John Hall (English playwright)

John Clifford Hall (26 June 1925 – 25 March 2001) was an English playwright who wrote over thirty plays for theatre, television and radio.

[7][8] Albert Finney starred in one of his most successful plays The Lizard on the Rock, at Birmingham Repertory Theatre[9]: dust jacket [10][11][12][13][14] of which Michael Billington wrote: 'Above all, I remember him [Finney] in The Lizard on the Rock by John Hall, which required him to be shot at point-blank range in the stomach: as he suddenly crumpled, uttering cat-like cries, the critic Kenneth Tynan in The Observer described it as "the best fall since Feuillère", who was then queen of the French stage'.

[9]: dust jacket  and the playwright Christopher Fry wrote: 'Mr Hall's mind is his own; what he has to say is his own...'[9]: dust jacket  The review in The Stage for the Birmingham production of the play read: 'an interesting journey through a variety of tense scenes, each peopled with characters that might in turn be the focal point of the play themselves... Mr. Hall... gives them an aura pregnant with possibilities.

[1] Wrang-Gaites, written for his sons to enjoy,[20]: 3  was originally performed by the York Theatre Royal Activists in 1973[20]: 5  and was later set to music at Chichester University.

[21] Of Wrang-Gaites, playwright Christopher Fry wrote: 'It is as though the traditional Mummer's Play of St George and the Dragon had spread and ramified and leapt into the twentieth century.