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 .
Horspool, David. “Knockabout on Treasure Island”. Times Literary Supplement, 17 Dec. 2014.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.
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.
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Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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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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