Horspool, David. “Knockabout on Treasure Island”. Times Literary Supplement, 17 Dec. 2014.
National Theatre
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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
. |
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, 2010. 138 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 | 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 |
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... |
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, 2000, pp. 194-11. 207 Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991. 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, 1990. |
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 | 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, 14 Apr. 2016, pp. G16 - 17. Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com, 17 Apr. 2016. |
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