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Connections

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Textual Production Shena Mackay
SM has written a play, Nurse Macater, for the National Theatre .
Mackay, Shena. Redhill Rococo. Abacus.
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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
The Wandering Jew, a play adapted by MW from Eugène Sue 's long, unwieldy novel Le Juif errant (serialized in French from June 1844 to July 1845), was performed at the National Theatre in London.
Wandor, Michelene, and Mike Alfreds. The Wandering Jew. Methuen.
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Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
In late 2016, after Britain had narrowly voted in favour of Brexit, CAD blended words of her own with those spoken by people nationwide, aged 9 to 97, across the United Kingdom, in interviews with...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
In late November, with perceived parallels to current events keeping The Handmaid's Tale riding high, Atwood announced that in September 2019 she would release a sequel: The Testaments, set in Gilead fifteen years after...
Textual Production Pam Gems
PG 's play Stanley, in which Antony Sher starred as the painter Stanley Spencer , opened at the National Theatre Cottesloe . It was published the same year.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73.
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Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
65483 (23 January 1996): 39
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
This was the first play that WP wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW contributed a play, Arden City, to the National Theatre 's annual festival of theatre for young people, 2008, and the subsequent printed anthology, that year's New Connections.
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
In early 2017 WP was working on a play for the Royal National Theatre Studio , as well as a novel.
“Winsome Pinnock”. Kingston University London.
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
BL 's play Frozen was published in the same month that it reached the stage of the Cottesloe Theatre in London (the smallest auditorium at the Royal National Theatre ).
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
“Bryony Lavery”. doollee.com: Playwrights.
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
It was four years before Trevor Nunn , director of the National Theatre , managed to arrange a move from Birmingham to the Cottesloe Theatre in London for this play, with its original cast.
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
After her American success of Frozen, BL planned an adaptation of Dracula to premiere at Princeton University in June 2004, and Discontented Winter: House Remix as a youth play for the National Theatre in...
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS originally composed Just for the youth theatre season run by the National Theatre (then called the Shell Connections Theatre Festival), an annual series of plays specially composed for performance by young actors.
Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24.
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Textual Production Liz Lochhead
LL has written several plays for children and adolescents. These include Disgusting Objects, a play about schoolgirls' first encounter with sexism written for the Scottish Youth Theatre in 1982, and Shanghaied, a play...
Textual Features Bernardine Evaristo
Among others she includes a Newcastle orphan in 1905 and a feminist squatter in 1980. The dedication reads: For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren / & the women &...
Reception Shelagh Delaney
SD won several awards for the play. In England, she received the Charles Henry Foyle New Play Award in 1958 and an Arts Council Bursary Award in 1959. She also received the New York Drama...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

By 13 May 2007: The director of London's National Theatre,...

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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.