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In late 2016, after Britain had narrowly voted in favour of Brexit, CAD blended words of her own with those spoken by people nationwide, aged 9 to 97, across the United Kingdom, in interviews with...

Among others she includes a Newcastle orphan in 1905 and a feminist squatter in 1980. The dedication reads: For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren / & the women &...

PG 's play Stanley, in which Antony Sher starred as the painter Stanley Spencer , opened at the National Theatre Cottesloe . It was published the same year.

This play brought PG 's work to the attention of critics and playgoers alike. While reviews were generally quite positive, some had difficulty accepting the play's feminist perspective. For instance, Ted Whitehead in The Spectator...

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

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...

BL 's More Light, a play for children of secondary-school age commissioned by the Education Department of the Royal National Theatre , was published by Faber and Faber in New Connections: New Plays for Young People.

BL 's play Frozen was published in the same month that it reached the stage of the Cottesloe Theatre in London (the smallest auditorium at the Royal National Theatre ).

BL 's stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson opened as a Christmas show at the National Theatre .

Faber reprinted the BL play in a slim volume on its own in 2001. Both this and a companion piece, Red Sky (in which modern archaeologists encounter the fragile and beautiful traces of the past)...

It was four years before Trevor Nunn , director of the National Theatre , managed to arrange a move from Birmingham to the Cottesloe Theatre in London for this play, with its original cast.

After her American success of Frozen, BL planned an adaptation of Dracula to premiere at Princeton University in June 2004, and Discontented Winter: House Remix as a youth play for the National Theatre in...

LL has written several plays for children and adolescents. These include Disgusting Objects, a play about schoolgirls' first encounter with sexism written for the Scottish Youth Theatre in 1982, and Shanghaied, a play...

EL served on boards of several theatres, including the Vic-Wells , the National Theatre , and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon. She was particularly devoted to the National Theatre cause and...

After EL 's death, Oliver Lyttelton carried on his mother's work for the National Theatre as an act of filial piety, eventually assuming the role of Chairman of the Board in 1962 and Life...