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Literary responses | Dodie Smith | The play was a critical success—the Times, the News Chronicle, and the Telegraph all thought it Smith's best to date, and DS
agreed with them. Noël Coward
wrote to her and her producer,... |
Literary responses | Dodie Smith | DS
recalled that the play opened on Easter Monday, and the gallery, full of rowdy playgoers, laughed in the wrong places, invited Fay Compton
[playing the lead] to speak up and made itself generally unpleasant... |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | Autumn Crocus launched what theatre critic Ernest Short
called [a] Dodie Smith boom; in only six years, DS
had collected earnings of £60,000 from her plays. Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942. 202 |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | Producer Basil Dean
came up with the idea, and Dane wrote the script. Dean, Basil. The Theatre at War. George G. Harrap, 1956. 294ff |
Textual Production | 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, 1983. 81 |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | In the years between the 1926 staging of The Constant Nymph and the appearance of Escape Me Never!, MK
co-wrote with Basil Dean
the play Come With Me (1934), and adapted Charles Dickens
's... |