“The Play Ground, ’Reaching out for life in a new country’: Winsome Pinnock on her play Leave Taking”. Nick Hern Books, 23 May 2018.
Royal Court Theatre
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Education | Winsome Pinnock | At about fourteen WP
discovered live theatre in the form of a school trip. |
Education | Louise Page | LP
took a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University
in 1976 (the year her first play received a reading at the Royal Court Theatre
). She followed it with a post-graduate degree... |
Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
Employer | Sarah Daniels | SD
became an associate writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. 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, 1990. |
Employer | Louise Page | In 1979 LP
had a post at the University of Sheffield
as Yorkshire Television
's Fellow in Drama and Television. She was also employed to teach at the University of Birmingham
. In 1982-3 she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Jellicoe | Between her first and her second marriage, AJ
had a failed relationship with Keith Johnstone
, a fellow Royal Court
writer. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
was married for the second time, to Roger Mayne
, a photographer she met at the Royal Court Theatre
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 221 |
Fictionalization | T. S. Eliot | During TSE
's last years he reaped a rich harvest of public honours, both in Britain and internationally. Since then his standing as leading poet of the modernist movement and dominant figure of twentieth-century English... |
Friends, Associates | Maureen Duffy | At this time she was friendly with a group of writers connected with the Royal Court Theatre
, and also with authors J. G. Farrell
and Heathcote Williams
, and with publisher Graham Nicol
... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Ann Jellicoe | The site was chosen as a compromise when several Axminster venues proved unwelcoming for political reasons having to do with relations among the area's various schools and with resistance from the Axminster Dramatic Society
... |
Occupation | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
began her tenure as the Royal Court Theatre
's literary manager, a job that involved selecting plays for production: the two years during which she held this post helped launch the careers of several... |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | This began a long association with the Royal Court Theatre
, during which several of her plays were produced there during the 1980s and 1990s. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes. 46: 68-9 Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Gale Research. 19: 89-90 |
Occupation | Anne Devlin | The success of AD
's first play, Ourselves Alone, in 1985 led to several new opportunities for her. She became an associate director at the Royal Court Theatre
in London and took up positions... |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | CC
was resident dramatist and tutor for the Young Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. She was the first woman to hold this position. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 107 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. 103 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes. 46: 68 |
Occupation | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
had a long-standing professional relationship with the Royal Court Theatre
. Around the time her play The Sport of My Mad Mother was performed at the Court, she became involved in the newly formed... |
Timeline
1871: The New Chelsea Theatre (opened the previous...
Building item
1871
The New Chelsea Theatre
(opened the previous year) became known as the Royal Court Theatre
.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
284
24 September 1888: The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the...
Building item
24 September 1888
The Royal Court Theatre
(at this date the Court Theatre) moved to a new site.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
151-2
24 September 1888: The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the...
Building item
24 September 1888
The Royal Court Theatre
(at this date the Court Theatre) moved to a new site.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
151-2
8 May 1956: John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger opened...
Writing climate item
8 May 1956
John Osborne
's play Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London; within a few weeks, on 28 May, Colin Wilson
published The Outsider, a romanticizing study of the...
10 April 1957: Playwright John Osborne's The Entertainer...
Building item
10 April 1957
Playwright John Osborne
's The Entertainer was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
in London, with Laurence Olivier
playing the lead.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
413
19 August 1977: The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley...
Women writers item
19 August 1977
The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley
opened at the Royal Court Theatre
; it transferred to the West End later this year and won a string of awards.
Wandor, Michelene. Understudies. Methuen, 1981.
68-9
1980: Andrea Dunbar published The Arbor: A Play,...
Women writers item
1980
Andrea Dunbar
published The Arbor: A Play, which had a moderately successful run at the Royal Court Theatre
.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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, 1990.
1982: The Royal Court Theatre commissioned Rita,...
Women writers item
1982
The Royal Court Theatre
commissioned Rita, Sue and Bob Too from Andrea Dunbar
.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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, 1990.
1984: The Royal Court Theatre performed Elisabeth...
Women writers item
1984
The Royal Court Theatre
performed Elisabeth Bond
's play Minor Complications influenced by visits to India and her family's connection with the British Raj. The same year her Sideways Down was produced at Riverside Studios
1986: Jacqueline Rudet's dramatic work Money to...
Women writers item
1986
Jacqueline Rudet
's dramatic work Money to Live and an associated afterword were included in Plays By Women, edited by Mary Remnant
.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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, 1990.
1988: Andrea Dunbar's Shirley, which was produced...
Women writers item
1988
Andrea Dunbar
's Shirley, which was produced by the Royal Court Theatre
in 1986, was first published in a volume with the republished plays Rita, Sue and Bob Too and The Arbor.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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, 1990.
February 2000: The Royal Court Theatre re-opened after having...
Building item
February 2000
The Royal Court Theatre
re-opened after having shut down for rebuilding in 1997.
“About. Outline/History”. Royal Court.
11 July 2009: Enron, only the second play by Lucy Prebble...
Women writers item
11 July 2009
Enron, only the second play by Lucy Prebble
to reach the stage, opened at ChichesterFestival Theatre
, dramatising the spectacular crash of the US energy giant Enron
.
“What’s On”. Chichester Festival Theatre, 2009.
Texts
Hastings, Michael. Tom and Viv. Royal Court Theatre, 1984.