Ambassadors Theatre

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
The play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. Perry had urged her to write it, against...
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.
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
99
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.
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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
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF 's collaboration with her youngest brother, Herbert , began before the first world war in amateur entertainments, with spoof patriotic ballads like The Coastguard, whose bluff speaker prefers to let his little son...

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.
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