Royal Court Theatre

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Connections 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).
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: One. Methuen.
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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.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen.
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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.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen.
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Cousin, Geraldine. Women in Dramatic Place and Time: Contemporary Female Characters on Stage. Routledge.
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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.
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Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers.
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Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan.
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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.
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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...
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
The original production, directed by Jules Wright , moved with only one cast change from Manchester to London, to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs , in November 1983, and to the main auditorium on...
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
SD dedicated this play to all the friends, both mothers and teachers who have shared their experiences with me. She acknowledged the influence of Phyllis Chesler 's interpretation of the myth of Demeter and Persephone...
Performance of text Shelagh Delaney
A second, moderately successful production of SD 's play The Lion in Love opened at London's Royal Court Theatre , where it was presented by the English Stage Company .
Delaney, Shelagh. The Lion in Love. Methuen.
prelims
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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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...
Friends, Associates Maureen Duffy
At this time she was friendly with a group of writers connected with the Royal Court Theatre , and also with authors J. G. Farrell and Heathcote Williams , and with publisher Graham Nicol ...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
In the five years after university she completed three stage plays and counted herself one of a group of playwrights connected with the Royal Court Theatre , which included John Arden , Edward Bond ,...
Fictionalization T. S. Eliot
During TSE 's last years he reaped a rich harvest of public honours, both in Britain and internationally. Since then his standing as leading poet of the modernist movement and dominant figure of twentieth-century English...
Textual Production Pam Gems
This play was the first by a woman to be staged by the RSC in Stratford. PG originally wrote it for the Royal Court Theatre at the request of playwright Ann Jellicoe , who was...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Jellicoe
AJ was married for the second time, to Roger Mayne , a photographer she met at the Royal Court Theatre .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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