Royal Court Theatre

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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.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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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...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's critically acclaimed feminist drama Top Girls premièred at the Royal Court Theatre .
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Revised, Post-Production Edition, Methuen, 1984.
prelims
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
In 2003 CC 's ten-minute play Iraqdoc was given at the Royal Court .
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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“Caryl Churchill”. doollee.com: Playwrights.
Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's play The Grace of Mary Traverse opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text George Paston
GP 's Tilda's New Hat, a one-act comedy about love and fashion, was first performed by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's widely successful verse drama about the London financial world, Serious Money, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Revised and Re-issued Edition in the Methuen Modern Play Series, Methuen, 1990.
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Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Our Country's Good opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text Louise Page
Want-Ad, about LP 's eighth play to be written, was the first to be heard in public, at a Royal Court Theatre reading. It was staged by Birmingham Arts Lab in 1977 and at...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Icecream, CC 's play about tourists and tourism, set in Britain and the US, previewed at the Royal Court Theatre , directed by Max Stafford-Clark .
Churchill, Caryl. Icecream. Nick Hern, 1989.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text Sarah Daniels
Ripen Our Darkness, a play by SD about a woman exploited by her family and ignored by society, opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs (the smaller auditorium).
Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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Performance of text Louise Page
LP had another success with Salonika: her eighth mature play, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London (for whom she had written it on commission) and published in March 1983.
Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen, 1997.
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Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust, 1986.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's double bill of plays entitled Blue Heart of Blue/Heart began its tour with the Out of Joint and Royal Court theatre companies at Bury St Edmunds, moving soon afterwards to the Edinburgh Festival
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
SD 's play The Devil's Gateway was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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Performance of text Louise Page
In a collaborative play at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs entitled Falkland Sound/Voces de Malvinas and based on actual letters (those of David Tinker ) and interviews, LP addressed the topic of war, its slaughter...

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