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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 |
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. 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. 875 Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press. 164 |
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