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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. 13 |
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. xv Remnant, Mary, editor. “Introduction”. Plays by Women: Volume 6, Methuen, 1987, pp. 7-12. 9 |
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. 415 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. 548 |
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. 109 |
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