Beecham, Richard, and Patricia Riley. “Foreword”. Looking for Githa, New Writing North.
Jonathan Miller
Standard Name: Miller, Jonathan
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Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | Beecham
called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century. |
Reception | Githa Sowerby | Reviewers in 2013 were more critical. The Independent judged the play too black-and-white in its moral outlook to be a newly discovered masterpiece, but reported nevertheless that it emerges as a powerfully indignant protest at... |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | PG
adapted and translated several Chekhov plays over the following decades. In 1984 her version of The Cherry Orchard opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in Leicester, and in 2007 it was directed by Jonathan Miller |
Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | In the 1980s and 1990s, Rutherford and Son enjoyed several revivals by feminist theatre groups and directors, including productions by Mrs Worthington's Daughters
in June 1980 (abridged by Michelene Wandor
); Southern Lights
at the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Betty Miller | BM
published her second novel, Sunday, three months after the birth of her son
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1707 (18 October 1934): 717 Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. xi |
Literary responses | Betty Miller | Her famous son Jonathan
has called her a devotee of the negligible and the trivial and the commonplace— O’Hagan, Simon. “He was always a man of many parts”. The Independent on Sunday, p. 7. 7 |
Literary responses | Ann Oakley | The book was marketed with laudatory comments from Susie Orbach
(best-known for her Fat is a Feminist Issue, 1978), Julia Twigg
(a specialist in the provision of physical care), and Jonathan Miller
(physician and writer). |
Friends, Associates | Fay Weldon | Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
, David
and Assia Wevill
, Kingsley Amis
and Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Bernice Rubens
, psychologist R. D. Laing |
Family and Intimate relationships | Betty Miller | BM
's son Jonathan Miller
, the future physician, satirist, writer, director, and sculptor, was born. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. xi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Betty Miller | Six years before this he had founded the East London Child Guidance Clinic
, the first of its kind in Europe. The couple's son Jonathan Miller
spoke at an event in 2002 to mark the... |
Timeline
23 August 1960: The satirical review Beyond the Fringe, launched...
Writing climate item
23 August 1960
The satirical review Beyond the Fringe, launched at the Edinburgh Festival, inaugurated a new style of surreal and irreverent topical comedy in Britain.
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