Pioneer Players

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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, 1973.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
221
Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
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 .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
221
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Performance of text Cicely Hamilton
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 .
Author summary Edith Craig
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...
Reception Cicely Hamilton
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 .
Berney, Jane, editor. Women’s History Network Newsletter. http://http://womenshistorynetwork.org/enews.html.
May 2011
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, 1998.
100
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, 1973.
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Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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