Mackay, Shena. Redhill Rococo. Abacus.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Shena Mackay | SM
has written a play, Nurse Macater, for the National Theatre
. Mackay, Shena. Redhill Rococo. Abacus. prelims |
Performance of text | Iris Murdoch | 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
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 548 |
Performance of text | Winsome Pinnock | 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. “Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights. |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | 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... |
Textual Production | Winsome Pinnock | 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... |
Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | 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. Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama. |
Textual Production | Winsome Pinnock | In early 2017 WP
was working on a play for the Royal National Theatre Studio
, as well as a novel. “Winsome Pinnock”. Kingston University London. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | 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
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 15-17 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play Betrayal opened at the National Theatre
(on the smaller Lyttelton stage), directed by Peter Hall
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | Other Places, an evening of three one-act plays by HP
, opened at the National Theatre
: Family Voices, Victoria Station, and A Kind of Alaska. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 138 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
performed in his own short dramatic satire Press Conference at the National Theatre
. Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber. 415 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Employer | Harold Pinter | 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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | The legacy of Frankenstein is immense and widely diffused. It has been successfully filmed not once but several times, as simple horror movie and as intellectualised retelling with a gruesome birth scene only marginally connected... |
Performance of text | Gillian Slovo | 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
. Latif, Nadia, and Omar El-Kairy. “Censorship, blindspots and bomb squads”. The Guardian, pp. G16 - 17. Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com. |
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