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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...

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...

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

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 &...

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...

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...

The plays, written for young actors, had all been workshopped at a residential weekend for members of various theatre companies somewhere in the Midlands (the workshop on Taking Breath being led by director Gemma Bodinetz

In summer 2005 SD contributed another play to a National Theatre Connections season for young people: Dust, which takes up the topic of bullying.

The National Theatre produced SD 's feminist play Neaptide on its Cottesloe stage. Printed the same year, the play is about lesbians living with prejudice and concealment.

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...