Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985.
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Edith Piaf
Standard Name: Piaf, Edith
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Pam Gems | PG
's play Piaf, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company
, opened at The Other Place
in Stratford. Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen, 1984. 49 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 161 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pam Gems | It is one of several plays in which PGcuts her heroines free of the romantic context in which they have been enclosed and returns them to the rough realities of common life. Worth, Katharine. “Images of Women in Modern English Theater”. Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights, edited by Enoch Brater, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3 - 24. 6 |
Timeline
By July 1955
Françoise Sagan
, aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novelBonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash
.
11 October 1963
French singer Edith Piaf
died, physically burned out at the age of forty-seven. Her friend the writer and artist Jean Cocteau
died later the same day, after beginning to write an obituary for her.