Royal Court Theatre

ER 's suffrage play, Votes for Women (one of the earliest in the genre), was first performed at the Court Theatre .

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.

GS 's realist drama Rutherford and Son was first produced at the Court Theatre in London, where it had four matinée performances.

Looking back at her time at the Royal Court from 1984, however, AJ commented: I was awfully blind—I'm one of the ones that's been re-educated. . . . I didn't appreciate what tremendous disadvantages I...

AJ was one of the new, post-war generation of playwrights associated with the Royal Court , who helped to revitalise theatre in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her early plays, whose plotlessness...

SD began writing after reading an injunction from Doris Lessing about putting one's life in order. Some fringe plays that she attended were absolutely dreadful, which made her confident that she could do better...

The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court , despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ credits John Osborne for persuading them to produce...

AJ later described this play as a flop d'estime. Critics found it baffling, and faulted her for not providing a stronger plot and more engaging characters. Commercially, the play was a resounding...

Michael Coveney and David Edgar counted this, with The Knack, part of a legendary canon in Sloane Square (home of the Royal Court Theatre ).

MS must have been still at the threshold of her career as a dramatist when she proposed to Angela Brazil that she should do a stage adaptation of one of Brazil's school stories. Brazil quashed...

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.

CC 's A Number (a play about cloning, whose characters are exclusively male) opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London, directed by Stephen Daldry .

TW 's Three Birds Alighting on a Field opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

TW 's The Break of Day opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London after touring the UK; it was published by Faber and Faber in London and Boston in the same year.

AJ knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production...