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Bryony Lavery
Standard Name: Lavery, Bryony
Birth Name: Bryony Lavery
In a career spanning nearly forty years of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, the highly prolific London. She has also written translations, adaptations, and essays. Much of her impressive output remains unpublished. She was one of the driving forces in the feminist and socialist theatre groups of the 1970s (no other playwright had so long and fruitful a relationship with
), and she remained a committed experimenter and iconoclast, often defying stage convention and any hint of naturalism. Her plots often tend toward the hilariously improbable, and her endings toward happiness and reconciliation. More recently, her handling of social problems and personal tragedies has become bleaker and starker. These darker plays have brought her greater success than her former light-hearted ones.
has seen over sixty of her plays and other entertainments staged, mostly in Timeline
Texts
Lavery, Bryony. A Wedding Story. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Lavery, Bryony. Frozen. Faber and Faber, 2002.
Lavery, Bryony. “More Light”. New Connections, edited by Nick Drake, Faber and Faber, 1997.
Lavery, Bryony. More Light. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Lavery, Bryony. Plays, 1. Methuen Drama, 1998.
Lavery, Bryony, and Mary Webb. Precious Bane. Oberon Books, 2003.
Lavery, Bryony. Tallulah Bankhead. Absolute Press, 1999.
Lavery, Bryony. “The Wild Bunch”. The Wild Bunch, and Other Plays, edited by Don Shiach, Nelson, 1990.
Lavery, Bryony. “Witchcraze”. Herstory, edited by Gabriele Griffin et al., Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.
Lavery, Bryony. “Writing with Actors”. The Women Writers’s Handbook, edited by Cheryl Robson et al., Aurora Metro Publications, 1990, pp. 48-50.