OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
National Theatre
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Bryony Lavery | BL
's More Light, a play for children of secondary-school age commissioned by the Education Department of the Royal National Theatre
, was published by Faber and Faber
in New Connections: New Plays for Young People. |
| Employer | Harold Pinter | As well as writing (in many other genres as well as for the theatre) Pinter also directed regularly: for instance, The Man in the Glass Booth by Robert Shaw
, 1967, Otherwise Engaged by his... |
| Employer | Winsome Pinnock | In her late teens WP
planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | After EL
's death, Oliver Lyttelton
carried on his mother's work for the National Theatre
as an act of filial piety, Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton, first Viscount. The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. Bodley Head, 1962. xv |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The 1986 deregulation of the stock market—the Big Bang—by fortunate coincidence Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Revised and Re-issued Edition in the Methuen Modern Play Series, Methuen, 1990. prelims |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | The legacy of Frankenstein is immense and widely diffused. It has been successfully filmed not once but several times, as simple horror movie and as intellectualised retelling with a gruesome birth scene only marginally connected... |
| Literary responses | Pam Gems | This play brought PG
's work to the attention of critics and playgoers alike. While reviews were generally quite positive, some had difficulty accepting the play's feminist perspective. For instance, Ted Whitehead
in The Spectator... |
| Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | The Chalk Garden remains EB
's best-known work. While it has had frequent revivals by amateur and professional companies, Bagnold was disappointed that the National Theatre
never expressed interest in reviving it, an omission she... |
| Literary responses | Winsome Pinnock | WP
was touched and delighted when members of the National Theatre
audience (mostly white and relatively affluent) saw the likeness between their own parents and those on stage. Stephenson, Heidi, and Natasha Langridge. Rage and Reason: Women Playwrights on Playwriting. Methuen Drama, 1997. |
| Literary responses | Caryl Churchill | Top Girls achieved tremendous popular and critical success. In 1999, National Theatre
audiences voted it one of the top One Hundred Plays of the Century—and the only play by a woman to make the top... |
| Occupation | Edith Lyttelton | EL
served on boards of several theatres, including the Vic-Wells
, the National Theatre
, and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
at Stratford upon Avon. She was particularly devoted to the National Theatre cause and... |
| Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | In the 1980s and 1990s, Rutherford and Son enjoyed several revivals by feminist theatre groups and directors, including productions by Mrs Worthington's Daughters
in June 1980 (abridged by Michelene Wandor
); Southern Lights
at the... |
| Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | The National Theatre
produced SD
's feminist play Neaptide on its Cottesloe stage. Printed the same year, the play is about lesbians living with prejudice and concealment. Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11. 207 Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991. 234 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Performance of text | Pam Gems | PG
adapted and translated several Chekhov plays over the following decades. In 1984 her version of The Cherry Orchard opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in Leicester, and in 2007 it was directed by Jonathan Miller |
| Performance of text | Gillian Slovo | The Temporary Theatre at the National Theatre
saw the debut of Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, a verbatim play by GS
, directed by her former co-worker in this genre, Nicholas Kent
. Latif, Nadia, and Omar El-Kairy. “Censorship, blindspots and bomb squads”. The Guardian, 14 Apr. 2016, pp. G16 - 17. Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com, 17 Apr. 2016. |
Timeline
19 May 1908: A campaign to establish a National Theatre...
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19 May 1908
A campaign to establish a National Theatre
began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre
, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
341
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Papermac, 1987, http://4-22.
535
9 March 1949: A National Theatre Act was passed by the...
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9 March 1949
A National Theatre
Act was passed by the British Parliament
, which allowed the Treasury
to contribute towards national theatre costs.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
177-8
Woodward, Richard, and Isobel Grundy. Email about National Theatre Act of 1949 to Isobel Grundy. 22 Aug. 2003.
13 July 1951: Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone...
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13 July 1951
Queen Elizabeth II
laid the foundation stone of the National Theatre
, on the South Bank, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
404
11 April 1967: Tom Stoppard's first great stage success,...
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11 April 1967
Tom Stoppard
's first great stage success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, had its professional debut at the National Theatre
in London. A version had been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of...
25 October 1976: The National Theatre's new home on the South...
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25 October 1976
The National Theatre
's new home on the South Bank officially opened with a royal gala performance of a comedy by Carlo Goldoni
in its larger auditorium, the Olivier.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
244-5
13 April 1993: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, a play whose action...
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13 April 1993
Tom Stoppard
's Arcadia, a play whose action is divided between the early nineteenth century and the present day, opened (after previews) at the National Theatre
in London.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
64610 (5 April 1993): 28
September-November 2005: An exhibition at the National Theatre in...
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September-November 2005
An exhibition at the National Theatre
in London, Flogging the Jewels, celebrated thirty years of the company now called Sphinx
(formerly the Women's Theatre Group).
de Angelis, April. “Riddle of the Sphinx”. Guardian Unlimited, 10 Sept. 2005.
By 13 May 2007: The director of London's National Theatre,...
Women writers item
By 13 May 2007
The director of London's National Theatre
, Nicholas Hytner
, alleged that critics (whom he called dead white men) showed misogyny in reviewing plays by women.
“Are the critics strangling theatre?”. The Guardian, 15 May 2007, pp. G2: 28 - 9.
G2: 28-9
Texts
NT2000: 100 Plays of the Century. National Theatre, 1999.
Program: Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby. National Theatre, 1994.