Editing Dennis Potter (section)

==Other works==

===Novels===
''Hide and Seek'' (1973) is a [[meta-fiction]]al novel exploring the relationship between reader and author and contains a protagonist, Daniel Miller, who is convinced he is the plaything of an [[omniscient narrator|omniscient author]]. This concept forms the core of Potter's next two novels, and portions of ''Hide and Seek'' would reappear in several of his television plays, especially ''[[Follow the Yellow Brick Road]]'' (1972) and ''The Singing Detective''.

''Ticket to Ride'' (1986) was written between drafts of ''The Singing Detective'' and concerns a [[herbarium|herbithologist]] who is unable to make love to his wife unless he imagines her as a prostitute. This was followed in 1987 by ''Blackeyes'': a study of a model whose abusive uncle, a writer, has stolen details of his niece's experiences in the glamour industry as the basis for his latest [[potboiler]].

To tie in with the release of the [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] production of ''Pennies from Heaven'' in 1981, Potter wrote a novelisation of the screenplay. Potter turned down the option of writing a novelisation for the film version of ''Brimstone and Treacle'', allowing his daughter [[Sarah Potter]] to write it instead.

===Stage plays===
Although Potter only produced one play exclusively for theatrical performance (''Sufficient Carbohydrate'', 1983 – later filmed for television as ''Visitors'' in 1987), he adapted several of his television scripts for the stage. ''Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton'', which featured material from its sister-play ''Stand Up, Nigel Barton'', was premiered in 1966, while ''Only Make Believe'' (1973), which incorporated scenes from ''[[Play for Today#Angels Are So Few|Angels Are So Few]]'' (1970), made the transition to the stage in 1974. ''Son of Man'' appeared in 1969 with [[Frank Finlay]] in the title role (Finlay would also play Casanova in Potter's 1971 serial) and was restaged by [[Northern Broadsides|Northern Stage]] in 2006.<ref>Mark Fisher [https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117931685 "Son of Man"], ''Variety'', 24 September 2006</ref> ''Brimstone and Treacle'' was adapted for the stage in 1977 after the BBC refused to screen the original television version. The play text for ''Blue Remembered Hills'' was first published in the collection ''Waiting for the Boat'' (with ''[[Joe's Ark]]'' and ''Blade on the Feather'') in 1984 and has since enjoyed several successful stage performances. Potter proposed to write an "intermedia" stage play for producers Geisler-Roberdeau based on [[William Hazlitt]]'s ''Liber Amoris, or The New Pygmalion'', but he died before it could be commenced.