Royal Court Theatre

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Its original production was at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958. In April 2015 a revival opened at the Orange Tree Theatre at Richmond in Surrey.

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

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.