Royal Court Theatre

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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Its London run at the Royal Court Theatre began three weeks later.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
109
A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.
Performance of text Ann Jellicoe
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...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Owners, CC 's first stage play in several years, opened in London at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
108
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 Caryl Churchill
Objections to Sex and Violence, a play by CC , opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
109
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 Caryl Churchill
CC 's play Traps (written, this time, without the collaboration of a theatre group) was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
110
Churchill, Caryl. Traps. Pluto Press.
prelims
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 Caryl Churchill
In 2003 CC 's ten-minute play Iraqdoc was given at the Royal Court .
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
273
“Caryl Churchill”. doollee.com: Playwrights.
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's critically acclaimed feminist drama Top Girls premièred at the Royal Court Theatre .
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
110
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 Caryl Churchill
CC 's widely successful verse drama about the London financial world, Serious Money, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
112
Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Methuen.
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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...
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
Ripen Our Darkness, a play by SD about a woman exploited by her family and ignored by society, opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs (the smaller auditorium).
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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Performance of text Ann Jellicoe
AJ 's play The Sport of My Mad Mother, originally written for a newspaper competition, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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