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Performance of text | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy co-wrote this play with producer Basil Dean
. Opening night in London was a smashing success and a production in New York followed shortly afterwards, to similar acclaim. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 81 |
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
. Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin. 160-2 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 192 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre
: a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
, directed by Peter Hall
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 15-17 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | After touring the provinces, EB
's play The Last Joke opened at the Phoenix Theatre
in London, starring John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
. Bagnold, Enid. Four Plays. Little, Brown. 85 |
Occupation | Noel Streatfeild | After studying at RADA, NS
went on the stage, where she gained experience of everything from classic roles to revues and pantomime. Her first engagement was with the Charles DoranShakespeare
an Company
where she... |
Occupation | Edith Craig | In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare
performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud
and Sybil Thorndike
. Playwright Clemence Dane
gave a memorial speech... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Molly Keane | She was in the middle of writing a play when her husband died, and she found she could not go on with it. She was still pretty desolate Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press. 130 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Renault | The Charioteer's focus on homosexuality caused great concern to MR
's publishers. She had not published anything for five years, and this novel was a significant departure from her earlier work. In Britain her... |
Literary responses | Josephine Tey | The play was a moderate success, and ran for just over one hundred performances. Bargainnier, Earl F., editor. 10 Women of Mystery. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 45 |
Leisure and Society | Christopher St John | John Gielgud
and Peggy Ashcroft
performed in Twelfth Night in the Barn Theatre; it was on this night that CSJ
first met her new neighbours Vita Sackville-West
and Harold Nicolson
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 251 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Tey | John Gielgud
persuaded Daviot to revise the play after this initial production, the result of which, he claims, was that she improved the play, by a few brilliant strokes, almost beyond recognition. Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, p. ix - xii. ix |
Friends, Associates | Josephine Tey | JT
carefully guarded her privacy. Former neighbours reported that she was very reclusive and did most of her writing in a tiny summerhouse. The Inverness Courier's account of her death notes that she did... |
Friends, Associates | Josephine Tey | |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Jacob | NJ
said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott
. Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 174-6 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
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