Pioneer Players

Atwood, who had been exhibiting her paintings since 1893, trained at the Slade School and was a member of the New English Art Club . During World War I she was one of the few...

CSJ , as well as writing and acting for the Pioneer Players , sat on their committees and served as honorary secretary, 1915-20. Her stage roles for the Players included one in Edith Craig's production...

EC founded the Pioneer Players , a women's theatre company comprised of amateurs and professionals, as a result of her work on Cicely Hamilton 's A Pageant of Great Women.

At the Ninth Annual General Meeting of The Pioneer Players (founded by EC ), members voted to dissolve the society because of financial problems and lack of support.

EC 's Pioneer Players company was revived to perform Susan Glaspell 's The Verge at London's Regent Theatre .

In May 2011 a conference was held at the University of Hull to mark the centenary of the Pioneer Players .

CSJ 's one-act play The First Actress made part of the inaugural performance (Kingsway Theatre , London) of the newly founded Pioneer Players .

CSJ 's and Charles Thursby 's one-act play The Coronation, in which a monarch is converted to socialism on his way to be crowned, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Savoy Theatre , London.

CSJ 's one-act play Macrena, about the nineteenth-century Polish nun Irena Macrena , was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the King's Hall , London.

CSJ 's translation from the pioneering woman playwright Hrosvit, Hrotsvit, or Roswitha , a one-act play called Paphnutius, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Savoy Theatre , London.

Jack and Jill and a Friend, CH 's comic drama about the difficulties of being a woman writer, was performed by the Pioneer Players at the Kingsway Theatre in London, directed by Edith Craig .

Later that year it toured provincial suffrage societies for the Actresses' Franchise League , under the direction of Edith Craig . It eventually became a staple piece for Craig's Pioneer Players .

CH 's dialect play The Home of Vision (one of her only two dramatic pieces to be performed in London over the course of her career) was acted by Edith Craig 's Pioneer Players .

The Theatre of the Soul, a translation by Marie Potapenko and CSJ of Nikolai Evreinov 's expressionist play V kulisakh dushi, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Little Theatre , London.

EL 's The Thumbscrew, a tragic one-act play condemning sweated labour, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Little Theatre in London.