Royal Court Theatre

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's immensely controversial ten-minute work Seven Jewish Children—a Play for Gaza premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London, causing a furore which spread globally over the next few months.
Churchill, Caryl. “Read Caryl Churchillapos;s Seven Jewish Children”. guardia.co.uk.
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
Another play by SD opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs: The Madness of Esme and Shaz, performed by the English Stage Company .
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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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: Two. Methuen.
264, chronology
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.
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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
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
A play by CC entitled Love and Information opened at the Royal Court Theatre for a five-week run; it was published the same year.
de Angelis, April. “Caryl Churchill: changing the language of theatre”. Guardian.co.uk.
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Performance of text Samuel Beckett
SB 's Krapp's Last Tape, a play written originally in English for actor Patrick McGee or Magee , was first performed by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court in London.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Performance of text Winsome Pinnock
WP 's play A Hero's Welcome had a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court Theatre (Theatre Upstairs).
Pinnock, Winsome. “Leave Taking”. First Run: New Plays by New Writers, edited by Kate Harwood, Nick Hern Books, pp. 139-89.
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Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press.
129
Occupation Caryl Churchill
This began a long association with the Royal Court Theatre , during which several of her plays were produced there during the 1980s and 1990s.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
46: 68-9
Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Gale Research.
19: 89-90
Occupation Anne Devlin
The success of AD 's first play, Ourselves Alone, in 1985 led to several new opportunities for her. She became an associate director at the Royal Court Theatre in London and took up positions...
Occupation Caryl Churchill
CC was resident dramatist and tutor for the Young Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She was the first woman to hold this position.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
103
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
46: 68
Occupation Sarah Kane
As a student, SK wanted to be an actor, then a theatre director. Apart from the productions already mentioned at school and at Bristol University, she directed student productions of Chekhov's The Bear (at Soho Poly
Occupation Ann Jellicoe
AJ began her tenure as the Royal Court Theatre 's literary manager, a job that involved selecting plays for production: the two years during which she held this post helped launch the careers of several...
Occupation Lady Cynthia Asquith
During the war LCA received the last of three successive offers of significant acting roles, despite her total lack of dramatic training. Towards Christmas 1909 she had taken part in a charity production at the...
Occupation Ann Jellicoe
AJ had a long-standing professional relationship with the Royal Court Theatre . Around the time her play The Sport of My Mad Mother was performed at the Court, she became involved in the newly formed...
Material Conditions of Writing Ann Jellicoe
The site was chosen as a compromise when several Axminster venues proved unwelcoming for political reasons having to do with relations among the area's various schools and with resistance from the Axminster Dramatic Society ...

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