National Theatre

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...

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...

Daily Telegraph referred to this play as the cleverest murder mystery of the British theatre, while the Observer identified it as a classic. In June 1999 the set used in the original production...

Ethel Smyth sent her responses to this book by telegram on publication day: Book astounding so far. Agitatingly increases value of life. Two days later she sent: Final paragraph almost smashes machine of life with...

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...

This was the first play by a living woman ever to be given at the National Theatre . Its first draft won the George Devine Award.Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times...

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...

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...

The plays, written for young actors, had all been workshopped at a residential weekend for members of various theatre companies somewhere in the Midlands (the workshop on Taking Breath being led by director Gemma Bodinetz

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...

In summer 2005 SD contributed another play to a National Theatre Connections season for young people: Dust, which takes up the topic of bullying.

In 1978 the National Theatre staged an adaptation of Lark Rise written by Keith Dewhurst . After Dewhurst's sequel, Candleford Green, opened in 1979, successive performances of both plays in a single day became...

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 .

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.

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