National Theatre

CC 's ecological drama, The Skriker, was produced at the National Theatre (now officially, since 1988, the Royal National Theatre ). This was only its second staging of a play by a living British...

CC 's A Dream Play, translated from a play by Strindberg dating from 1901, was published, close to its opening night at the National Theatre in London.

CC 's short play Here We Go, a striking memento mori for an age without faith, opened at the National Theatre ; it was published nexg day.

Its London run at the Royal Court Theatre began three weeks later. A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.

Top Girls achieved tremendous popular and critical success. In 1999, National Theatre audiences voted it one of the top One Hundred Plays of the Century—and the only play by a woman to make the top...

The 1986 deregulation of the stock market—the Big Bang—by fortunate coincidence took place during the play's workshop and development period. The play centres on a corporate takeover, which functions allegorically: a corporate raider...

Daily Telegraph referred to this play as the cleverest murder mystery of the British theatre, while the Observer identified it as a classic. In June 1999 the set used in the original production...

The Chalk Garden remains EB 's best-known work. While it has had frequent revivals by amateur and professional companies, Bagnold was disappointed that the National Theatre never expressed interest in reviving it, an omission she...

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...