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Performance of text | Christopher St John | The Theatre of the Soul, a translation by Marie Potapenko
and CSJ
of Nikolai Evreinov
's expressionist play V kulisakh dushi, was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Little Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 893 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 119 |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | M. V. Salvage
and CSJ
's collaborative adaptation The Rising Sun by Herman Heijermans
was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Lyric Theatre
, Hammersmith. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 929 |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's adaptation/translation The Children's Carnival (from Carnaval des enfants by St Georges de Bouhelier
) was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Kingsway Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 928 |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's one-act play The First Actress made part of the inaugural performance (Kingsway Theatre
, London) of the newly founded Pioneer Players
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 928 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 221 |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's and Charles Thursby
's one-act play The Coronation, in which a monarch is converted to socialism on his way to be crowned, was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Savoy Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 928 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 112 |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's one-act play Macrena, about the nineteenth-century Polish nun Irena Macrena
, was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the King's Hall
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 928 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 115 |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's translation from the pioneering woman playwright Hrosvit, Hrotsvit, or Roswitha
, a one-act play called Paphnutius, was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Savoy Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 928 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 221 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christopher St John | Atwood, who had been exhibiting her paintings since 1893, trained at the Slade School
and was a member of the New English Art Club
. During World War I she was one of the few... |
Occupation | Christopher St John | CSJ
, as well as writing and acting for the Pioneer Players
, sat on their committees and served as honorary secretary, 1915-20. Her stage roles for the Players included one in Edith Craig's production... |
Textual Production | Christopher St John | The Pioneer Players
' production of this play was remarkable in that the society continued to perform controversial, thought-provoking plays during wartime when others (such as the Stage Society
) turned to plays less likely... |
Textual Production | George Paston | GP
's Clothes and the Woman: A Comedy in Three Acts was first produced by the Pioneers
at the Imperial Theatre
. These Pioneers are not the same group as Edith Craig
's feminist Pioneer Players
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 875 Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press. 164 |
Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | EL
's The Thumbscrew, a tragic one-act play condemning sweated labour, was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Little Theatre
in London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 797 Cockin, Katharine, and Jo Campling. Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: the Pioneer Players 1911-1925. Palgrave. 47 |
Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | Edith Craig
's Pioneer Players
mounted a production of Two Pierrots, EL
's adaptation of Rostand
's play Les deux Pierrots (which has been described as a curtain-raiser), at London's Little Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 797 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Performance of text | Constance Holme | CH
's dialect play The Home of Vision (one of her only two dramatic pieces to be performed in London over the course of her career) was acted by Edith Craig
's Pioneer Players
. 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. |
Textual Features | Cicely Hamilton | It later became part of the Pioneer Players
' repertoire. Often presented as a curtain-raiser for the Pageant of Great Women, the piece reproduced and satirized anti-suffragist stereotypes of women. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 100 |
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