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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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, Oliver Lyttelton, first Viscount Chandos,. The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. Bodley Head, 1962. xv |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The 1986 deregulation of the stock market—the Big Bang—by fortunate coincidence Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Methuen, 1990. prelims |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Winsome Pinnock | The Clean Break
theatre company did a production at the Royal National Theatre
of WP
's play Mules, about Jamaican women enlisted as drug smugglers. “Winsome Pinnock”. Playwrights. |
| 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 | Caryl Churchill | CC
's ecological drama, The Skriker, was produced at the National Theatre (now officially, since 1988, the Royal National Theatre
). This was only its second staging of a play by a living British... |
| Performance of text | Jackie Kay | JK
's short play Take Away, a story (reminiscent of that of the Pied Piper) about a town desperately seeking to get rid of its onions, was performed at the National Theatre
on 29... |
Timeline
19 May 1908
A campaign to establish a National Theatre
began with a mass meeting at the Lyceum Theatre
, London.
9 March 1949
A National Theatre
Act was passed by the British Parliament
, which allowed the Treasury
to contribute towards national theatre costs.
13 July 1951
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 Bank officially opened with a royal gala performance of a comedy by Carlo Goldoni
in its larger auditorium, the Olivier.
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.
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).
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.
Texts
NT2000: 100 Plays of the Century. National Theatre, 1999.
Program: Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby. National Theatre, 1994.