Yousaf, Nahem et al., editors. “Introduction”. Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker, University of South Carolina Press, p. vii - xxiii.
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Reception | Sarah Daniels | This was the first play by a living woman ever to be given at the National Theatre
. Yousaf, Nahem et al., editors. “Introduction”. Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker, University of South Carolina Press, p. vii - xxiii. xv Remnant, Mary, editor. “Introduction”. Plays by Women: Volume 6, Methuen, pp. 7-12. 9 |
Reception | Shelagh Delaney | SD
won several awards for the play. In England, she received the Charles Henry Foyle New Play Award in 1958 and an Arts Council Bursary Award in 1959. She also received the New York Drama... |
Reception | Michelene Wandor | While she admired the daring of the inital production by Mrs Worthington's Daughters
, MW
found the National Theatre
production, staged simply with the actors in modern dress, to be one of the most rewarding... |
Reception | Timberlake Wertenbaker | This play won awards in London (Olivier Award and Evening Standard award, 1988) and New York (Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play, 1991). National Theatre
audiences voted it one of the Hundred Plays... |
Reception | Agatha Christie | Daily Telegraph referred to this play as the cleverest murder mystery of the British theatre, while the Observer identified it as a classic. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 13 |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | Ethel Smyth
sent her responses to this book by telegram on publication day: Book astounding so far. Agitatingly increases value of life. Two days later she sent: Final paragraph almost smashes machine of life with... |
Publishing | Michelene Wandor | BBC Radio
rejected the play when MW
submitted it to them in 1977, but decided to broadcast it in 1981 after a producer saw the stage production. The National Theatre
likewise initially rejected it, but... |
politics | Harold Pinter | Pinter voted Tory in May 1979 (when Margaret Thatcher
became Prime Minister) in reaction against trade union intransigence (which had threatened a play he was directing at the National Theatre
), and SDP in June... |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's A Dream Play, translated from a play by Strindberg
dating from 1901, was published, close to its opening night at the National Theatre
in London. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Performance of text | Jackie Kay | JK
's short play Take Away, a story (reminiscent of that of the Pied Piper) about a town desperately seeking to get rid of its onions, was performed at the National Theatre
on 29... |
Performance of text | Gillian Slovo | The Temporary Theatre at the National Theatre
saw the debut of Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, a verbatim play by GS
, directed by her former co-worker in this genre, Nicholas Kent
. Latif, Nadia, and Omar El-Kairy. “Censorship, blindspots and bomb squads”. The Guardian, pp. G16 - 17. Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com. |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's short play Here We Go, a striking memento mori for an age without faith, opened at the National Theatre
; it was published nexg day. Billington, Michael. “Here We Go review’Caryl Churchill’s chilling reminder of our mortality”. theguardian.com. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre
: a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
, directed by Peter Hall
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 15-17 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Its London run at the Royal Court Theatre
began three weeks later. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 109 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play Betrayal opened at the National Theatre
(on the smaller Lyttelton stage), directed by Peter Hall
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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