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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... |
Occupation | Sarah Kane | |
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, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970. 31 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995. 59 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | A play by CC
entitled Love and Information opened at the Royal Court Theatre
for a five-week run; it was published the same year. de Angelis, April. “Caryl Churchill: changing the language of theatre”. Guardian.co.uk, 7 Sept. 2012. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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, 1992. 166, 130 |
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, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970. 33 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's short play Escaped Alone, with its extraordinary cast of four ordinary women, all but one aged seventy or older, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London for a run of two... |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | The original production, directed by Jules Wright
, moved with only one cast change from Manchester to London, to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
, in November 1983, and to the main auditorium on... |
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, 1992. 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, Aug. 2018, pp. 347-61. 350 |
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, 1996. 220-1 |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | SD
dedicated this play to all the friends, both mothers and teachers who have shared their experiences with me. She acknowledged the influence of Phyllis Chesler
's interpretation of the myth of Demeter and Persephone... |
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 | 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... |
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, 1996. 220-1 |
Performance of text | Shelagh Delaney | A second, moderately successful production of SD
's play The Lion in Love opened at London's Royal Court Theatre
, where it was presented by the English Stage Company
. Delaney, Shelagh. The Lion in Love. Methuen, 1961. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 121 |
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