Churchill, Caryl, and David Lan. A Mouthful of Birds. Methuen and Joint Stock Theatre Group, 1986.
prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | A Mouthful of Birds, a play about possession, ecstasy, and violence, co-written by CC
and David Lan
, opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Churchill, Caryl, and David Lan. A Mouthful of Birds. Methuen and Joint Stock Theatre Group, 1986. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 112 |
Performance of text | Anne Devlin | Heartlanders, a community play collaboratively written by AD
, Stephen Bill
, and David Edgar
, opened at the BirminghamRepertory Theatre
for the city's centenary. Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997. 94 Bill, Stephen et al. Heartlanders. Nick Hern Books, 1989. prelims |
Performance of text | Fay Weldon | FW
's Action Replay, a play focusing on sexual incompatibility and warfare, was first performed at the Birmingham Repertory Studio Theatre. Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 14: 756 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 63: 440 |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's translation/adaptation The Dream of a Spring Morning, from Gabriele D'Annunzio
's Sogno d'una mattina di primavera, was first performed at Birmingham's Repertory Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 928 |
Performance of text | Vita Sackville-West | She began to work on it in June 1929 (starting the first chapter in the railway restaurant at Cologne) and finished it the next March. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974. 222 Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 4: 109n3, 148 |
Performance of text | Louise Page | Members of Birmingham Repertory Theatre
put on at Studio Theatre of the Belgrade
in CoventryLP
's third-produced play, Tissue, which explores the way women saw their bodies qtd. in 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, 1990. Page, Louise. “Tissue”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1982, pp. 75-103. 76 |
Performance of text | Louise Page | LP
followed this with a series of plays which did not achieve publication. Lucy, on the subject of euthanasia, was given at Bristol New Vic Studio
in 1979; Hearing was performed the same year... |
Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | CH
's satirical war drama The Old Adam opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
, under the title The Human Factor. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996. 192 |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's two-woman play Origin of the Species played at Birmingham Repertory Company
Studio, Birmingham; it was printed in Plays by Women: Volume Six, 1987, then in Lavery's Plays, 1, 1998. Lavery, Bryony. Plays, 1. Methuen Drama, 1998. 2 |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's magic-realist drama Nothing Compares to You was given a studio performance by Birmingham Rep
. Lavery, Bryony. Plays, 1. Methuen Drama, 1998. 144 “Bryony Lavery”. doollee.com: Playwrights. |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's play Frozen was first staged, four years before its London debut, by Birmingham Rep
, with Anita Dobson
, Josie Lawrence
, and Tom Georgeson
; this gruelling drama marks a departure from Lavery's concentration hitherto on comedy. Barnes, Anthony. “She’s British and the Toast of Broadway. Can you name her?”. The Independent, 6 June 2004. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Baker | EB
's four-act comedy Over a Garden Wall was first performed at BirminghamRepertory Theatre
. Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 490 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Baker | Miss Robinson, a play by EB
about a politician's secretary, opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
. Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 490 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Baker | EB
's comedy Bert's Girl opened at BirminghamRepertory Theatre
. Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 490 |
Author summary | Elizabeth Baker | Elizabeth Baker
's drama often deals with feminist and economic issues facing struggling middle-class families. Her casts of characters include feisty, independent young women seeking emancipation and sympathetic men burdened with supporting a family on... |
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