National Theatre

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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 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
A revival which opened at the National Theatre in April 2015 was timed to coincide with the British general election.
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 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
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
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.
415
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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 plays, written for young actors, had all been workshopped at a residential weekend for members of various theatre companies somewhere in the Midlands (the workshop on Taking Breath being led by director Gemma Bodinetz
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 Sarah Daniels
In summer 2005 SD contributed another play to a National Theatre Connections season for young people: Dust, which takes up the topic of bullying.
Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan.
84
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.
548
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...

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