Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, pp. 9-23.
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Reception | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
later described this play as a flop d'estime. Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, pp. 9-23. 12 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 220, 222 |
Reception | Ann Jellicoe | Michael Coveney
and David Edgar
counted this, with The Knack, part of a legendary canon in Sloane Square (home of the Royal Court Theatre
). Coveney, Michael, and David Edgar. “Ann Jellicoe obituary”. theguardian.com. |
Publishing | Ann Jellicoe | The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court
, despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ
credits John Osborne
for persuading them to produce... |
Publishing | Sarah Daniels | SD
began writing after reading an injunction from Doris Lessing
about putting one's life in order. Some fringe plays that she attended were absolutely dreadful, which made her confident that she could do better... |
Author summary | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
was one of the new, post-war generation of playwrights associated with the Royal Court
, who helped to revitalise theatre in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her early plays, whose plotlessness... |
politics | Ann Jellicoe | Looking back at her time at the Royal Court
from 1984, however, AJ
commented: I was awfully blind—I'm one of the ones that's been re-educated. . . . I didn't appreciate what tremendous disadvantages I... |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Its London run at the Royal Court Theatre
began three weeks later. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 109 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Owners, CC
's first stage play in several years, opened in London at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 108 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's next play, Ashes to Ashes, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
. The production was by the Royal Court Theatre
(in exile while its buildings were renovated), and directed by the author. “Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | After this production, AJ
decided to take some time away from writing to concentrate on her two young children. In an interview in 1972, she claimed that she found it a relief to stop writing... |
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 |
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