Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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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... |
Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | SB
's play Fin de partie (Endgame), a bleak piece about alienation set in a desolate world, was published in Paris. The next month it had its first performance (in French) at the Royal Court
, London. Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press. 65 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 60 Taylor, John Russell. The Penguin Dictionary of theTheatre. Penguin. 91 |
Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | SB
's play Endgame was banned from performance at the Royal Court
in London by the Lord Chancellor since the Deity was called a bastard. It finally opened in November this year. Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press. xi |
Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | SB
's Krapp's Last Tape, a play written originally in English for actor Patrick McGee or Magee
, was first performed by the English Stage Company
at the Royal Court
in London. Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press. 31 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 59 |
Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | SB
's play Happy Days opened for the first time in Britain at London's Royal Court
. Its female protagonist, Winnie (who spends the evening largely buried in sand), was played by Brenda Bruce
. Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press. 33 |
Textual Production | Samuel Beckett | London's Royal Court
had been vying with New York for the world premiere. Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby (1981) were all associated with the actress Billie Whitelaw
. Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 60 |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | It was published after 2 July with a dedication to the Earl of Rochester
(not her friend the poet, who had died six years before); AB
stopped the press until she was ready with her... |
Textual Production | Malorie Blackman | She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC
on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only... |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | In 2003 CC
's ten-minute play Iraqdoc was given at the Royal Court
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 273 “Caryl Churchill”. doollee.com: Playwrights. |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's critically acclaimed feminist drama Top Girls premièred at the Royal Court Theatre
. Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 110 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | CC
's A Number (a play about cloning, whose characters are exclusively male) opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London, directed by Stephen Daldry
. Gardner, Lyn. “A Number”. Guardian Unlimited. |