Playwright, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He wrote his first play, Aa Went to Blaydon Races, in 1962. Later works include The Plumber's Progress (1975), Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles (1981), and his most successful play, Good (1981), which was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also adapted plays by Ibsen and others, as well as writing for television.
Cecil Philip Taylor (1929 - 1981) was a twentieth-century British playwright.
Cecil was born in Glasgow, came to Newcastle upon Tyne, the city where his mother had grown up, in 1955, and lived at 30 Lindale Road, Fenham, for many years.
His first play was Aa Went to Blaydon Races (1962), while Peter Pan Man transfers Barrie’s play to an Elswick estate. The Live Theatre in Newcastle premiered his Bandits (1977) which was also performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. His most successful work was probably Good (1981), in which a liberal German professor’s moral cowardice leads to his involvement with the Nazi war machine and Auschwitz.
Taylor lived in various parts of Northumberland with his second wife, eventually settling in Longhorsely.
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