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...
Performance of text
May Edginton
These two worked together again on a play entitled Secrets. ME
's Times obituary says that this was produced in 1922 at the Comedy Theatre
, where it ran for 373 performances starring Fay Compton
Performance of text
Githa Sowerby
GS
's play Sheila, a realist treatment of a boss-typist romance, opened at St James's Theatre
in London, with Fay Compton
playing the lead.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
959
Production file for Githa Sowerby. 1994.
Performance of text
Kate O'Brien
She finished writing it in September 1942, with the war at its height, deep in the English countryside at Croyle House near Cullompton in Devon. A stage adaptation by KOB
and John Perry
opened...
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
In 1934, Autumn Crocus was made into...
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
Fay Compton
and Owen Nares
played the leading roles, and Smith's friend Phyllis Morris
first made her mark as a character actress.
Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942.
202
Wynne-Tyson, Jon. Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell, 2004.
84
A few months later, in January 1936, another production opened at...
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Texts
Compton, Fay. Rosemary: Some Remembrances. Alston Rivers, 1926.