 2001)

Godber Plays Two: Teechers, Happy Jack, September in the Rain, Salt of the Earth (London: Methuen 2001)

Other Published Work:

The Rainbow-Coloured Disco Dancer by C. P. Taylor, adapted by John Godber, published in Right On Cue (ed. Gervase Phinn) Worcester: Unwin Hyman, 1989

National Theatre Platform Papers:

Making Them Laugh, Strictly Unscripted: (6 May 1993) With Ray Cooney and Simon Donald
 
 
 
 

Work in Media Other than Theatre:

Screenplays:

Up’n’Under 21 January 1998, Touchdown Productions, Film of the 1984 play.

Television Scripts:

Blood, Sweat and Tears Broadcast by BBC Television, 10 September 1986

Bloomin’ Marvellous 8th September 1997 BBC Television, eight-part situation comedy

Brookside (Mersey Television) 1983. Eleven episodes

Chalkface 6 May 1991 BBC Television (Writer and series adviser)

Crown Court (Granada Television) three-part episode entitled Night Fever, 1981.

Grange Hill (BBC Television) Five Episodes:

My Kingdom for a Horse 13 March 1991 BBC Television

Shakers the Television Play. Date unknown

The Continental BBC Television 1987

The Rainbow-Coloured Disco Dancer (Thames Television) Adaptation of C.P. Taylor short story. 1983

The Ritz BBC Television six part series April 1986

Toys of Age (With Richard Lewis) 1979 for Southern Television

Other:

Happy Jack Adapted and broadcast as a radio play on BBC Radio 4. Broadcast date unknown

Three short comedy sketches for Radio Sheffield, broadcast in 1972, precise date unknown
 
 

References:

Bennett, John "John Godber" entry for British and Irish Dramatists Since World War Two (ed. John Bull) Volume 233 in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Bruccoli Clark Layman (Second Series pages 128 - 140, 2000)

Dromgoole, Patrick "John Godber" The Full Room: An A -Z of Contemporary Playwrighting, Methuen (pages 104 - 105, 2000)

Hutchings, William "What’s it Going to be Then, Eh? The Stage Odyssey of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange" Modern Drama (Volume 34, March, pages 35 - 40, 1991)

Hutera, Donald J. "Up’n’Under and Bouncers," Theatre Journal, (May, pages 216 - 218, 1985)

Llewellyn, David "Popular Theatre and Participation in the Work of John Godber," Popular Theatres? Papers from the Popular Theatres Conference (1) Published by John Moores University, Ed. Roz Merkin, pages 94 - 102, 1994)

Reade, Simon "Yorkshire Skier," Plays International (Volume 8, Part 8, pages 10 - 11 1993)

Reade, Simon "Scab Picking?" Plays International (Volume 9, Part 6, pages 12 - 13 & 46, 1994)