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Literary responses | Evelyn Glover | The Times's review of the Little Theatre
production on 24 June 1912 offered begrudging praise, describing the play as a female suffragist tract, but a tract with more fun and actuality in it than... |
Occupation | Henry Fielding | Having had his first play produced in February 1728 and gone on to achieve some success in the difficult metier of London playwright, HF
became manager of the Little Theatre
in the Haymarketbecause that... |
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, 1973. 797 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Performance of text | Inez Bensusan | London's Little Theatre
produced IB
's Nobody's Sweetheart, a one-act play in which the heroine proves her courage by cross-dressing to join a rescue mission at sea. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 508 Pfisterer, Susan, and Carolyn Pickett. Playing with Ideas. Currency Press, 1999. 48 |
Performance of text | G. B. Stern | GBS
's first play (entitled For One Night Only) opened in London at the Little Theatre
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | Rutherford and Son by GS
re-opened at London's Little Theatre
. It became a critical success, and moved on to the Vaudeville
, bringing its total run to 133 performances. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992. 166, 130 |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Another play by GBS
about women's rights, Fanny's First Play, premiered at London's Little Theatre
. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxvi |
Performance of text | Evelyn Glover | The play's vivid characters and snappy dialogue, alongside its minimal staging requirements, made it one of the most popular plays in the AFL's suffrage repertoire. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981. 88 |
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, 1973. 797 Cockin, Katharine, and Jo Campling. Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: the Pioneer Players 1911-1925. Palgrave, 2001. 47 |
Textual Production | Edith Lyttelton | EL
also wrote two one-act morality plays: her Christmas Morality Play was published by E. Mathews
in 1908, and Dame Julian
's Window was produced by the Morality Play Society
at London's Little Theatre
on... |
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