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Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Objections to Sex and Violence, a play by CC
, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 109 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's suffrage play, Votes for Women (one of the earliest in the genre), was first performed at the Court Theatre
. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 165 Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 25 , No. 3, pp. 347-61. 350 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's play Traps (written, this time, without the collaboration of a theatre group) was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 110 Churchill, Caryl. Traps. Pluto Press. prelims |
Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | GS
's realist drama Rutherford and Son was first produced at the Court Theatre
in London, where it had four matinée performances. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 166, 130 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's critically acclaimed feminist drama Top Girls premièred at the Royal Court Theatre
. Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 110 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | In 2003 CC
's ten-minute play Iraqdoc was given at the Royal Court
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 273 “Caryl Churchill”. doollee.com: Playwrights. |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's widely successful verse drama about the London financial world, Serious Money, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 112 Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Methuen. prelims |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | MW
has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist
's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller
's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby
's Rutherford and... |
Performance of text | Louise Page | Want-Ad, about LP
's eighth play to be written, was the first to be heard in public, at a Royal Court Theatre
reading. It was staged by Birmingham Arts Lab
in 1977 and at... |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Icecream, CC
's play about tourists and tourism, set in Britain and the US, previewed at the Royal Court Theatre
, directed by Max Stafford-Clark
. Churchill, Caryl. Icecream. Nick Hern. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 113 |
Performance of text | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's unsuccessful dramatic version of Eleanor, a collaboration with US playwright Julian Sturgis
, opened at the Court Theatre
in London with Elizabeth Robins
in her last professional role. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 414 Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable. 178 |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | Ripen Our Darkness, a play by SD
about a woman exploited by her family and ignored by society, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs (the smaller auditorium). Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 194-11. 207 Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen. 2 |
Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
's play The Sport of My Mad Mother, originally written for a newspaper competition, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 220-1 |
Performance of text | Louise Page | LP
had another success with Salonika: her eighth mature play, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
in London (for whom she had written it on commission) and published in March 1983. Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen. 56 Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust. back cover “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's double bill of plays entitled Blue Heart of Blue/Heart began its tour with the Out of Joint
and Royal Court
theatre companies at Bury St Edmunds, moving soon afterwards to the Edinburgh Festival |
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