At Keele he met his wife Frangcon Price, who also excelled in drama as a student and in her later career.
[1][2] His works includes seven plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, most of which are period pieces based on real historical events.
In 2008, his play The School of Night, originally produced at The Other Place theatre, in November 1992,[3] made its US debut at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
[1] In January 2018, his play Sleepers in the Field had its world premiere at The Questors Theatre, in Ealing, London.
[4] Important papers of his are stored in the Borthwick Institute for Archives in the Library of the University of York.