Royal Court Theatre

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Textual Production Doris Lessing
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.
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 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 Louise Page
In a collaborative play at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs entitled Falkland Sound/Voces de Malvinas and based on actual letters (those of David Tinker ) and interviews, LP addressed the topic of war, its slaughter...
Education Louise Page
LP took a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University in 1976 (the year her first play received a reading at the Royal Court Theatre ). She followed it with a post-graduate degree...
Employer Louise Page
In 1979 LP had a post at the University of Sheffield as Yorkshire Television 's Fellow in Drama and Television. She was also employed to teach at the University of Birmingham . In 1982-3 she...
Performance of text George Paston
GP 's Tilda's New Hat, a one-act comedy about love and fashion, was first performed by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
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Performance of text Winsome Pinnock
Two and a half years after its rehearsed reading at the same venue, WP 's play A Hero's Welcome was produced at the Royal Court Theatre (Theatre Upstairs) under the auspices of the Women's Theatre Trust.
“Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press.
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Performance of text Winsome Pinnock
WP 's A Rock in Water, a play based on the life of Claudia Jones , was given at the Royal Court Young People's Theatre .
“Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights.
Education Winsome Pinnock
At about fourteen WP discovered live theatre in the form of a school trip.
“The Play Ground, ’Reaching out for life in a new country’: Winsome Pinnock on her play Leave Taking”. Nick Hern Books.
At sixteen, she says, she was a real stage-struck teenager, sitting on the steps [of the Royal Court Theatre ] in...
Employer Winsome Pinnock
In her late teens WP planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as...
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
This was the first play that WP wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the...
Performance of text Winsome Pinnock
WP 's play A Hero's Welcome had a rehearsed reading at the Royal Court Theatre (Theatre Upstairs).
Pinnock, Winsome. “Leave Taking”. First Run: New Plays by New Writers, edited by Kate Harwood, Nick Hern Books, pp. 139-89.
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Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press.
129
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 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.
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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.
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, No. 3, pp. 347-61.
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