Avenue Playhouse

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Florence Farr
FF began managing a season of plays at the Avenue Theatre in London.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
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Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
GBS 's first play to run at a commercial theatre, Arms and the Man, a satire on romantic notions of war and militarism, was produced by Florence Farr and Annie Horniman at the Avenue Theatre

Timeline

By April 1894: English theatre patron Annie Horniman funded...

Writing climate item

By April 1894

English theatre patron Annie Horniman funded a repertory season at the Avenue Theatre (later the Avenue Playhouse), London which concentrated on the new drama.

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