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politics | Rebecca West | |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's play about English civil war revolutionaries, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, was produced by the Joint Stock Theatre Group
at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre
during the Edinburgh Festival
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 109 Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press. back cover Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen. xii |
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 | T. S. Eliot | |
Performance of text | T. S. Eliot | TSE
's drama The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the EdinburghFestival
, and it was published by Faber and Faber
the next year. Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace. 90-1 |
Performance of text | T. S. Eliot | |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | PG
's all-woman play Dead Fish was first performed at Edinburgh'sKundry's Theatre
for the Edinburgh Festival
; its title was subsequently changed to Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi. Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen. 49 Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73. 171 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 160 |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | Besides Dead Fish, a second play by PG
, Guinevere, was also produced at the Edinburgh Festival
in 1976. Gems speculates that it was never published because it was a short, one-woman play... |
Performance of text | Sarah Kane | SK
's early, unpublished writing for the stage included monologues performed at Bristol and at the Edinburgh Festival
. The Edinburgh monologues, overall called Sick, were individually Comic Monologue, Starved, and What... |
Performance of text | Claire Luckham | Intended for a working-class audience, the play was inspired in part by Brecht
; CL
says she was particularly interested in his enthusiasm for boxing and the relationship between fighters and their audience. Reinelt, Janelle. “Beyond Brecht: Britain’s New Feminist Drama”. Feminist Theatre and Theory, edited by Helene Keyssar, St Martin’s Press, pp. 25-48. 40 |
Performance of text | Muriel Spark | The production was directed by Donald McWhinnie
, and moved eventually from the New Arts Theatre to the West End, despite Spark's being unreceptive to theatrical habits like rewriting during the course of the run... |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's New Anatomies, produced by the Women's Theatre Group
, re-opened in London after appearing at the EdinburghFestival
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 408 |
Literary responses | Sarah Kane | Crave was met with critical acclaim when presented at the Edinburgh Festival
. Greig, David, and Sarah Kane. “Introduction”. Complete Plays, Methuen Drama, p. ix - xviii. xv |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maud Sulter | MS
met African American Larry Waldren
at the Edinburgh Festival and they had a brief affair, which ended while she was visiting him in New York. Sulter, Maud. “Biographical Sketch and Poems”. Dream State: The New Scottish Poets, edited by Daniel O’Rourke, Polygon, pp. 127-32. 128 |
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