Borne Back Daily.
3 June 2009
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Employer | Margaret Drabble | She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company
under Peter Hall
, who was setting out... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | A further rewriting, under the original title, by Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele
, met with great success when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company
at Stratford in summer 1999. Joan Anim-Addo
's libretto Imoinda: Or... |
Occupation | Liz Lochhead | LL
's several positions as Writer-in-Residence have included Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
in Dundee (1980), the Tattenhall Centre
, near Chester (1982-84), Edinburgh University
(1985-87), and the Royal Shakespeare Company
in 1988-89, on... |
Performance of text | Margaret Atwood | The day before International Women's Day 2007, the Canadian National Arts Centre / Centre Nationale des Arts
announced that donations from seven individual Canadian women were funding a production of MA
's stage adaptation of... |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | The Royal Shakespeare Company
scored a notable success with HP
's play The Homecoming, written the previous year, directed by Peter Hall
. Borne Back Daily. 3 June 2009 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | Landscape and Silence, a pair of short plays by HP
, were directed for the RSC
by Peter Hall
, having been delayed while Pinter battled the Lord Chamberlain (the British censor) for the... |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | The Royal Shakespeare Company
produced CC
's Softcops, a revue-style drama influenced by Foucault
's Discipline and Punish. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 111-12 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | The Birthday Party and Other Plays was published in 1960, and this play alone in 1965. The Birthday Party was revived in 1964 by the Royal Shakespeare Company
with Pinter himself directing, and again in... |
Performance of text | Anne Devlin | AD
's play After Easter was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company
at Stratford's Other Place
theatre (the company's small, intimate venue). Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997. 94 Devlin, Anne. After Easter. Faber and Faber, 1994. prelims |
Performance of text | Mary Pix | It had first been performed about a month before. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1968. 1: 526 |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | The Royal Shakespeare Company
performed a short play by MW
, Mal de Mere, along with Whose Greenham. Wandor, Michelene. Carry On, Understudies. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. 186 Michelene Wandor. |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | The Royal Shakespeare Company
first performed PG
's play Queen Christina, at their small Stratford theatre named The Other Place
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 161 Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen, 1984. 49 |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | PG
's play Piaf, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company
, opened at The Other Place
in Stratford. Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985. 9 Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen, 1984. 49 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 161 |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | The Royal Shakespeare Company
moved its production to London in August 1989; the play had been published earlier that year. OCLC WorldCat. |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | The Royal Shakespeare Company
included the play in their regional tour, after which it transferred to the Globe Theatre
in London. Harvard University
holds a video-recording of a performance of this play in Hebrew. OCLC WorldCat. |