Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

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Literary responses Frances Burney
The reanimation of FB 's comedies is a happy story. Tara Ghoshal Wallace edited A Busy Day in paperback in 1984. A fringe production performed in Bristol in 1993, then in Islington, London, in...
Occupation Harriett Jay
After this HJ seems to have done less professional acting, while The Stage reported in June 1888 that she was shortly to produce, as well as taking the lead role in, a charity performance of...
Performance of text Teresa Deevy
This ran for six performances.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
Timeline
It does not appear to have been published, but it was revived at the Lyric Theatre , London, on 14 January 1957 as an opener for Sean O'Casey
Performance of text Julia Constance Fletcher
In spring 1909 George Fleming 's The Conquest was withdrawn after opening briefly at the Lyric Theatre . It is a historical drama in which the genre of romantic comedy is swamped by violent, melodramatic action.
Scott, Eric Clement. “The Playhouses”. The Bystander, Vol.
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, No. 283, 5 May 1909, p. 283, https://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/docview/1666654995/1E462BB1FCB84295PQ/12?accountid=14474.
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Performance of text Dodie Smith
DS 's first West End play, Autumn Crocus (written under the pseudonym C. L. Anthony), was booed at its premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue , but went on to become a great...
Performance of text Madeleine Lucette Ryley
After having what Forbes-Robertson called so much success in Manchester the production went to London, where on 27 January 1902 it opened at the Lyric Theatre .
Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007.
79, 97
Although the production officially closed...
Textual Production Pam Gems
It transferred to the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue , London, the following April. It was quickly published and reproduced in sound recordings.
Gems, Pam. Marlene. Oberon Books, 1996.
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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, 2000, pp. 157-73.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Timeline

17 December 1888: The original Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue,...

Building item

17 December 1888

The original Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue , London, opened as a venue with a comic opera, Dorothy.
Lyric Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London. http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/westendvenues/lyric.htm.

May 1893: Eleanora Duse made her London debut at the...

Building item

May 1893

Eleanora Duse made her London debut at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue , in La Dame aux Camellias.
Weaver, William. Duse: a biography. Thames and Hudson, 1984.
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Vergani, Leonardo. Eleanora Duse. Aldo Martello Editore, 1958.
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