Royal Court Theatre

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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 Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Abel's Sister opened at the Royal Court 's Theatre Upstairs.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Performance of text Sarah Daniels
SD 's play The Devil's Gateway was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
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, pp. 194-11.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen.
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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.
Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, pp. 9-23.
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Critics found it baffling, and faulted her for not providing a stronger plot and more engaging characters.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Commercially, the play was a resounding...
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.
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.
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Three Birds Alighting on a Field opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's The Break of Day opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London after touring the UK; it was published by Faber and Faber in London and Boston in the same year.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Break of Day. Faber and Faber.
title-page, back cover
Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
AJ knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production...
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.
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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.
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The production marks the beginning of CC 's long association with the Royal Court

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