OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Royal Shakespeare Company
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Employer | Margaret Drabble | She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company
under Peter Hall
, who was setting out... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | A further rewriting, under the original title, by Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele
, met with great success when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company
at Stratford in summer 1999. Joan Anim-Addo
's libretto Imoinda: Or... |
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 | Timberlake Wertenbaker | The Royal Shakespeare Company
moved its production to London in August 1989; the play had been published earlier that year. |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | The Royal Shakespeare Company
included the play in their regional tour, after which it transferred to the Globe Theatre
in London. Harvard University
holds a video-recording of a performance of this play in Hebrew. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. |
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 | 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 |
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) |
Performance of text | Margaret Atwood | The day before International Women's Day 2007, the Canadian National Arts Centre / Centre Nationale des Arts
announced that donations from seven individual Canadian women were funding a production of MA
's stage adaptation of... |
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 | Caryl Churchill | The Royal Shakespeare Company
produced CC
's Softcops, a revue-style drama influenced by Foucault
's Discipline and Punish. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 111-12 |
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 | Anne Devlin | AD
's play After Easter was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company
at Stratford's Other Place
theatre (the company's small, intimate venue). Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press. 94 Devlin, Anne. After Easter. Faber and Faber. prelims |
Timeline
2 May 1594: The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare,...
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2 May 1594
December 1821: Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery;...
Writing climate item
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
1960: The Royal Shakespeare Company was established...
Building item
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.
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