Royal Court Theatre

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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...
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.
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Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Taylor, John Russell. The Penguin Dictionary of theTheatre. Penguin.
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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 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 Samuel Beckett
SB 's play Happy Days opened for the first time in Britain at London's Royal Court . Its female protagonist, Winnie (who spends the evening largely buried in sand), was played by Brenda Bruce .
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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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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Performance of text Aphra Behn
It was published after 2 July with a dedication to the Earl of Rochester (not her friend the poet, who had died six years before); AB stopped the press until she was ready with her...
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...
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.
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Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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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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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.
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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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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...
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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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.