This from the British Library's website:
Hearing forgotten voices in the West End
Graham Cowley is a theatre producer who has been involved in numerous successful theatre productions, and has recently made use of the Library to revive a number of forgotten World War One plays.
Graham has made prolific use of the Library’s Humanities collection, and said, “the twelve plays we found in the British Library were a revelation, a forgotten hoard of marvellous plays”.
From these plays, Graham created ‘Forgotten Voices from the Great War’, and they have received critical acclaim from the press and public alike, attracting audience members such as the late Harold Pinter.
‘My Real War 1914 - ?’ is being produced by 2sCompany and appearing in the West End’s Trafalgar Studios this month. The play is based on a privately published book of letters by the young Lieutenant Havilland Le Mesurier, killed at the Somme, aged 22.
Graham is also planning to put on the first professional production since 1930 of Velona Pilcher’s ‘The Searcher’, having found in the Library the only existing printed version. The accompanying music, by Edmund Rubbra, was never published or recorded yet the original manuscript was found in the Library and will be performed at Wilton’s Music Hall in January 2010. “The music really adds to the eerie atmosphere of the play and the original manuscript in the British Library has alterations scribbled in pencil, which has helped us to recreate the music as Edmund Rubbra intended it.”