Louise Page

LP is a contemporary feminist playwright who has also made her mark in radio and television drama. Her first play to attract notice, Tissue, tackled the subject of breast cancer, and she has often written of ordinary lives put under stress by disease, war, or merely domestic difficulty.

Milestones

7 March 1955

LP was born in London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

3 May 1978

Members of Birmingham Repertory Theatre put on at Studio Theatre of the Belgrade in CoventryLP 's third-produced play, Tissue, which explores the way women saw their bodies
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
through the lens of breast cancer.
Page, Louise. “Tissue”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, pp. 75-103.
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2 August 1982

LP had another success with Salonika: her eighth mature play, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London (for whom she had written it on commission) and published in March 1983.
Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen.
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Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust.
back cover
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)

Biography

Birth and Family

7 March 1955

LP was born in London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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