Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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Education Hélène Barcynska
HB 's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry , and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton , who offered to pay her...
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
HB claims that she wrote her first poem, without help, at seven. It began: A little angel walked this earth. From then on she was always scribbling.
Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett.
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At about nine she had an...
Material Conditions of Writing Hélène Barcynska
When acting appeared to be going nowhere, Marguerite Jervis wrote an article entitled A Day at the Academy of Dramatic Art, which she submitted in person (wearing a white muslin frock with blue sash...
Education Muriel Box
At Surbiton she disliked the educational regime of the headmistress, Miss Proctor, more than any she had known. She could bear the English literature, foreign languages, and religious instruction (which, as before, she converted into...
Material Conditions of Writing Muriel Box
MB 's first dramatic writing was for a group in the amateur theatre movement with which much of her career was linked: the Welwyn Folk Players . She directed for them, and wrote a three-act...
Education Frances Horovitz
She went on immediately from Bristol to begin studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , where, between 1959 and 1961, she played the leading roles in many student productions.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text Ann Jellicoe
AJ wrote the play at the request of Bill Gaskill , the Court's new manager. She was dissatisfied with her own direction of this production, and preferred the student production she directed at RADA ...
Education Hope Mirrlees
HM then briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ; however, she soon abandoned her theatrical aspirations for the study of classics.
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press.
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Education Harold Pinter
HP decided on an acting career, and studied at the RADA (which he hated) and the Central School of Speech and Drama (which he enjoyed).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Ann Quin
There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA (the Royal Academy of...
Education Jean Rhys
Ella Williams (later JR ) entered Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 's School (later renamed the Academy of Dramatic Art ) in London to study acting.
Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch.
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Savory, Elaine. Jean Rhys. Cambridge University Press.
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Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown.
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Education Dodie Smith
DS studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art (later RADA) in London.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
26
Textual Production Dodie Smith
As a child DS wrote her own plays. While she was studying at what would become the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , she wrote a screenplay, Schoolgirl Rebels, under the pseudonym Charles Henry Percy
Education G. B. Stern
GBS started school at seven. During her first term she fell into disgrace for running up a large bill for pencils, erasers, etc., from a stationers' shop where her parents had an account: she had...
Education Noel Streatfeild
After a spell earning her own living, NS enrolled at the LondonAcademy of Dramatic Art (later RADA).
Jordan, Harriet. “Noel Streatfeild”. White Gauntlet Design.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Timeline

1904: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the...

Building item

1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the writers Viola and Iris Tree ) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

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