Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen.
56
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | Its original production was at the Royal Court Theatre
in London 1958. In April 2015 a revival opened at the |
Education | Louise Page | LP
took a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University
in 1976 (the year her first play received a reading at the Royal Court Theatre
). She followed it with a post-graduate degree... |
Employer | Louise Page | In 1979 LP
had a post at the University of Sheffield
as Yorkshire Television
's Fellow in Drama and Television. She was also employed to teach at the University of Birmingham
. In 1982-3 she... |
Performance of text | Louise Page | Want-Ad, about LP
's eighth play to be written, was the first to be heard in public, at a Royal Court Theatre
reading. It was staged by Birmingham Arts Lab
in 1977 and at... |
Performance of text | Louise Page | LP
had another success with Salonika: her eighth mature play, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
in London (for whom she had written it on commission) and published in March 1983. Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen. 56 Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust. back cover “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) |
Performance of text | Louise Page | In a collaborative play at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
entitled Falkland Sound/Voces de Malvinas and based on actual letters (those of David Tinker
) and interviews, LP
addressed the topic of war, its slaughter... |
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 | 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. 139 Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press. 129 |
Performance of text | Winsome Pinnock | Two and a half years after its rehearsed reading at the same venue, WP
's play A Hero's Welcome was produced at the Royal Court Theatre
(Theatre Upstairs) under the auspices of the “Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights. Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press. 129 |
Performance of text | Winsome Pinnock | WP
's A Rock in Water, a play based on the life of Claudia Jones
, was given at the Royal Court Young People's Theatre
. “Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights. |
Education | Winsome Pinnock | At about fourteen WP
discovered live theatre in the form of a school trip. “The Play Ground, ’Reaching out for life in a new country’: Winsome Pinnock on her play Leave Taking”. Nick Hern Books. |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Textual Production | Winsome Pinnock | This was the first play that WP
wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the... |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's next play, Ashes to Ashes, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
. The production was by the Royal Court Theatre
(in exile while its buildings were renovated), and directed by the author. “Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's suffrage play, Votes for Women (one of the earliest in the genre), was first performed at the Court Theatre
. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 165 Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 25 , No. 3, pp. 347-61. 350 |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.