Royal Court Theatre

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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 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 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.
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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.
2
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.
220-1
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.
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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 Caryl Churchill
Icecream, CC 's play about tourists and tourism, set in Britain and the US, previewed at the Royal Court Theatre , directed by Max Stafford-Clark .
Churchill, Caryl. Icecream. Nick Hern.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
113
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.
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Performance of text Sarah Daniels
SD 's play The Devil's Gateway was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
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
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 .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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