Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | In the 1980s and 1990s, Rutherford and Son enjoyed several revivals by feminist theatre groups and directors, including productions by Mrs Worthington's Daughters
in June 1980 (abridged by Michelene Wandor
); Southern Lights
at the... |
Performance of text | Flora Thompson | In 1978 the National Theatre
staged an adaptation of Lark Rise written by Keith Dewhurst
. After Dewhurst's sequel, Candleford Green, opened in 1979, successive performances of both plays in a single day became... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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