National Theatre

Connections

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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.
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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...
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...
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...
Reception Agatha Christie
Daily Telegraph referred to this play as the cleverest murder mystery of the British theatre, while the Observer identified it as a classic.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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In June 1999 the set used in the original production...
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 Sarah Daniels
Masterpieces brought SD two awards for most promising playwright: one from Drama and another from Plays and Players: the London Theatre Critics Award, which she shared. Audiences at the National Theatre later voted this...
Reception Sarah Daniels
This was the first play by a living woman ever to be given at the National Theatre .
Yousaf, Nahem et al., editors. “Introduction”. Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker, University of South Carolina Press, p. vii - xxiii.
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Its first draft won the George Devine Award.
Remnant, Mary, editor. “Introduction”. Plays by Women: Volume 6, Methuen, pp. 7-12.
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Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times...
Reception Shelagh Delaney
SD won several awards for the play. In England, she received the Charles Henry Foyle New Play Award in 1958 and an Arts Council Bursary Award in 1959. She also received the New York Drama...
Textual Features Bernardine Evaristo
Among others she includes a Newcastle orphan in 1905 and a feminist squatter in 1980. The dedication reads: For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren / & the women &...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
In late November, with perceived parallels to current events keeping The Handmaid's Tale riding high, Atwood announced that in September 2019 she would release a sequel: The Testaments, set in Gilead fifteen years after...
Textual Production Pam Gems
PG 's play Stanley, in which Antony Sher starred as the painter Stanley Spencer , opened at the National Theatre Cottesloe . It was published the same year.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73.
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Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
This was the first play that WP wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the...
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.

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