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Sir John Gielgud
Standard Name: Gielgud, Sir John
Connections
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Performance of text | Molly Keane | She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins
the same year. |
Performance of text | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy co-wrote this play with producer Basil Dean
. Opening night in London was a smashing success and a production in New York followed shortly afterwards, to similar acclaim. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 81 |
Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | Following its success on Broadway, EB
's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
, directed by John Gielgud
and starring Peggy Ashcroft
and Edith Evans
. Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin. 160-2 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 192 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre
: a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
, directed by Peter Hall
. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 15-17 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | After touring the provinces, EB
's play The Last Joke opened at the Phoenix Theatre
in London, starring John Gielgud
and Ralph Richardson
. Bagnold, Enid. Four Plays. Little, Brown. 85 |
Performance of text | Josephine Tey | Gordon Daviot
's first and most successful play, Richard of Bordeaux, starring John Gielgud
and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
, re-opened at London's New Theatre
, where it ran for fourteen months. Tey, Josephine. Richard of Bordeaux. Little, Brown. prelims Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne. 14 Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan. 92 |
Performance of text | Josephine Tey | Gordon Daviot
's Queen of Scots, directed by Sir John Gielgud
and starring Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
and a young Laurence Olivier
, opened at the New Theatre
in London. Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, p. ix - xii. ix Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 139 Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne. 23 |
Publishing | Josephine Tey | The play grew out of an argument with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
(Daviot's friend since they met on the set of Richard of Bordeaux) about Mary Stuart
's character. (At that time Daviot sided with Elizabeth of England |
Publishing | Josephine Tey | Daviot wrote this play in 1936, and sent the script to John Gielgud
, who liked [it] very much except for the last act, but this she was not willing to change. Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, p. ix - xii. ix |
Textual Features | Pam Gems | The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell
regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw
, but her life and career are also... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams
(its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis
. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan. 429 |
Textual Production | Josephine Tey | JT
wrote several plays under the name Gordon Daviot. Her first, Richard of Bordeaux, was by far her greatest critical success. Its immediate successors had much shorter runs, and most of her later... |
Textual Production | Josephine Tey | The West End production was a major success for everyone involved. The first two nights were slow, but the first matinee saw an unexpected rush on seats, and the show became a smash hit.... |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | |
Textual Production | Josephine Tey | This play was considerably less successful than Richard of Bordeaux, and ran for only a few weeks. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 141 |
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