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Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | This play was commissioned by Monstrous Regiment
as a co-production with Birmingham Repertory Company
, but turned out quite differently from what the commission had specified. After Birmingham it showed at the Drill Hall in... |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | It moved to London from Birmingham Repertory Theatre
. |
Textual Production | Sarah Daniels | This play is based on an idea from Teddy Kiendl
. Its next tour stop after opening at Watford was at Birmingham Rep. |
Textual Production | Muriel Jaeger | Production was arranged at Birmingham Repertory Theatre
under Sir Barry Jackson
, when the Lord Chamberlain's office banned the play. The Foreign Office
, MJ
learned, thought it most undesirable that anything humorous should be... |
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... |
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 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. Page, Louise. “Tissue”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 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 | 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, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 490 |
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. 222 Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 4: 109n3, 148 |
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, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 490 |
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. 928 |
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, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 490 |
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. 14: 756 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 63: 440 |
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. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 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. 94 Bill, Stephen et al. Heartlanders. Nick Hern Books. prelims |
Timeline
15 February 1913: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre opened with...
Building item
15 February 1913
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