Royal Court Theatre

Connections

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Education Winsome Pinnock
At about fourteen WP discovered live theatre in the form of a school trip.
“The Play Ground, ’Reaching out for life in a new country’: Winsome Pinnock on her play Leave Taking”. Nick Hern Books, 23 May 2018.
At sixteen, she says, she was a real stage-struck teenager, sitting on the steps [of the Royal Court Theatre ] in...
Education Louise Page
LP took a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University in 1976 (the year her first play received a reading at the Royal Court Theatre ). She followed it with a post-graduate degree...
Employer Winsome Pinnock
In her late teens WP planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as...
Employer Sarah Daniels
SD became an associate writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Employer Louise Page
In 1979 LP had a post at the University of Sheffield as Yorkshire Television 's Fellow in Drama and Television. She was also employed to teach at the University of Birmingham . In 1982-3 she...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Jellicoe
Between her first and her second marriage, AJ had a failed relationship with Keith Johnstone , a fellow Royal Court writer.
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Jellicoe
AJ was married for the second time, to Roger Mayne , a photographer she met at the Royal Court Theatre .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Fictionalization T. S. Eliot
During TSE 's last years he reaped a rich harvest of public honours, both in Britain and internationally. Since then his standing as leading poet of the modernist movement and dominant figure of twentieth-century English...
Friends, Associates Maureen Duffy
At this time she was friendly with a group of writers connected with the Royal Court Theatre , and also with authors J. G. Farrell and Heathcote Williams , and with publisher Graham Nicol ...
Material Conditions of Writing Ann Jellicoe
The site was chosen as a compromise when several Axminster venues proved unwelcoming for political reasons having to do with relations among the area's various schools and with resistance from the Axminster Dramatic Society ...
Occupation Caryl Churchill
CC was resident dramatist and tutor for the Young Writers' Group at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She was the first woman to hold this position.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
107
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
103
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Occupation Ann Jellicoe
AJ had a long-standing professional relationship with the Royal Court Theatre . Around the time her play The Sport of My Mad Mother was performed at the Court, she became involved in the newly formed...
Occupation Lady Cynthia Asquith
During the war LCA received the last of three successive offers of significant acting roles, despite her total lack of dramatic training. Towards Christmas 1909 she had taken part in a charity production at the...
Occupation Sarah Kane
As a student, SK wanted to be an actor, then a theatre director. Apart from the productions already mentioned at school and at Bristol University, she directed student productions of Chekhov's The Bear (at Soho Poly
Occupation Ann Jellicoe
AJ began her tenure as the Royal Court Theatre 's literary manager, a job that involved selecting plays for production: the two years during which she held this post helped launch the careers of several...

Timeline

1871: The New Chelsea Theatre (opened the previous...

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1871

The New Chelsea Theatre (opened the previous year) became known as the Royal Court Theatre .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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24 September 1888: The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the...

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24 September 1888

The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the Court Theatre) moved to a new site.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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24 September 1888: The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the...

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24 September 1888

The Royal Court Theatre (at this date the Court Theatre) moved to a new site.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
151-2

8 May 1956: John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger opened...

Writing climate item

8 May 1956

John Osborne 's play Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London; within a few weeks, on 28 May, Colin Wilson published The Outsider, a romanticizing study of the...

10 April 1957: Playwright John Osborne's The Entertainer...

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10 April 1957

Playwright John Osborne 's The Entertainer was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, with Laurence Olivier playing the lead.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
413

19 August 1977: The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley...

Women writers item

19 August 1977

The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley opened at the Royal Court Theatre ; it transferred to the West End later this year and won a string of awards.
Wandor, Michelene. Understudies. Methuen, 1981.
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1980: Andrea Dunbar published The Arbor: A Play,...

Women writers item

1980

Andrea Dunbar published The Arbor: A Play, which had a moderately successful run at the Royal Court Theatre .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1982: The Royal Court Theatre commissioned Rita,...

Women writers item

1982

The Royal Court Theatre commissioned Rita, Sue and Bob Too from Andrea Dunbar .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1984: The Royal Court Theatre performed Elisabeth...

Women writers item

1984

The Royal Court Theatre performed Elisabeth Bond 's play Minor Complications influenced by visits to India and her family's connection with the British Raj. The same year her Sideways Down was produced at Riverside Studios

1986: Jacqueline Rudet's dramatic work Money to...

Women writers item

1986

Jacqueline Rudet 's dramatic work Money to Live and an associated afterword were included in Plays By Women, edited by Mary Remnant .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1988: Andrea Dunbar's Shirley, which was produced...

Women writers item

1988

Andrea Dunbar 's Shirley, which was produced by the Royal Court Theatre in 1986, was first published in a volume with the republished plays Rita, Sue and Bob Too and The Arbor.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

February 2000: The Royal Court Theatre re-opened after having...

Building item

February 2000

The Royal Court Theatre re-opened after having shut down for rebuilding in 1997.
“About. Outline/History”. Royal Court.

11 July 2009: Enron, only the second play by Lucy Prebble...

Women writers item

11 July 2009

Enron, only the second play by Lucy Prebble to reach the stage, opened at ChichesterFestival Theatre , dramatising the spectacular crash of the US energy giant Enron .
“What’s On”. Chichester Festival Theatre, 2009.

Texts

Hastings, Michael. Tom and Viv. Royal Court Theatre, 1984.