Barrie Keeffe
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Barrie Colin Keeffe is an English
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 dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his screenplay for the 1981 film The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film...

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Keeffe was educated at East Ham Grammar School. He joined the National Youth Theatre
National Youth Theatre
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 as an actor, but actually started work as a journalist
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. His first television play, Substitute, was produced in 1972 and his first theatre play, Only a Game, in 1973, and in 1975 he became a full-time playwright. He was writer-in-residence at the Shaw Theatre
Shaw Theatre
The Shaw Theatre is a theatre in Somers Town, in the London Borough of Camden. It is located near the Euston Road, beside the British Library and St Pancras Chambers , equidistant from King's Cross station and Euston station....

 in 1977, resident playwright with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

 in 1978, and associate writer with the Theatre Royal Stratford East
Theatre Royal Stratford East
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 from 1986 to 1991. He taught dramatic writing at City University, London
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 from 2002 to 2005. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters
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 by the University of Warwick
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Theatre plays

  • Only a Game (1973)
  • A Sight of Glory (1975)
  • Scribes (1975)
  • Here Comes the Sun (1976)
  • Gimme Shelter (1977)
  • A Mad World My Masters (1977, 1984)
  • Barbarians (1977)
  • Frozen Assets (1978)
  • Sus (1979)
  • Bastard Angel (1980)
  • She's So Modern (1980)
  • Black Lear (1980)
  • Chorus Girls (1981)
  • Better Times (1985)
  • King of England (1988)
  • My Girl (1989)
  • Not Fade Away (1990)
  • Wild Justice (1990)
  • I Only Want to Be With You (1995)
  • The Long Good Friday (1997)
  • Shadows on the Sun (2001)
  • Still Killing Time (2006)

  • Substitute (1972)
  • Not Quite Cricket (1977)
  • Gotcha (1977)
  • Nipper (1977)
  • Champions (1978)
  • Hanging Around (1978)
  • Waterloo Sunset (1979)
  • King (1984)

Radio plays

  • On the Eve of the Millennium (1999)
  • Feng Shui and Me (2001)
  • The Five of Us (2005)

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