Pioneer Players

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
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