Royal Court Theatre

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Occupation Sarah Kane
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
Occupation Ann Jellicoe
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...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's play Far Away opened at the Royal Court 's Theatre Upstairs, directed by Stephen Daldry .
Churchill, Caryl. Far Away. Nick Hern and Royal Court Theatre.
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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.
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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 Ann Jellicoe
AJ 's biographical play, Shelley ; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Jellicoe, Ann. Shelley. Faber and Faber.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Performance of text Samuel Beckett
SB 's play Fin de partie (Endgame), a bleak piece about alienation set in a desolate world, was published in Paris. The next month it had its first performance (in French) at the Royal Court , London.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Taylor, John Russell. The Penguin Dictionary of theTheatre. Penguin.
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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.
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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 Samuel Beckett
SB 's play Endgame was banned from performance at the Royal Court in London by the Lord Chancellor since the Deity was called a bastard. It finally opened in November this year.
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press.
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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.
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Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's immensely controversial ten-minute work Seven Jewish Children—a Play for Gaza premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London, causing a furore which spread globally over the next few months.
Churchill, Caryl. “Read Caryl Churchillapos;s Seven Jewish Children”. guardia.co.uk.
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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Performance of text Samuel Beckett
SB 's Krapp's Last Tape, a play written originally in English for actor Patrick McGee or Magee , was first performed by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court in London.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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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.
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Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press.
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