Royal Court Theatre

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.

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.

Another play by SD opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs: The Madness of Esme and Shaz, performed by the English Stage Company .

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 ).

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.

London's Royal Court had been vying with New York for the world premiere. Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby (1981) were all associated with the actress Billie Whitelaw .

The play was commissioned by Michael Codron , an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter and Joe Orton . The production marks the beginning of CC 's long association with the Royal Court

She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...

In this production CC continued her longtime collaboration with director Max Stafford-Clark , who had worked on several of her Joint Stock and Royal Court plays.

In the five years after university she completed three stage plays and counted herself one of a group of playwrights connected with the Royal Court Theatre , which included John Arden , Edward Bond ,...