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.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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). Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen. 2 |
| Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | The Royal Court
produced AJ
's The Rising Generation, a young people's play which had previously been rejected by the British Girl Guides Association
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 233 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 220-1 |
| Performance of text | Louise Page | In a collaborative play at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
entitled Falkland Sound/Voces de Malvinas and based on actual letters (those of David Tinker
) and interviews, LP
addressed the topic of war, its slaughter... |
| 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 |
| Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's Abel's Sister opened at the Royal Court
's Theatre Upstairs. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 408 |
| Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | SD
's play The Devil's Gateway was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs. 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. 74 |
| Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
's biographical play, Shelley
; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Jellicoe, Ann. Shelley. Faber and Faber. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 221 |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's play Far Away opened at the Royal Court
's Theatre Upstairs, directed by Stephen Daldry
. Churchill, Caryl. Far Away. Nick Hern and Royal Court Theatre. title-page |
| Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's play The Grace of Mary Traverse opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 408 |
| Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | Byrthrite, SD
's historical feminist drama about women's reproductive rights and the persecution of witches, set during the English Civil War, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
. 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. 334 Cousin, Geraldine. Women in Dramatic Place and Time: Contemporary Female Characters on Stage. Routledge. 92 |
| Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | SB
's play Fin de partie (Endgame), a bleak piece about alienation set in a desolate world, was published in Paris. The next month it had its first performance (in French) at the Royal Court
, London. Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press. 65 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 60 Taylor, John Russell. The Penguin Dictionary of theTheatre. Penguin. 91 |
| Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's Our Country's Good opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 409 |
| Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | The Women's Playhouse Trust
first performed a play by SD
about sexual abuse, Beside Herself, at the Royal Court Theatre
, directed by Jules Wright
. Daniels, Sarah. Plays: Two. Methuen. 96 Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers. 100 Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan. 82 |
| Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | SB
's play Endgame was banned from performance at the Royal Court
in London by the Lord Chancellor since the Deity was called a bastard. It finally opened in November this year. Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press. xi |
| Performance of text | George Paston | GP
's Tilda's New Hat, a one-act comedy about love and fashion, was first performed by the Play Actors
at the Court Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 875 Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press. 167 |
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