Eighteen months later the production transferred to London's Comedy Theatre
. Samuel French
published the text in 1987.
Textual Production
Charlotte Riddell
The play was printed by Samuel French
as George Geith; or, Romance of a City Life, A Drama in four acts and a tableau, 1880. Reeve and his leading lady, Ada Lester
, toured...
Textual Production
Harriett Jay
This did even better than most of their joint plays, clocking up their longest consecutive run (256 performances).
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.
By early 1897 HJ
transformed it into a novel (her final work of fiction) under the same...
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
DS
once again had trouble placing her next plays, That Which Hath Been, set in a monastery, and Amateur Means Lover, set in a Camden Town rooming house. The latter was eventually performed...
Textual Production
Jennifer Johnston
JJ
's playThe Nightingale and not the Lark (titled with a quotation from Shakespeare
's Romeo and Juliet) was published at London by Samuel French
.
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Textual Production
Molly Keane
An acting edition was published by Samuel French
and another edition by Collins
, both in 1951. It appeared the following year from Collins
, adapted to novel form.
Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press.
166
Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon.
285
Textual Production
Molly Keane
An acting edition was published by Samuel French
that year.
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Its failure was ascribed to coincidence in timing with John Osborne
's highly successful kitchen-sink play Look Back in Anger. That had in fact...
Textual Production
Lesley Storm
Samuel French
published the play the following year.
Textual Production
George Paston
Samuel French
published GP
's Stars: A Comedy, a one-act play in which a husband-and-wife acting duo battle over their reviews.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Textual Production
George Paston
Annie Horniman
gave this play two successful revivals in Manchester: at the Midland Hotel Theatre
in October 1907, and at the Gaiety Theatre
in 1908, where its proceeds guaranteed the season's financial success.
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
164
Textual Production
Fay Weldon
FW
's Flood Warning: A Play (for two men and three women) was published by Samuel French
.
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Textual Production
George Paston
The production was a success, running for 167 performances. The play was published the same year by Samuel French
.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919. Scarecrow Press.
10.86
Textual Production
Fay Weldon
This play was published in October 1980 by Samuel French
.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1982
Weldon, Fay. Action Replay. Samuel French.
title page
Textual Production
George Paston
It was revived at the same theatre on 20 March 1909, when it ran for eighty-three performances, and was published that year by Samuel French
.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1900-1909. Scarecrow Press.
9.73
Textual Production
George Paston
This popular play saw two West End revivals the following year. First it had thirty-nine performances at His Majesty's Theatre
alongside Bernard Shaw
's The Admirable Bashville, and this was followed by ninety-eight performances...
Timeline
1957: Dulcie Gray launched her publishing career:...
Women writers item
1957
Dulcie Gray
launched her publishing career: Samuel French
issued her playLove Affair (which had been staged the previous year) and the first of her murder mysteries, Murder on the Stairs, also appeared.
1958: Elaine Morgan's one-act play The Waiting-Room...
