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Playwrights

The Society licenses amateur and professional stage productions of the plays of the following dramatists and translators in addition to those indicated in the main list with an asterisk.

Winifred BANNISTER
Maurice BARING
David BARRETT
Freda COLLINS
Horton GIDDY
Ronald GOW
James GREGSON
Mollie & Michael HARDWICK
Robert McLELLAN
Edward MURCH
Betty RADICE
Patricia ROSS
Alan H. SOMMERSTEIN
Peter USTINOV (Certain foreign rights only)
John WOOD