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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...

Daily Telegraph referred to this play as the cleverest murder mystery of the British theatre, while the Observer identified it as a classic. In June 1999 the set used in the original production...

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...

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...

This was the first play by a living woman ever to be given at the National Theatre . Its first draft won the George Devine Award.Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times...

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...

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...

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...

The Clean Break theatre company did a production at the Royal National Theatre of WP 's play Mules, about Jamaican women enlisted as drug smugglers.

PG adapted and translated several Chekhov plays over the following decades. In 1984 her version of The Cherry Orchard opened at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, and in 2007 it was directed by Jonathan Miller

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...

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...

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.

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 .

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 .