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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 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. |
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... |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre
: a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
, directed by Peter Hall
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 15-17 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Gillian Slovo | The Temporary Theatre at the National Theatre
saw the debut of Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, a verbatim play by GS
, directed by her former co-worker in this genre, Nicholas Kent
. Latif, Nadia, and Omar El-Kairy. “Censorship, blindspots and bomb squads”. The Guardian, pp. G16 - 17. Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com. |
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. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play Betrayal opened at the National Theatre
(on the smaller Lyttelton stage), directed by Peter Hall
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. 109 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | Other Places, an evening of three one-act plays by HP
, opened at the National Theatre
: Family Voices, Victoria Station, and A Kind of Alaska. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 138 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
opened as a Christmas show at the National Theatre
. Horspool, David. “Knockabout on Treasure Island”. Times Literary Supplement. |
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. 415 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | Faber reprinted the BL
play in a slim volume on its own in 2001. Both this and a companion piece, Red Sky (in which modern archaeologists encounter the fragile and beautiful traces of the past)... |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | The National Theatre
produced SD
's feminist play Neaptide on its Cottesloe stage. Printed the same year, the play is about lesbians living with prejudice and concealment. Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 194-11. 207 Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen. 234 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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... |
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... |
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