Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973.
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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, 1973. xi |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's immensely controversial ten-minute work Seven Jewish Children—a Play for Gaza premiered at the Royal Court Theatre
in London, causing a furore which spread globally over the next few months. Churchill, Caryl. “Read Caryl Churchillapos;s Seven Jewish Children”. guardia.co.uk, 2009. |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | Another play by SD
opened at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs: The Madness of Esme and Shaz, performed by the English Stage Company
. 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, 2000, pp. 194-11. 207 Daniels, Sarah. Plays: Two. Methuen, 1994. 264, chronology |
politics | Ann Jellicoe | Looking back at her time at the Royal Court
from 1984, however, AJ
commented: I was awfully blind—I'm one of the ones that's been re-educated. . . . I didn't appreciate what tremendous disadvantages I... |
Author summary | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
was one of the new, post-war generation of playwrights associated with the Royal Court
, who helped to revitalise theatre in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her early plays, whose plotlessness... |
Publishing | Sarah Daniels | SD
began writing after reading an injunction from Doris Lessing
about putting one's life in order. Some fringe plays that she attended were absolutely dreadful, which made her confident that she could do better... |
Publishing | Ann Jellicoe | The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court
, despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ
credits John Osborne
for persuading them to produce... |
Reception | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
later described this play as a flop d'estime. qtd. in Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 9-23. 12 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 220, 222 |
Reception | Ann Jellicoe | Michael Coveney
and David Edgar
counted this, with The Knack, part of a legendary canon in Sloane Square (home of the Royal Court Theatre
). Coveney, Michael, and David Edgar. “Ann Jellicoe obituary”. theguardian.com, 1 Sept. 2017. |
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | Its original production was at the Royal Court Theatre
in London 1958. In April 2015 a revival opened at the |
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, 1995. 60 |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | The play was commissioned by Michael Codron
, an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter
and Joe Orton
. Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan, 1991. 61 |
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... |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | In this production CC
continued her longtime collaboration with director Max Stafford-Clark
, who had worked on several of her Joint Stock
and Royal Court
plays. Churchill, Caryl. Blue Heart. Theatre Communications Group, 1997. prelims |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | In the five years after university she completed three stage plays and counted herself one of a group of playwrights connected with the Royal Court Theatre
, which included John Arden
, Edward Bond
,... |
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