Good

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'Germany in the Thirties. Nothing, I should have thought, was harder to dramatise. Witness all those turgid films and telly-plays full of stuffed SS uniforms. But C. P. Taylor's Good is an original and intelligent play, light in texture but serious in content, that tries to work out how decent, liberal, humane men came to be swept up by the Nazi juggernaut.' - Michael Billington, Guardian 'Taylor's play is about moral compromise in a political fog, and like all good plays is as much abou tnow as then.' - Snoo Wilson, Time Out 'A fine mature new play from one of our best (though underrated) dramatists.' John Elsom, Listener The first production of Good, with Alan Howard in the lead, was by the Royal Shakespeare Company at their London Warehouse in September 1981. The production was revived in January 1982.

C. P. Taylor was born in Glasgow in 1929 but lived in Northumberland for the last twenty years of his life. He wrote over fifty plays for the theatre and televisions, many of them first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. These include Bread and Butter (1966), The Black and White Minstrels (1972), Schippel (1974), Walter and Some Enchanted Evening (both 1977). Bandits was staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Warehouse, London, in 1977. He was closely associated with a community theatre group in Newcvastle, The Live Theatre Company, for which he wrote, among others, And A Nightingale Sang... (1977) which was subsequently seen at the Queen's Theatre, Lodnon (1979) and on tour. He wrote a great deal for children and young people in the North East, with plays such as Operation Elvis (1978), The Magic Island (1979) and Happy Lies (1981). Good was first performed at the RSC Warehouse, London in September 1981. Cecil Taylor died in December 1981.