Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Agatha Christie | AC
's play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
in London: adapted from the title story in her Three Blind Mice, and Other Stories, 1948. It was still playing in 2014, as... |
| Performance of text | Agatha Christie | The Piccadilly Theatre
in London staged a dramatised version of Appointment with Death in March 1945. Death on the Nile was produced as Murder on the Nile at the Ambassadors Theatre
in March 1946, and... |
| Performance of text | Clemence Dane | CD
's melodrama The Way Things Happen (adapted from her own novel Legend) opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
, London. |
| Performance of text | Clemence Dane | CD
's play Granite opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
, London. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996. 100 |
| Performance of text | E. M. Delafield | In the same month as EMD
's hugely popular fiction Diary of a Provincial Lady, her first and most successful play, To See Ourselves, was produced at the Ambassadors Theatre
in London. Delafield, E. M., and Nicola Beauman. The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Rpt. ed., Virago, 1984. prelims Beauman, Nicola, and E. M. Delafield. “Introduction”. The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Rprt ed. , Virago Press, 1984, p. vii - xvii. vii McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985. 119 |
| Performance of text | John Galsworthy | JG
's Escape, a play centred on a prisoner who escapes from Dartmoor
, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
in London, where it ran for 243 performances. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
| Performance of text | G. B. Stern | Her next play was For Husbands Only, written jointly with Mrs D. C. F. Harding
and staged at the Ambassadors Theatre
in 1920. After that came the great success of her dramatised novel, The... |
| Performance of text | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Again she used the pen-name of Henrietta Leslie. She dedicated the book For Peter and it appeared with Galsworthy's foreword, which welcomes its unusual presentation of the war as it was or seemed to... |
| Performance of text | Harold Pinter | HP
's next play, Ashes to Ashes, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
. The production was by the Royal Court Theatre
(in exile while its buildings were renovated), and directed by the author. “Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Performance of text | George Paston | Annie Horniman
gave this play two successful revivals in Manchester: at the Midland Hotel Theatre
in October 1907, and at the Gaiety Theatre
in 1908, where its proceeds guaranteed the season's financial success. Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 164 |
| Performance of text | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
's Anyhouse, her first play written on her own, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
in London. It was published the same year Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 140 |
| Performance of text | Molly Keane | She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins
the same year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Eleanor Farjeon |
Timeline
22 August 1934: Gertrude Jennings's popular family drama...
Women writers item
22 August 1934
Gertrude Jennings
's popular family drama Family Affairs opened at the Ambassadors Theatre
in London.
Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge, 1996.
219, 117-19
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