Play Actors

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Textual Production Elizabeth Baker
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...
Literary responses Elizabeth Baker
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...
Performance of text Inez Bensusan
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.
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press.
46
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
508
Performance of text George Paston
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 .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
875
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
167
Performance of text George Paston
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
Performance of text Githa Sowerby
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).
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
959
Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North.
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Textual Production Githa Sowerby
The Play Actors were a London society whose mandate was to encourage new authors, many of them from outside London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
272
The play was never taken on by a regular theatre company, or published until...

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