Play Actors

Despite its short run, the play was a critical success. The Times heartily congratulated the Play Actors on their choice of play, saying that [o]ne such play as this a year would justify the existence...

IB 's first play, a one-act suffrage drama entitled The Apple, had one matinee performance by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre in London.

The Play Actors society produced GS 's play The Stepmother at London's New Theatre in a single Sunday performance (other theatres being then closed).

GP 's Tilda's New Hat, a one-act comedy about love and fashion, was first performed by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre .

GP wrote several other one-act plays which were performed in London and further afield. These include Colleagues (performed at the Empire Theatre in Kilburn on 30 January 1911) and A Great Experiment (at the Lyceum Theatre

EB wrote this and her later plays while in full-time employment. It and the other Court Theatre productions were put on by the Play Actors society. Chains was revived in 1910 by Dion Boucicault at...

The Play Actors were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London. The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...