Roy Kift
Roy Kift (born 30 January 1943 in Bideford, Devon) is an English writer. Works (selection)

Theatre plays 
 1962: And Betty Martin…. (1st Prize University of Wales Eisteddfod)
 1968: The Continuing Tale of the Supermale. Sheffield Playhouse
 1970: Mary Mary. Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, later European tour incl. Amsterdam and Zurich. La Mama Theater, New York
 1971:	Genesis. Freehold Theatre, London
 1974:	Downers. Bradford University
 1976: The Complete Whole Earth Catalogue. Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Theatre, London
 1976: Smile for Jesus and the Cameraman. ICA London
 1976: Cakewalk. Hampstead Theatre, London
 1977: Happy and Glorious. (co-author Patrick Barlow), Almost Free Theatre, London
 1978: Land of Hope and Glory. (co-author Patrick Barlow) Theatre Royal Stratford East
 1980: Stärker als Superman. World Premiere: GRIPS Theatre, Berlin
 1981: Stronger than Superman. Unicorn Theatre, London (translated into 21 languages)
 1984: Joy, Opera libretto. Composer: Susanne Erding. World premiere. Kiel Opera House, Germany
 1992: Dreams of Beating Time. Holocaust play on Wilhelm Furtwängler and his former colleagues in the Theresienstadt concentration camp
 1999: Camp Comedy. (Holocaust play about Kurt Gerron and the cabaret in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Translations: German, Polish, French. World amateur premiere, CUNY GENESEO 2003, directed by Randy Kaplan. World professional premiere, Legnica, Poland, September 2012) The production was invited to the prestigious Warsaw Theatre Meeting in April 2013 and was later awarded the Grand Prix at the XXIV "Bez Granic" International Theatre Festival in Cieszyn (Poland/Czech Republic). 2005: Cathedral of Heresies. S. Fischer Verlag (On problems in the Roman Catholic Church)
 2010: Nothing. Stage adaptation of Janne Teller’s novel for young people. (Strident Press, GB)
 2011: The True Story of Adam and Eve as personally dictated by God Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and Earth to his prophet Moses between 2.41 pm on the 28th May and 9.27 am on 3 June 1423 BC and later published in a condensed version in the Book of Genesis for the salvation of humanity. (A three-person comedy debunking the GENESIS myth as a man-made fiction to justify an authoritarian, male-dominated world. German and English versions.) 2011: The Day God went on Facebook, a satirical comedy in 2 Acts. (also available in German and Polish)
 2013: One, Two, Free, a play for two persons about the performance of Verdi's Requiem in the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1944. 2015: Eden's Garden, a play about Britain's refusal to help the Jews in Poland during the Second World War
 2019: The Clearing, a dramatic parable about consumer terror, climate change and human cruelty. 3 actors. Children’s books 
 Franz, Anna und die Zechengeister. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997,

Travel guides
 Tour the Ruhr. 4th edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, 
 The Wupper Valley. Wuppertal, Solingen, Remscheid and the Bergisch Land. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, 
 Düsseldorf, Aachen and the Lower Rhine. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, 
 The Complete Ruhrgebiet Klartext Verlag, Essen,2018. Articles and lectures on theatre 
 "Getting to Grips with children’s theatre". In: Theatre Quarterly, Vol X, no 39. 1981
 Hoping for the Unexpected: The Theatre of Peter Zadek. In: New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 1, 1985
 Illusion and Reality in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. In: New Theatre Quarterly, Vol 12, 1996
 Reality and Illusion in the Theresienstadt Cabaret. In: Claude Schumacher (ed. ): Staging the Holocaust. The Shoah in drama and performance .Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1998, , pp. 147–168
 Singing in the Face of Death. A Study of Jewish Cabaret and Opera during the Holocaust. In: Rebecca Rovit/Alvin Goldberg (eds. ): Theatrical Performance in the Holocaust. Texts, Documents, Memoirs. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore et al. 1999, , pp. 125–132

References 

1943 births
Living people
British writers