National Theatre

AS originally composed Just for the youth theatre season run by the National Theatre (then called the Shell Connections Theatre Festival), an annual series of plays specially composed for performance by young actors.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Rutherford and Son enjoyed several revivals by feminist theatre groups and directors, including productions by Mrs Worthington's Daughters in June 1980 (abridged by Michelene Wandor ); Southern Lights at the...

In 1978 the National Theatre staged an adaptation of Lark Rise written by Keith Dewhurst . After Dewhurst's sequel, Candleford Green, opened in 1979, successive performances of both plays in a single day became...

The Wandering Jew, a play adapted by MW from Eugène Sue 's long, unwieldy novel Le Juif errant (serialized in French from June 1844 to July 1845), was performed at the National Theatre in London.

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...

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...

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...

TW contributed a play, Arden City, to the National Theatre 's annual festival of theatre for young people, 2008, and the subsequent printed anthology, that year's New Connections.

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...