Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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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 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. 33 |
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. 60 |
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 | 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 | 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. 31 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 59 |
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... |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's short play Escaped Alone, with its extraordinary cast of four ordinary women, all but one aged seventy or older, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London for a run of two... |
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 |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | The play was commissioned by Michael Codron
, an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter
and Joe Orton
. Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan. 61 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's next play staged at the Royal Court
, a science fiction work titled Moving Clocks Go Slow, received only a one-night performance at the small Upstairs theatre in June 1975. Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan. 67 |
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 |
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. 107 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. 103 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 46: 68 |
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. prelims |