Shaun Lawton
Sydney Shaun Lawton (1941 – 31 August 2025) in New Marske, North Riding of Yorkshire) was an English playwright, poet, actor and singer/songwriter. Lawton is probably best known for his Desperado Corner, which has been described as a "sprawling, four-act, mad, wonderful play.. About working class boys from Redcar standing in pools of piss swearing".
Also recorded as Sydney Shaun Lawton · Shawn Lawton
Shaun Lawton
- Born
- 1941 · New Marske.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- actor · playwright · poet
- Languages
- English
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Shaun Lawton. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q3481573 · wikipedia · Shaun Lawton
In this article
Biography
Biography
Lawton showed the play to Di Trevis, who directed its premier in the Glasgow Citizens Theatre in 1981. Lawton later played film roles in Possession (1981), John Rabe (2009), and Anonymous (2011).
The recorded working language is English. Work by Shaun Lawton is recorded in the collections of ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1941
Shaun Lawton born at New Marske.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Shaun Lawton, revision 1366157651 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Chancery Publications Limited. Plays International. 11. 2000.
- 2.Di Trevis. Being a Director: A Life in Theatre. Routledge. 147–. 20 February 2012. 978-1-136-72164-9.
- 3.Jane Milling. Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations. Bloomsbury Publishing. 99–. 2 December 2013. 978-1-4081-2960-9.
- 4.Greenaway, Heather. Actor who got his big break in Glasgow theatre on brink of making history. 8 May 2016.
- 5.John Pym. Time Out Film Guide. Penguin Books. 2002. 978-0-14-029414-9.
- 6.Terry Rowan. World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide Volume I A-K. Lulu.com. 255–. 978-1-105-46489-8.
- 7.McFarland. The Tudors on Film and Television. 20–. 26 February 2013. 978-1-4766-0031-4.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 20 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Shashibhusan DasguptaAuthor
- Shatavadhani GaneshAuthor
- Shatha HassounAuthor
- Shaukat BukhariAuthor
- ShavaripaAuthor
- Shawn WayansAuthor
- Shawqi Abdul AmirAuthor
- Shawqi DaifAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Shaun Lawton?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.