Pioneer Players

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.

Jack and Jill and a Friend, CH 's comic drama about the difficulties of being a woman writer, was performed by the Pioneer Players at the Kingsway Theatre in London, directed by Edith Craig .

Later that year it toured provincial suffrage societies for the Actresses' Franchise League , under the direction of Edith Craig . It eventually became a staple piece for Craig's Pioneer Players .

EC was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players , the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and...

The pageant moved into the twenty-first century with a production by Anna Birch on 7 May 2011 at the conference that celebrated the Pioneer Players at the University of Hull .

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.

GP 's Clothes and the Woman: A Comedy in Three Acts was first produced by the Pioneers at the Imperial Theatre .

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...