Royal Shakespeare Company

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Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales , Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera...
Textual Production Pam Gems
PG 's next two plays, both about historic periods of violent revolutionary struggle, were not well received. La Pasionara, produced at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1985, was based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri
Textual Production Louise Page
In 1992 an educational grant from the Royal Shakespeare Company funded LP 's adaptation, for children, of Antigone by Sophocles , entitled Royal Blood Bath 3.
Eisen, Kurt. “Louise Page”. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Source Book, edited by William W. Demastes, Greenwood Press, pp. 291-00.
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Reception Michelene Wandor
Time Out discerned in this sequence an astonishing density of feeling.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Marsha Rowe wrote that in To Die Among FriendsMW had cut the past in slices and re-arranged it as a layer cake, pretty...
Reception Aphra Behn
The late twentieth century saw a number of performances of plays by Behn. The Rover's many productions seem to have begun with the one at Colchester in Essex in 1978.
Brophy, Brigid. Baroque-’n’-Roll. Hamish Hamilton.
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Its great success...
Publishing Louise Page
During the same year, 1986, a commission for LP from the Royal Shakespeare Company resulted in an anti-war play called Hawks and Doves. Ten years after the commission the play had not been produced...
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.
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Devlin, Anne. After Easter. Faber and Faber.
prelims
Performance of text Mary Pix
It had first been performed about a month before.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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An adapted Royal Shakespeare Company version under the title of The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich opened in March 2018 at Stratford, UK.
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.
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Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
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.
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Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen.
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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.
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Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen.
49
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Performance of text Jackie Kay
She and Jo Shapcott read their poems (together with rising starsJay Bernard and Kayo Chingonyi ) at the Royal Shakespeare Company 's redesigned Swan Theatre at Stratford on 3 December 2010.
Uncertainty is Not a Good Dog.
The same month...
Performance of text Deborah Levy
DL 's Heresies opened at the Barbican Theatre (The Pit) in London in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company .
“Deborah Levy”. doollee.com The Playwrights Database.
Levy

Timeline

2 May 1594: The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare,...

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2 May 1594

The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare , was entered in the Stationers' Register.

December 1821: Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery;...

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December 1821

Byron published his verse dramaCain: A Mystery; the title-page said 1822.

December 1958: Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company,...

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December 1958

Plans were laid for a Royal Shakespeare Company , to perform both at Stratford and in London.

1960: The Royal Shakespeare Company was established...

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1960

The Royal Shakespeare Company was established under director Peter Hall : it began with a spring and summer season in Stratford upon Avon, then a winter season at the Aldwych Theatre , London.

9 December 1960: A letter from the Joint Council of the National...

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9 December 1960

A letter from the Joint Council of the National Theatre to the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed that the National Theatre Company should expand to swallow up the just-founded Royal Shakespeare Company .

October 1973: Peter Hall left the Royal Shakespeare Company...

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October 1973

Peter Hall left the Royal Shakespeare Company to assume directorship of the National Theatre Company (offered him the previous year), in succession to Sir Laurence Olivier .

24 November 2010: The redesigned Royal Shakespeare Theatre...

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24 November 2010

The redesigned Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford upon Avon opened to the public with exhibitions, events, and tours. Theatrical productions were to follow in February 2011.
Royal Shakespeare Company,. Email to Friends of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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