Royal Shakespeare Company

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Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
The Royal Shakespeare Company moved its production to London in August 1989; the play had been published earlier that year.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales , Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
The Royal Shakespeare Company performed a short play by MW , Mal de Mere, along with Whose Greenham.
Wandor, Michelene. Carry On, Understudies. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Reception Michelene Wandor
Time Out discerned in this sequence an astonishing density of feeling.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Marsha Rowe wrote that in To Die Among FriendsMW had cut the past in slices and re-arranged it as a layer cake, pretty...
Performance of text Mary Pix
It had first been performed about a month before.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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An adapted Royal Shakespeare Company version under the title of The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich opened in March 2018 at Stratford, UK.
Performance of text Harold Pinter
The Royal Shakespeare Company scored a notable success with HP 's play The Homecoming, written the previous year, directed by Peter Hall .
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
3 June 2009
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text Harold Pinter
Landscape and Silence, a pair of short plays by HP , were directed for the RSC by Peter Hall , having been delayed while Pinter battled the Lord Chamberlain (the British censor) for the...
Performance of text Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party and Other Plays was published in 1960, and this play alone in 1965. The Birthday Party was revived in 1964 by the Royal Shakespeare Company with Pinter himself directing, and again in...
Performance of text Louise Page
Golden Girls, a play by LP about women athletes, was staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at their small theatre, the Other Place . It was published in March 1985.
Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen.
216
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Publishing Louise Page
During the same year, 1986, a commission for LP from the Royal Shakespeare Company resulted in an anti-war play called Hawks and Doves. Ten years after the commission the play had not been produced...
Textual Production Louise Page
In 1992 an educational grant from the Royal Shakespeare Company funded LP 's adaptation, for children, of Antigone by Sophocles , entitled Royal Blood Bath 3.
Eisen, Kurt. “Louise Page”. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Source Book, edited by William W. Demastes, Greenwood Press, pp. 291-00.
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Performance of text Hilary Mantel
Despite her earlier unwillingness to spend time on adaptations, HM collaborated with Mike Poulton on the stage adaptations of her first two Cromwell novels, under the same titles.Both plays opened in productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company
Occupation Liz Lochhead
LL 's several positions as Writer-in-Residence have included Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee (1980), the Tattenhall Centre , near Chester (1982-84), Edinburgh University (1985-87), and the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988-89, on...
Performance of text Deborah Levy
DL 's Heresies opened at the Barbican Theatre (The Pit) in London in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company .
“Deborah Levy”. doollee.com The Playwrights Database.
Levy
Performance of text Jackie Kay
She and Jo Shapcott read their poems (together with rising starsJay Bernard and Kayo Chingonyi ) at the Royal Shakespeare Company 's redesigned Swan Theatre at Stratford on 3 December 2010.
Uncertainty is Not a Good Dog.
The same month...

Timeline

2 May 1594: The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare,...

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2 May 1594

The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare , was entered in the Stationers' Register.

December 1821: Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery;...

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December 1821

Byron published his verse dramaCain: A Mystery; the title-page said 1822.

December 1958: Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company,...

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December 1958

Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company , to perform both at Stratford and in London.

1960: The Royal Shakespeare Company was established...

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1960

The Royal Shakespeare Company was established under director Peter Hall : it began with a spring and summer season in Stratford upon Avon, then a winter season at the Aldwych Theatre , London.

9 December 1960: A letter from the Joint Council of the National...

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9 December 1960

A letter from the Joint Council of the National Theatre to the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed that the National Theatre Company should expand to swallow up the just-founded Royal Shakespeare Company .

October 1973: Peter Hall left the Royal Shakespeare Company...

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October 1973

Peter Hall left the Royal Shakespeare Company to assume directorship of the National Theatre Company (offered him the previous year), in succession to Sir Laurence Olivier .

24 November 2010: The redesigned Royal Shakespeare Theatre...

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24 November 2010

The redesigned Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford upon Avon opened to the public with exhibitions, events, and tours. Theatrical productions were to follow in February 2011.
Royal Shakespeare Company,. Email to Friends of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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