Royal Court Theatre

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
back cover
“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
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.
prelims
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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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...
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
Byrthrite, SD 's historical feminist drama about women's reproductive rights and the persecution of witches, set during the English Civil War, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre .
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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Cousin, Geraldine. Women in Dramatic Place and Time: Contemporary Female Characters on Stage. Routledge, 1996.
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Performance of text Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's unsuccessful dramatic version of Eleanor, a collaboration with US playwright Julian Sturgis , opened at the Court Theatre in London with Elizabeth Robins in her last professional role.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable, 1923.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's play Far Away opened at the Royal Court 's Theatre Upstairs, directed by Stephen Daldry .
Churchill, Caryl. Far Away. Nick Hern and Royal Court Theatre, 2000.
title-page
Performance of text Ann Jellicoe
After this production, AJ decided to take some time away from writing to concentrate on her two young children. In an interview in 1972, she claimed that she found it a relief to stop writing...
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
The Women's Playhouse Trust first performed a play by SD about sexual abuse, Beside Herself, at the Royal Court Theatre , directed by Jules Wright .
Daniels, Sarah. Plays: Two. Methuen, 1994.
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Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.
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Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist 's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller 's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby 's Rutherford and...
Performance of text Samuel Beckett
SB 's play Fin de partie (Endgame), a bleak piece about alienation set in a desolate world, was published in Paris. The next month it had its first performance (in French) at the Royal Court , London.
Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
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Taylor, John Russell. The Penguin Dictionary of theTheatre. Penguin, 1968.
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Performance of text Sarah Daniels
Another play by SD opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs: The Madness of Esme and Shaz, performed by the English Stage Company .
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: Two. Methuen, 1994.
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Performance of text Samuel Beckett
SB 's play Endgame was banned from performance at the Royal Court in London by the Lord Chancellor since the Deity was called a bastard. It finally opened in November this year.
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's immensely controversial ten-minute work Seven Jewish Children—a Play for Gaza premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London, causing a furore which spread globally over the next few months.
Churchill, Caryl. “Read Caryl Churchillapos;s Seven Jewish Children”. guardia.co.uk, 2009.

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