“Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights.
Royal Court Theatre
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Performance of text | Winsome Pinnock | WP
's A Rock in Water, a play based on the life of Claudia Jones
, was given at the Royal Court Young People's Theatre
. |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Owners, CC
's first stage play in several years, opened in London at the Royal Court Theatre
Upstairs. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 108 |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Objections to Sex and Violence, a play by CC
, opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 109 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | Caryl Churchill | In April 2003 CC
participated in a series of events at the Royal Court
entitled War Correspondence. She composed her documentary piece Iraqdoc, out of actual remarks from a website chatroom frequented by... |
Textual Production | Winsome Pinnock | This was the first play that WP
wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the... |
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 | 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, 1996. 410 |
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, 1995. title-page, back cover |
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, 27 Sept. 2002. |
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