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Performance of text Jackie Kay
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...
politics Harold Pinter
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...
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 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, 2005, p. vii - xxiii.
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Its first draft won the George Devine Award.
Remnant, Mary, editor. “Introduction”. Plays by Women: Volume 6, Methuen, 1987, pp. 7-12.
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Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times...
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...
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...
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.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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In June 1999 the set used in the original production...
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...
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 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...
Textual Features Bernardine Evaristo
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 &...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
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 ).
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
“Bryony Lavery”. doollee.com: Playwrights.
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
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...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
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.
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...

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