John Perry

EB loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John and Susan Buchan , and it was through them that she...

Molly's close friends included novelist Elizabeth Bowen and actress Peggy Ashcroft . Visiting the Perry family home at Woodrooff, she met John Perry , who later collaborated with her on plays, and Bobby Keane ...

EB 's single play, Castle Anna (written in collaboration with John Perry , who was also at this time writing plays with Molly Keane ), was performed in London.

She finished writing it in September 1942, with the war at its height, deep in the English countryside at Croyle House near Cullompton in Devon. A stage adaptation by KOB and John Perry opened...

With sublime disregard for relevance, her elaborate title-page further promises a translation from Spanish, collected by the author of the Russian parts of the book, of an account of relics at Oviedo. Despite this...

MK 's identity as a writer was publicly revealed by the opening of her first play, Spring Meeting, written in collaboration with John Perry .

MK 's Treasure Hunt, a comic play co-written with John Perry , opened in London, starring Sybil Thorndike .

MK 's final play for the London stage, a farce co-written with John Perry entitled Dazzling Prospect, was unsuccessfully produced (with Margaret Rutherford again in the lead).

MK 's next play (again in collaboration with Perry and directed by Gielgud ) was Ducks and Drakes, 1941, published the following year.

KOB 's The Ante-Room appeared on stage in August 1936 in a dramatic adaptation which John Perry made without any consultation with her. Either he or the producer, Guthrie McClintick , radically altered the conclusion...