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Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Glover | Though not known to the eminent residents of the nearby square, EG
enjoyed a cordial acquaintance with many of their cooks and butlers, based on a shared love of cats. She mentions some theatrical friends:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Charlton | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that Thomas Dibdin
used a translation from La Fontaine by MC
as the basis of a comedy, Guilty or Not Guilty, which opened at the Haymarket
in... |
Occupation | Mary Cowden Clarke | A production of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Charles Dickens
's Amateur Company
opened at the Haymarket Theatre
, with MCC
as Mistress Quickly, wearing Elizabethan costume she had made herself. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 136-7 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
, as Mrs William Gooch, acted during the off-season at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 6: 249 |
Performance of text | Dodie Smith | DS
's critically acclaimed play Touch Wood—the first to be produced under her real name—opened at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge. 218 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 89, 92 |
Performance of text | Catherine Crowe | A later romantic drama in five acts by CC
, The Cruel Kindness (dating from 1853), was performed at the Haymarket Theatre
in London. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's first comedy, The School for Coquettes, opened a long run (thirty-seven performances) at the recently opened Haymarket Theatre
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 3 Athenæum. J. Lection. 194 (1831): 460 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's new play, The Queen's Champion, opened as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
: it was translated from a French vaudeville entertainment. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 7 Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland. 158 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's The Maid of Croissey; or, Theresa's Vow, a village melodrama adapted from French, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 13-14 |
Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
's prize-winning final play, Quid Pro Quo; or, The Day of Dupes, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-74. 57 Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 26 |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | In spring 2018 Frozen was revived at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
. Billington, Michael. “A Criminal Coldness”. Country Life, pp. 94-5. 94 |
Performance of text | George Paston | The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton
's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan
on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League
and the Women Writers' Suffrage League |
Performance of text | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
's stage adaptation of her earlier novel Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (1905) premiered at the Haymarket Theatre
as Priscilla Runs Away. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 115, 145, 152 |
Performance of text | George Paston | GP
also translated a German one-act play by Ludwig Huna
, The Kiss, first performed at the Haymarket Theatre
on 24 November 1910, and a full-length Russian play by Nikolai Evreinov
and Fernand Nozière |
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