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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. |
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. 186 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/. |
Performance of text | Mary Pix | It had first been performed about a month before. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 1: 526 |
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. 292 |
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. |
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;...
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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
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.
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