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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.
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Its first draft won the George Devine Award.
Remnant, Mary, editor. “Introduction”. Plays by Women: Volume 6, Methuen, pp. 7-12.
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Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times...
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.
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In June 1999 the set used in the original production...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.
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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