Royal Court Theatre

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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.
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Critics found it baffling, and faulted her for not providing a stronger plot and more engaging characters.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Commercially, the play was a resounding...
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.
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A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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, No. 3, pp. 347-61.
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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.
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Churchill, Caryl. Traps. Pluto Press.
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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.
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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.
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