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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 | 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. 207 Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991. 74 |
politics | Ann Jellicoe | Looking back at her time at the Royal Court
from 1984, however, AJ
commented: I was awfully blind—I'm one of the ones that's been re-educated. . . . I didn't appreciate what tremendous disadvantages I... |
Author summary | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
was one of the new, post-war generation of playwrights associated with the Royal Court
, who helped to revitalise theatre in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her early plays, whose plotlessness... |
Publishing | Sarah Daniels | SD
began writing after reading an injunction from Doris Lessing
about putting one's life in order. Some fringe plays that she attended were absolutely dreadful, which made her confident that she could do better... |
Publishing | Ann Jellicoe | The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court
, despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ
credits John Osborne
for persuading them to produce... |
Reception | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
later described this play as a flop d'estime. qtd. in Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 9-23. 12 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 220, 222 |
Reception | Ann Jellicoe | Michael Coveney
and David Edgar
counted this, with The Knack, part of a legendary canon in Sloane Square (home of the Royal Court Theatre
). Coveney, Michael, and David Edgar. “Ann Jellicoe obituary”. theguardian.com, 1 Sept. 2017. |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | CC
's A Number (a play about cloning, whose characters are exclusively male) opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London, directed by Stephen Daldry
. Gardner, Lyn. “A Number”. Guardian Unlimited, 27 Sept. 2002. |
Textual Production | Pam Gems | This play was the first by a woman to be staged by the RSC in Stratford. PG
originally wrote it for the Royal Court Theatre
at the request of playwright Ann Jellicoe
, who was... |
Textual Production | Marie Stopes | MS
must have been still at the threshold of her career as a dramatist when she proposed to Angela Brazil
that she should do a stage adaptation of one of Brazil's school stories. Brazil quashed... |
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | Its original production was at the Royal Court Theatre
in London 1958. In April 2015 a revival opened at the |
Textual Production | Samuel Beckett | London's Royal Court
had been vying with New York for the world premiere. Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby (1981) were all associated with the actress Billie Whitelaw
. Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995. 60 |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | The play was commissioned by Michael Codron
, an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter
and Joe Orton
. Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan, 1991. 61 |
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