Play Actors

Despite its short run, the play was a critical success. The Times heartily congratulated the Play Actors on their choice of play, saying that [o]ne such play as this a year would justify the existence...

The Play Actors society produced GS 's play The Stepmother at London's New Theatre in a single Sunday performance (other theatres being then closed).

GP 's Tilda's New Hat, a one-act comedy about love and fashion, was first performed by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre .

GP wrote several other one-act plays which were performed in London and further afield. These include Colleagues (performed at the Empire Theatre in Kilburn on 30 January 1911) and A Great Experiment (at the Lyceum Theatre

IB 's first play, a one-act suffrage drama entitled The Apple, had one matinee performance by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre in London.

The Play Actors were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London. The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...

EB wrote this and her later plays while in full-time employment. It and the other Court Theatre productions were put on by the Play Actors society. Chains was revived in 1910 by Dion Boucicault at...