Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin.
160-2
Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | Following its success on Broadway, EB
's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
, directed by John Gielgud
and starring Peggy Ashcroft
and Edith Evans
. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 192 |
| 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: OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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. |
| Publishing | Isabel Hill | In the same year as My Own Twin Brother, 1834, IH
's West Country Wooing, a monodrama which she composed over the course of two summer evenings, was staged in the first of... |
| Textual Features | Ellen Wood | Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW
occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre
with one such woman... |
| Textual Production | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre
, Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree
's Henry Higgins. This... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Gore | This play was written in a bid to win a prize of £500 in a contest, sponsored by Benjamin Webster
of the Haymarket
, for the best modern comedy illustrative of British manners. Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-74. 55 |
| Textual Production | Emma Robinson | ER
, however, either instead of or as well as revising, then submitted her play elsewhere—to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
. There it seems to have been welcomed more unequivocally, but when sent to the... |
| Textual Production | Sir J. M. Barrie | SJMB
's fantasy play Mary Rose opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. In it a mother vanishes when her son is young and returns mysteriously unchanged to seek him after he has grown up. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 55 |
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.
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