Full length plays

Hugh Leonard wrote the following full-length original plays and adaptations. The links bring you to individual articles on each work.

• The Italian Road (1954)
• The Big Birthday (1956), filmed as ”Broth of a Boy” (1959)
• A Leap in the Dark (1957)
• Madigan’s Lock (1958)
• A Walk on the Water (1960)
• The Passion of Peter Ginty (1961), an adaptation of Peer Gynt
• Stephen D (1962), an adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero by James Joyce
• Dublin One (1963), an adaptation of the Dubliners short stories of James Joyce
• The Poker Session (1964)
• The Family Way (1964), an adaptation of “Celimare, Le Bien-Aime” by Eugene Labiche (revived in 1976 as Some of My Best Friends Are Husbands)
• The Saints Go Cycling In, an adaptation of The Dalkey Archive by Flann O’Brien, (1965)
• Mick and Mick (1966)
• The Au Pair Man (1968)
• The Barracks (1969), an adaptation of the novel by John McGahern
• The Patrick Pearse Motel (1971)
• Da (1973)
• Summer (1974)
• Time Was (1976)
• Liam Liar (1976), an adaptation of the play Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
• A Life (1979)
• Kill(1982)
• The Mask of Moriarty (1985)
• Moving (1992)
• Great Expectations (1995), an adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities (1996), an adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens
• Love in the Title (1999)
• Magicality