Royal Court Theatre

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Textual Production Doris Lessing
Its original production was at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958. In April 2015 a revival opened at the Orange Tree Theatre at Richmond in Surrey.
Textual Production Marie Stopes
MS must have been still at the threshold of her career as a dramatist when she proposed to Angela Brazil that she should do a stage adaptation of one of Brazil's school stories. Brazil quashed...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
CC 's A Number (a play about cloning, whose characters are exclusively male) opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London, directed by Stephen Daldry .
Gardner, Lyn. “A Number”. Guardian Unlimited.
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Three Birds Alighting on a Field opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's The Break of Day opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London after touring the UK; it was published by Faber and Faber in London and Boston in the same year.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Break of Day. Faber and Faber.
title-page, back cover
Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
AJ knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production...
Textual Production Samuel Beckett
London's Royal Court had been vying with New York for the world premiere. Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby (1981) were all associated with the actress Billie Whitelaw .
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Textual Production Caryl Churchill
The play was commissioned by Michael Codron , an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter and Joe Orton .
Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan.
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The production marks the beginning of CC 's long association with the Royal Court
Textual Production Malorie Blackman
She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
This was the first play that WP wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
In this production CC continued her longtime collaboration with director Max Stafford-Clark , who had worked on several of her Joint Stock and Royal Court plays.
Churchill, Caryl. Blue Heart. Theatre Communications Group.
prelims
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
In the five years after university she completed three stage plays and counted herself one of a group of playwrights connected with the Royal Court Theatre , which included John Arden , Edward Bond ,...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Other projects from the 1990s include Lives of the Great Poisoners (1991) and Hotel (1997), both co-written with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink for Second Stride theatre company; a translation of Seneca 's...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
In April 2003 CC participated in a series of events at the Royal Court entitled War Correspondence. She composed her documentary piece Iraqdoc, out of actual remarks from a website chatroom frequented by...
Textual Production Pam Gems
This play was the first by a woman to be staged by the RSC in Stratford. PG originally wrote it for the Royal Court Theatre at the request of playwright Ann Jellicoe , who was...

Timeline

1871: The New Chelsea Theatre (opened the previous...

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1871

The New Chelsea Theatre (opened the previous year) became known as the Royal Court Theatre .

24 September 1888: The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the...

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24 September 1888

The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the Court Theatre) moved to a new site.

24 September 1888: The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the...

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24 September 1888

The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the Court Theatre) moved to a new site.

8 May 1956: John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger opened...

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8 May 1956

John Osborne 's playLook Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London; within a few weeks, on 28 May, Colin Wilson published The Outsider, a romanticizing study of the...

10 April 1957: Playwright John Osborne's The Entertainer...

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10 April 1957

Playwright John Osborne 's The Entertainer was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, with Laurence Olivier playing the lead.

19 August 1977: The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley...

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19 August 1977

The comedyOnce a Catholic by Mary O'Malley opened at the Royal Court Theatre ; it transferred to the West End later this year and won a string of awards.

1980: Andrea Dunbar published The Arbor: A Play,...

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1980

Andrea Dunbar published The Arbor: A Play, which had a moderately successful run at the Royal Court Theatre .

1982: The Royal Court Theatre commissioned Rita,...

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1982

The Royal Court Theatre commissioned Rita, Sue and Bob Too from Andrea Dunbar .

1984: The Royal Court Theatre performed Elisabeth...

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1984

The Royal Court Theatre performed Elisabeth Bond 's playMinor Complications influenced by visits to India and her family's connection with the British Raj. The same year her Sideways Down was produced at Riverside Studios

1986: Jacqueline Rudet's dramatic work Money to...

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1986

Jacqueline Rudet 's dramatic work Money to Live and an associated afterword were included in Plays By Women, edited by Mary Remnant .

1988: Andrea Dunbar's Shirley, which was produced...

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1988

Andrea Dunbar 's Shirley, which was produced by the Royal Court Theatre in 1986, was first published in a volume with the republished plays Rita, Sue and Bob Too and The Arbor.

February 2000: The Royal Court Theatre re-opened after having...

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February 2000

The Royal Court Theatre re-opened after having shut down for rebuilding in 1997.

11 July 2009: Enron, only the second play by Lucy Prebble...

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11 July 2009

Enron, only the second play by Lucy Prebble to reach the stage, opened at ChichesterFestival Theatre , dramatising the spectacular crash of the US energy giant Enron .

Texts

Hastings, Michael. Tom and Viv. Royal Court Theatre, 1984.