“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Sphinx Theatre Company
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Pam Gems | In London in the 1970s, PG
became involved in several women's theatre collectives. With the Women's Theatre Group
she helped to organize a season of plays by women staged at the Almost Free Theatre
... |
Occupation | Bryony Lavery | Another group she founded was the four-woman Female Trouble
of 1981-2, for the performance of unscripted reviews. She has written and acted for many other groups, including Monstrous Regiment
, Dramatrix
, Theatre Centre
(founded... |
Performance of text | Elaine Feinstein | EF
's best-known play, the feminist piece Lear's Daughters, written in collaboration with the Women's Theatre Group
, a prequel revisioning Shakespeare
's story, was staged in London. |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's New Anatomies, produced by the Women's Theatre Group
, re-opened in London after appearing at the EdinburghFestival
. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 408 |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | It premiered in London on 1 December 1998 at the Tricycle Theatre
, where it was produced by the Sphinx Theatre Company
, the later name of the Women's Theatre Group
, with whom PG |
Performance of text | Bryony Lavery | BL
's multiply parodic play Her Aching Heart (written for the Women's Theatre Group
) had its first performance at the Oval House
, London. Lavery, Bryony. Plays, 1. Methuen Drama, 1998. 86 |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | At least four plays by TW
staged this year included Breaking Through (performed by the Women's Theatre Group
, for whom she began writing this year) and her comedy Case to Answer. Hawkins-Dady, Mark et al., editors. International Dictionary of Theatre. St James Press, 1992–1996, 3 vols. 2: 1033 |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | BL
's The Wild Bunch was staged in London by the Women's Theatre Group
, for whom she had written it. “Bryony Lavery”. doollee.com: Playwrights. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. |
Textual Production | Bryony Lavery | BL
's Witchcraze, written originally for the Women's Theatre Group
, has three characters (theatre cleaners) who don masks and, between them, assume nineteen historical roles of women accused of witchcraft. 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. |
Timeline
About October 1973: The Women's Theatre Group (still in being...
Women writers item
About October 1973
The Women's Theatre Group
(still in being as the Sphinx Theatre Company
) was founded in London as a feminist and socialist theatre group; its twin organization the Women's Theatre Company
proved short-lived.
de Angelis, April. “Riddle of the Sphinx”. Guardian Unlimited, 10 Sept. 2005.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books, 1991.
xx
“The Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill - 197”. Sphinx Theatre Company Archive: Productions. 1970s.
1978: Melissa Murray's play Belisha Beacon was...
Women writers item
1978
Melissa Murray
's play Belisha Beacon was produced and performed by the Pirate Jenny
theatre group, in the same year as two more plays by her, one solo and one collaborative.
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.
September-November 2005: An exhibition at the National Theatre in...
Writing climate item
September-November 2005
An exhibition at the National Theatre
in London, Flogging the Jewels, celebrated thirty years of the company now called Sphinx
(formerly the Women's Theatre Group).
de Angelis, April. “Riddle of the Sphinx”. Guardian Unlimited, 10 Sept. 2005.
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