National Theatre

As well as writing (in many other genres as well as for the theatre) Pinter also directed regularly: for instance, The Man in the Glass Booth by Robert Shaw , 1967, Otherwise Engaged by his...

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.

In her late teens WP planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as...

This was the first play that WP wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the...

WP was touched and delighted when members of the National Theatre audience (mostly white and relatively affluent) saw the likeness between their own parents and those on stage. In 1991 this play won her the...

In early 2017 WP was working on a play for the Royal National Theatre Studio , as well as a novel.

One of IM 's two Plato nic dialogues, Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art, was given as a platform performance at the National Theatre .

SM has written a play, Nurse Macater, for the National Theatre .

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...

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...

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 .