“Winsome Pinnock”. Kingston University London.
National Theatre
Connections
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Textual Production | Winsome Pinnock | |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | BL
's play Frozen was published in the same month that it reached the stage of the Cottesloe Theatre in London (the smallest auditorium at the Royal National Theatre
). Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. “Bryony Lavery”. doollee.com: Playwrights. |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | It was four years before Trevor Nunn
, director of the National Theatre
, managed to arrange a move from Birmingham to the Cottesloe Theatre in London for this play, with its original cast. |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | After her American success of Frozen, BL
planned an adaptation of Dracula to premiere at Princeton University
in June 2004, and Discontented Winter: House Remix as a youth play for the National Theatre
in... |
Textual Production | Liz Lochhead | LL
has written several plays for children and adolescents. These include Disgusting Objects, a play about schoolgirls' first encounter with sexism written for the Scottish Youth Theatre
in 1982, and Shanghaied, a play... |
Textual Production | Ali Smith | AS
originally composed Just for the youth theatre season run by the National Theatre
(then called the Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24. ix-x |
Textual Production | Shena Mackay | SM
has written a play, Nurse Macater, for the National Theatre
. Mackay, Shena. Redhill Rococo. Abacus. prelims |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | The Wandering Jew, a play adapted by MW
from Eugène Sue
's long, unwieldy novel Le Juif errant (serialized in French from June 1844 to July 1845), was performed at the National Theatre
in London. Wandor, Michelene, and Mike Alfreds. The Wandering Jew. Methuen. 5, 6 |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | In late 2016, after Britain had narrowly voted in favour of Brexit, CAD
blended words of her own with those spoken by people nationwide, aged 9 to 97, across the United Kingdom, in interviews with... |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | In late November, with perceived parallels to current events keeping The Handmaid's Tale riding high, Atwood announced that in September 2019 she would release a sequel: The Testaments, set in Gilead fifteen years after... |
Textual Production | Pam Gems | PG
's play Stanley, in which Antony Sher
starred as the painter Stanley Spencer
, opened at the National Theatre Cottesloe
. It was published the same year. Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73. 169, 172 Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers. 25 “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 65483 (23 January 1996): 39 |
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... |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
contributed a play, Arden City, to the National Theatre
's annual festival of theatre for young people, 2008, and the subsequent printed anthology, that year's New Connections. |
Textual Features | Bernardine Evaristo | Among others she includes a Newcastle orphan in 1905 and a feminist squatter in 1980. The dedication reads: For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren / & the women &... |
Reception | Sarah Daniels | Masterpieces brought SD
two awards for most promising playwright: one from Drama and another from Plays and Players: the London Theatre Critics Award, which she shared. Audiences at the National Theatre
later voted this... |
Timeline
19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...
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19 May 1908
A campaign to establish a National Theatre
began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre
, London.
9 March 1949: A National Theatre Act was passed by the...
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9 March 1949
A National Theatre
Act was passed by the British Parliament
, which allowed the Treasury
to contribute towards national theatre costs.
13 July 1951: Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone...
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13 July 1951
11 April 1967: Tom Stoppard's first great stage success,...
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11 April 1967
Tom Stoppard
's first great stage success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, had its professional debut at the National Theatre
in London. A version had been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of...
25 October 1976: The National Theatre's new home on the South...
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25 October 1976
The National Theatre
's new home on the South Bank officially opened with a royal gala performance of a comedy by Carlo Goldoni
in its larger auditorium, the Olivier.
13 April 1993: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, a play whose action...
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13 April 1993
Tom Stoppard
's Arcadia, a play whose action is divided between the early nineteenth century and the present day, opened (after previews) at the National Theatre
in London.
September-November 2005: An exhibition at the National Theatre in...
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September-November 2005
An exhibition at the National Theatre
in London, Flogging the Jewels, celebrated thirty years of the company now called Sphinx
(formerly the Women's Theatre Group).
By 13 May 2007: The director of London's National Theatre,...
Women writers item
By 13 May 2007
The director of London's National Theatre
, Nicholas Hytner
, alleged that critics (whom he called dead white men) showed misogyny in reviewing plays by women.
Texts
NT2000: 100 Plays of the Century. National Theatre, 1999.
Program: Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby. National Theatre, 1994.