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Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | After this production, AJ
decided to take some time away from writing to concentrate on her two young children. In an interview in 1972, she claimed that she found it a relief to stop writing... |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Owners, CC
's first stage play in several years, opened in London at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 108 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's next play, Ashes to Ashes, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
. The production was by the Royal Court Theatre
(in exile while its buildings were renovated), and directed by the author. “Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Objections to Sex and Violence, a play by CC
, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 109 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's suffrage play, Votes for Women (one of the earliest in the genre), was first performed at the Court Theatre
. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 165 Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 25 , No. 3, pp. 347-61. 350 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's play Traps (written, this time, without the collaboration of a theatre group) was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 110 Churchill, Caryl. Traps. Pluto Press. prelims |
Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | GS
's realist drama Rutherford and Son was first produced at the Court Theatre
in London, where it had four matinée performances. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press. 166, 130 |
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 | Lady Cynthia Asquith | During the war LCA
received the last of three successive offers of significant acting roles, despite her total lack of dramatic training. Towards Christmas 1909 she had taken part in a charity production at the... |
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... |
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. 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. 107 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. 103 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 46: 68 |
Occupation | Sarah Kane | |
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
... |
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