Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin.
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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 |
Performance of text | Molly Keane | She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins
the same year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | Josephine Tey | The other volumes of the set appeared in 1954. Her plays were a special focus of her concern for posthumous publication: her will instructed her agent to pay for their printing out of her estate... |
Textual Production | Edith Craig | EC
's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 233 |
Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | It was an inauspicious time for an opening, because of gathering war-clouds. Anne Ridler
later wrote, it was a great pity that Eliot had refused to offer the part [of Harry, the pivotal character] to... |
Textual Production | Josephine Tey | Peter Davies
posthumously published the first of a three-volume collection of Plays by Gordon Daviot (also known as JT
), with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud
(though without any overview of Daviot's career to... |
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 |
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