Comedy Theatre

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Performance of text May Edginton
These two worked together again on a play entitled Secrets. ME 's Times obituary says that this was produced in 1922 at the Comedy Theatre , where it ran for 373 performances starring Fay Compton
Textual Production Pam Gems
Eighteen months later the production transferred to London's Comedy Theatre . Samuel French published the text in 1987.
Performance of text Clotilde Graves
The most successful of CG 's stage works, A Mother of Three, a lively farce, was seen at the Comedy Theatre in London; its leitmotif is the idea that men are unreliable.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Doris Lessing
DL 's three-act Play with a Tiger opened at the Comedy Theatre in London. In June this year it became the second of her plays to reach print.
Doris Lessing: A Retrospective. http://dorislessing.org/.
Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House.
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The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division.
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman's Honeymoon, a play co-authored by DLS and Muriel St Clare Byrne , opened at the Comedy Theatre in London. It ran for nine months and was adapted as a novel by Sayers.
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 77. Gale Research.
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Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Performance of text Lesley Storm
LS enjoyed her first theatrical success when her three-act comedy Tony Draws a Horse opened at the Comedy Theatre in London. It ran for 364 performances, lasting through the first few months of the...
Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW 's one-act play Permanance, part of a collaborative multi-act play on married life, was produced in London at the Comedy Theatre .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Timeline

15 October 1881: The Royal Comedy Theatre was opened....

Building item

15 October 1881

The Royal Comedy Theatre was opened.

1 September 1894: Sydney Grundy's satire on intellectual and...

Writing climate item

1 September 1894

Sydney Grundy 's satire on intellectual and emancipated women, The New Woman, opened at the Comedy Theatre in London; it was published the same year.

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