Its generic peculiarities were reflected in its reception. Scotland Times reviewer Robert Dawson Scott
asserted that its manner of toying with the tenets of theatre made Pirandello
and Ionesco
look like straight up-and-down naturalists, avoiding...
Occupation
Ngaio Marsh
She pursued this career in London as well. In a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts on 12 December 1950 NM
, who at this time was getting lots of offers for producing, directing...
Textual Features
Ann Jellicoe
The Sport of My Mad Mother is an experimental play that foregrounds rhythm, sound, and image rather than plot. AJ
was inspired to write it after seeing an acting student improvise a dream in which...
Textual Production
Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW
has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca
's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...
Timeline
14 July 1930: The first televised play was broadcast by...
Building item
14 July 1930
The first televised play was broadcast by the BBC
: Lance Sieveking
and Sydney Moseley
's production of Pirandello
's experimental The Man with the Flower in his Mouth.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
