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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
performed in his own short dramatic satire Press Conference at the National Theatre
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 13 |
| 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 | 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, 2005, p. vii - xxiii. xv Remnant, Mary, editor. “Introduction”. Plays by Women: Volume 6, Methuen, 1987, pp. 7-12. 9 |
| 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 | Bryony Lavery | After her American success of Frozen, BL
planned an adaptation of Dracula to premiere at Princeton University
in June 2004, and Discontented Winter: House Remix as a youth play for the National Theatre
in... |
| 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 | Liz Lochhead | LL
has written several plays for children and adolescents. These include Disgusting Objects, a play about schoolgirls' first encounter with sexism written for the Scottish Youth Theatre
in 1982, and Shanghaied, a play... |
| 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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