Royal Court Theatre

AJ knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production...

AJ later described this play as a flop d'estime. Critics found it baffling, and faulted her for not providing a stronger plot and more engaging characters. Commercially, the play was a resounding...

Michael Coveney and David Edgar counted this, with The Knack, part of a legendary canon in Sloane Square (home of the Royal Court Theatre ).

The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court , despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ credits John Osborne for persuading them to produce...

After this production, AJ decided to take some time away from writing to concentrate on her two young children. In an interview in 1972, she claimed that she found it a relief to stop writing...

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 ...

AJ was married for the second time, to Roger Mayne , a photographer she met at the Royal Court Theatre .

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...

AJ 's play The Sport of My Mad Mother, originally written for a newspaper competition, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

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 .

AJ 's biographical play, Shelley ; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

AJ was one of the new, post-war generation of playwrights associated with the Royal Court , who helped to revitalise theatre in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her early plays, whose plotlessness...

Between her first and her second marriage, AJ had a failed relationship with Keith Johnstone , a fellow Royal Court writer.

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...

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