HW
's play The Abbé Prévost had its first outing on stage, by the Croydon Repertory Company
, followed by a Sunday staging at the Arts Theatre Club
in London. It was only a moderate success.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
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Performance of text
Josephine Tey
Richard of Bordeaux (that is Richard II
), the first play by Gordon Daviot
(well-known alternative pseudonym for detective novelist JT
), had two special Sunday night performances at the Arts Theatre Club
in London.
Tey, Josephine. Richard of Bordeaux. Little, Brown, 1934.
prelims
Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, 1953–1954, p. ix - xii.
ix
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 139
Performance of text
Kate O'Brien
KOB
followed her first play (the previous year) with a second, The Bridge, opening this time at the Arts Theatre Club
.
Contemporary Authors online gives the date of the first performance as 31...
Textual Production
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
She later collaborated with the actor Laurie Lister
on When the Bough Breaks, which had a try-out at the Arts Theatre Club
, and The Tree, which was given at the little Portfolio Theatre
.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.