Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen.
prelims
Royal Court Theatre
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's critically acclaimed feminist drama Top Girls premièred at the Royal Court Theatre
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 110 |
| Performance of text | Louise Page | Want-Ad, about LP
's eighth play to be written, was the first to be heard in public, at a Royal Court Theatre
reading. It was staged by Birmingham Arts Lab
in 1977 and at... |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's widely successful verse drama about the London financial world, Serious Money, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 112 Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Methuen. prelims |
| Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | MW
has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist
's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller
's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby
's Rutherford and... |
| Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | Ripen Our Darkness, a play by SD
about a woman exploited by her family and ignored by society, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs (the smaller auditorium). Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 194-11. 207 Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen. 2 |
| Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
's play The Sport of My Mad Mother, originally written for a newspaper competition, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 220-1 |
| Performance of text | Louise Page | 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. 56 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) |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Icecream, CC
's play about tourists and tourism, set in Britain and the US, previewed at the Royal Court Theatre
, directed by Max Stafford-Clark
. Churchill, Caryl. Icecream. Nick Hern. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 113 |
| Performance of text | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's unsuccessful dramatic version of Eleanor, a collaboration with US playwright Julian Sturgis
, opened at the Court Theatre
in London with Elizabeth Robins
in her last professional role. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 414 Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable. 178 |
| Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's Abel's Sister opened at the Royal Court
's Theatre Upstairs. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 408 |
| Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | SD
's play The Devil's Gateway was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs. Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 194-11. 207 Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen. 74 |
| Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | The Royal Court
produced AJ
's The Rising Generation, a young people's play which had previously been rejected by the British Girl Guides Association
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 233 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 220-1 |
| Performance of text | Louise Page | In a collaborative play at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
entitled Falkland Sound/Voces de Malvinas and based on actual letters (those of David Tinker
) and interviews, LP
addressed the topic of war, its slaughter... |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's double bill of plays entitled Blue Heart of Blue/Heart began its tour with the Out of Joint
and Royal Court
theatre companies at Bury St Edmunds, moving soon afterwards to the Edinburgh Festival |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's play Far Away opened at the Royal Court
's Theatre Upstairs, directed by Stephen Daldry
. Churchill, Caryl. Far Away. Nick Hern and Royal Court Theatre. title-page |
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