Royal Court Theatre

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...

At about fourteen WP discovered live theatre in the form of a school trip. At sixteen, she says, she was a real stage-struck teenager, sitting on the steps [of the Royal Court Theatre ] in...

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...

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...

SD became an associate writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Between her first and her second marriage, AJ had a failed relationship with Keith Johnstone , a fellow Royal Court writer.

AJ was married for the second time, to Roger Mayne , a photographer she met at the Royal Court Theatre .

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

This began a long association with the Royal Court Theatre , during which several of her plays were produced there during the 1980s and 1990s.

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...

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.