Richard Huggett (playwright)

Richard Huggett (born 25 April 1929, London, England, died 15 April 2000 in Surrey, England) was an English actor, author, and playwright.^[1]

He best-known plays are The First Night of Pygmalion (1968) and A Talent To Abuse (1981),^[2] both originally written and performed by Huggett himself as one-man shows. The First Night of Pygmalion was later adapted for television in 1969 and again in 1975.^[3][4] A Talent to Abuse, in which Huggett played writer Evelyn Waugh, met with criticism from Waugh's son, Auberon.^[5][6] Huggett was also noted for his 1989 biography of British theatre producer Binkie Beaumont.

Works

Plays

• The Lupin-Blue Dress (1965)
• Good Egg (1967)
• The First Night of "Pygmalion" (1968)
• A Talent To Abuse (1981)
• A Weekend with Willie (BBC radio broadcast, 1981)^[7][8]

Nonfiction

• The Truth About Pygmalion (1969)
• The Wit of the Catholics (1971)
• The Wit and Humour of Sex (1975)
• Supernatural on Stage: Ghosts and Superstitions of the Theatre (1975)
• The Curse of Macbeth (1981)
• The Wit of Publishing (1987)
• Binkie Beaumont – Éminence Grise of the West End Theatre, 1933–1973. (1989) ISBN 0340412690.