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Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | George Paston | The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton
's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan
on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League
and the Women Writers' Suffrage League |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
's stage adaptation of her earlier novel Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (1905) premiered at the Haymarket Theatre
as Priscilla Runs Away. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 115, 145, 152 |
| 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... |
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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