“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
13
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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... |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | The Chalk Garden remains EB
's best-known work. While it has had frequent revivals by amateur and professional companies, Bagnold was disappointed that the National Theatre
never expressed interest in reviving it, an omission she... |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
Literary responses | Caryl Churchill | Top Girls achieved tremendous popular and critical success. In 1999, National Theatre
audiences voted it one of the top One Hundred Plays of the Century—and the only play by a woman to make the top... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The 1986 deregulation of the stock market—the Big Bang—by fortunate coincidence Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Methuen. prelims |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's ecological drama, The Skriker, was produced at the National Theatre (now officially, since 1988, the Royal National Theatre
). This was only its second staging of a play by a living British... |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | The National Theatre
produced SD
's feminist play Neaptide on its Cottesloe stage. Printed the same year, the play is about lesbians living with prejudice and concealment. Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 194-11. 207 Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen. 234 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. |
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... |
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 |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | The plays, written for young actors, had all been workshopped at a residential weekend for members of various theatre companies somewhere in the Midlands (the workshop on Taking Breath being led by director Gemma Bodinetz |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | In summer 2005 SD
contributed another play to a National Theatre
Connections season for young people: Dust, which takes up the topic of bullying. Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan. 84 |
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... |