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Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Emma Robinson | The play's cover (still purporting to be by a young Oxonian) bore the words: The Prohibited Comedy. Its title continued: an historical comedy in five acts: |
| Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Vedrenne
and Barker
first presented Getting Married, GBS
's discussion play critiquing Britain's marriage laws, at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press. xxv Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
| Performance of text | Catherine Crowe | A later romantic drama in five acts by CC
, The Cruel Kindness (dating from 1853), was performed at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
| Performance of text | Dodie Smith | DS
's critically acclaimed play Touch Wood—the first to be produced under her real name—opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge. 218 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 89, 92 |
| Occupation | Mary Cowden Clarke | A production of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Charles Dickens
's Amateur Company
opened at the Haymarket Theatre
, with MCC
as Mistress Quickly, wearing Elizabethan costume she had made herself. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 136-7 |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
, as Mrs William Gooch, acted during the off-season at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 6: 249 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Charlton | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that Thomas Dibdin
used a translation from La Fontaine by MC
as the basis of a comedy, Guilty or Not Guilty, which opened at the Haymarket
in... |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Glover | Though not known to the eminent residents of the nearby square, EG
enjoyed a cordial acquaintance with many of their cooks and butlers, based on a shared love of cats. She mentions some theatrical friends:... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Timeline
October 1972: A gala performance was held at the Haymarket...
Building item
October 1972
A gala performance was held at the Haymarket Theatre
, featuring all the leading lights of the British stage, to celebrate Dame Sybil Thorndike
's ninetieth birthday.
Texts
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