Royal Court Theatre

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Abel's Sister opened at the Royal Court 's Theatre Upstairs.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
408
Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's play The Grace of Mary Traverse opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
408
Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Our Country's Good opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
409
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Three Birds Alighting on a Field opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
410
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's The Break of Day opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London after touring the UK; it was published by Faber and Faber in London and Boston in the same year.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Break of Day. Faber and Faber.
title-page, back cover
Performance of text Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's unsuccessful dramatic version of Eleanor, a collaboration with US playwright Julian Sturgis , opened at the Court Theatre in London with Elizabeth Robins in her last professional role.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
414
Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable.
178
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist 's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller 's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby 's Rutherford and...
Textual Production Marie Stopes
MS must have been still at the threshold of her career as a dramatist when she proposed to Angela Brazil that she should do a stage adaptation of one of Brazil's school stories. Brazil quashed...
Performance of text Githa Sowerby
GS 's realist drama Rutherford and Son was first produced at the Court Theatre in London, where it had four matinée performances.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press.
166, 130
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
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 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 Women's Theatre Trust.
“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.
At sixteen, she says, she was a real stage-struck teenager, sitting on the steps [of the Royal Court Theatre ] in...

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...

Women writers item

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...

Women writers item

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.