Pioneer Players

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Performance of text Christopher St John
The Theatre of the Soul, a translation by Marie Potapenko and CSJ of Nikolai Evreinov 's expressionist play V kulisakh dushi, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Little Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
119
Performance of text Christopher St John
M. V. Salvage and CSJ 's collaborative adaptation The Rising Sun by Herman Heijermans was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's adaptation/translation The Children's Carnival (from Carnaval des enfants by St Georges de Bouhelier ) was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Kingsway Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
928
Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's one-act play The First Actress made part of the inaugural performance (Kingsway Theatre , London) of the newly founded Pioneer Players .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
928
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
221
Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's and Charles Thursby 's one-act play The Coronation, in which a monarch is converted to socialism on his way to be crowned, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Savoy Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
928
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's one-act play Macrena, about the nineteenth-century Polish nun Irena Macrena , was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the King's Hall , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
115
Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's translation from the pioneering woman playwright Hrosvit, Hrotsvit, or Roswitha , a one-act play called Paphnutius, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Savoy Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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Family and Intimate relationships Christopher St John
Atwood, who had been exhibiting her paintings since 1893, trained at the Slade School and was a member of the New English Art Club . During World War I she was one of the few...
Occupation Christopher St John
CSJ , as well as writing and acting for the Pioneer Players , sat on their committees and served as honorary secretary, 1915-20. Her stage roles for the Players included one in Edith Craig's production...
Textual Production Christopher St John
The Pioneer Players ' production of this play was remarkable in that the society continued to perform controversial, thought-provoking plays during wartime when others (such as the Stage Society ) turned to plays less likely...
Textual Production George Paston
GP 's Clothes and the Woman: A Comedy in Three Acts was first produced by the Pioneers at the Imperial Theatre .
These Pioneers are not the same group as Edith Craig 's feminist Pioneer Players .
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 Edith Lyttelton
EL 's The Thumbscrew, a tragic one-act play condemning sweated labour, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Little Theatre in London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
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Cockin, Katharine, and Jo Campling. Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: the Pioneer Players 1911-1925. Palgrave.
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Performance of text Edith Lyttelton
Edith Craig 's Pioneer Players mounted a production of Two Pierrots, EL 's adaptation of Rostand 's play Les deux Pierrots (which has been described as a curtain-raiser), at London's Little Theatre .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
797
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Performance of text Constance Holme
CH 's dialect play The Home of Vision (one of her only two dramatic pieces to be performed in London over the course of her career) was acted by Edith Craig 's Pioneer Players .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
Jack and Jill and a Friend, CH 's comic drama about the difficulties of being a woman writer, was performed by the Pioneer Players at the Kingsway Theatre in London, directed by Edith Craig .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press.
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June 1911: Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare's...

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June 1911

Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare 's Triumphant Women, under the auspices of the Pioneer Players .

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