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Reception Agatha Christie
Daily Telegraph referred to this play as the cleverest murder mystery of the British theatre, while the Observer identified it as a classic.
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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In June 1999 the set used in the original production...
Reception Timberlake Wertenbaker
This play won awards in London (Olivier Award and Evening Standard award, 1988) and New York (Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play, 1991). National Theatre audiences voted it one of the Hundred Plays...
Reception Michelene Wandor
While she admired the daring of the inital production by Mrs Worthington's Daughters , MW found the National Theatre production, staged simply with the actors in modern dress, to be one of the most rewarding...
Reception Sarah Daniels
Masterpieces brought SD two awards for most promising playwright: one from Drama and another from Plays and Players: the London Theatre Critics Award, which she shared. Audiences at the National Theatre later voted this...
Reception Sarah Daniels
This was the first play by a living woman ever to be given at the National Theatre .
Yousaf, Nahem et al., editors. “Introduction”. Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker, University of South Carolina Press, 2005, p. vii - xxiii.
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Its first draft won the George Devine Award.
Remnant, Mary, editor. “Introduction”. Plays by Women: Volume 6, Methuen, 1987, pp. 7-12.
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Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times...
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...
Publishing Michelene Wandor
BBC Radio rejected the play when MW submitted it to them in 1977, but decided to broadcast it in 1981 after a producer saw the stage production. The National Theatre likewise initially rejected it, but...
politics Harold Pinter
Pinter voted Tory in May 1979 (when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister) in reaction against trade union intransigence (which had threatened a play he was directing at the National Theatre ), and SDP in June...
Performance of text Harold Pinter
HP performed in his own short dramatic satire Press Conference at the National Theatre .
Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, 2007.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 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 Caryl Churchill
CC 's A Dream Play, translated from a play by Strindberg dating from 1901, was published, close to its opening night at the National Theatre in London.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's short play Here We Go, a striking memento mori for an age without faith, opened at the National Theatre ; it was published nexg day.
Billington, Michael. “Here We Go review’Caryl Churchill’s chilling reminder of our mortality”. theguardian.com, 29 Nov. 2015.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Performance of text Iris Murdoch
One of IM 's two Plato nic dialogues, Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art, was given as a platform performance at the National Theatre .
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Its London run at the Royal Court Theatre began three weeks later.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.

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