Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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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 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Occupation | Edith Lyttelton | EL
served on boards of several theatres, including the Vic-Wells
, the National Theatre
, and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
at Stratford upon Avon. She was particularly devoted to the National Theatre cause and... |
Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | The Chalk Garden remains EB
's best-known work. While it has had frequent revivals by amateur and professional companies, Bagnold was disappointed that the National Theatre
never expressed interest in reviving it, an omission she... |
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