Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Royal Court Theatre
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 | CC
's critically acclaimed feminist drama Top Girls premièred at the Royal Court Theatre
. Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen. prelims 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. 112 Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Methuen. prelims |
| 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 | 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. 56 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. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 113 |
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