Wandor, Michelene, and Mike Alfreds. The Wandering Jew. Methuen.
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National Theatre
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Performance of text | Flora Thompson | 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... |
| Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | 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... |
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | AS
originally composed Just for the youth theatre season run by the National Theatre
(then called the Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24. ix-x |
| 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. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | The legacy of Frankenstein is immense and widely diffused. It has been successfully filmed not once but several times, as simple horror movie and as intellectualised retelling with a gruesome birth scene only marginally connected... |
| 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/. |
| Employer | Harold Pinter | As well as writing (in many other genres as well as for the theatre) Pinter also directed regularly: for instance, The Man in the Glass Booth by Robert Shaw
, 1967, Otherwise Engaged by his... |
| 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
'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/. |
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
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.