Strand Theatre

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence	Emily Spender	It seems highly likely that this Son and Heir gave the first impulse to Gladys Unger for her anti-primogeniture play The Son and Heir, which opened at the Strand Theatre in London in early...
Occupation	Madeleine Lucette Ryley	Along with acting, MLR continued to work as a producer. On 15 March 1920 her production of Come out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller opened at the Strand Theatre . This domestic comedy...
Performance of text	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	The young MEB 's comedietta The Loves of Arcadia, set during the eighteenth century in the reign of the French king Louis XV , opened at the Strand Theatre in London. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 75
Performance of text	Madeleine Lucette Ryley	In May 1900 the farce opened at the Strand Theatre in London. The production had a new cast that included Yorke Stephens and Carrie Cronyn . Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007. 65
Performance of text	Elinor Glyn	Nine years later EG 's literary agent, Hughes Massie , had another version of the novel produced on the stage. For this he had the script revised to make it more conventional: the Lady ceased...
Performance of text	Henrik Ibsen	HI 's play John Gabriel Borkman began its run in London at the Strand Theatre . McFarlane, James, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen. Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxiii

Timeline

April 1870

Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were arrested at the Strand Theatre in London in women's attire, and charged with conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence.

Cook, Matt. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.

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June 1925

The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts Guild to promote socialist drama and performance.

Merkin, Ros. “The religion of socialism or a pleasant Sunday afternoon?: The ILP Arts Guild”. British Theatre between the Wars, 1918-1939, edited by Clive Barker and Maggie B. Gale, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 162-89.

162, 165, 168, 174-5, 181

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