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Pioneer Players
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christopher St John | 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... |
| Occupation | Christopher St John | 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... |
| Occupation | Edith Craig | 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. |
| Occupation | Edith Craig | 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. Melville, Joy. Ellen and Edy. Pandora, 1987. 232 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 224 |
| Occupation | Edith Craig | EC
's Pioneer Players
company was revived to perform Susan Glaspell
's The Verge at London's Regent Theatre
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 225 |
| Occupation | Edith Craig | In May 2011 a conference was held at the University of Hull
to mark the centenary of the Pioneer Players
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. |
| Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | 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
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 221 Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990. 124-5 |
| Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | 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
. |
| Performance of text | Constance Holme | 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
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Performance of text | Christopher St John | 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. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 893 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 119 |
| Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | 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. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 797 Cockin, Katharine, and Jo Campling. Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: the Pioneer Players 1911-1925. Palgrave, 2001. 47 |
| Performance of text | Christopher St John | M. V. Salvage
and CSJ
's collaborative adaptation The Rising Sun by Herman Heijermans
was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Lyric Theatre
, Hammersmith. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 929 |
| Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | Edith Craig
's Pioneer Players
mounted a production of Two Pierrots, EL
's adaptation of Rostand
's play Les deux Pierrots (which has been described as a curtain-raiser), at London's Little Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 797 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's adaptation/translation The Children's Carnival (from Carnaval des enfants by St Georges de Bouhelier
) was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Kingsway Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 928 |
| Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's one-act play The First Actress made part of the inaugural performance (Kingsway Theatre
, London) of the newly founded Pioneer Players
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 928 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 221 |
Timeline
June 1911: Ellen Terry lectured on the topic of Shakespeare's...
Building item
June 1911
Ellen Terry
lectured on the topic of Shakespeare
's Triumphant Women, under the auspices of the Pioneer Players
.
Cockin, Katharine. “Cicely Hamilton’s Warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women’s suffrage movement”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 527-42. 534
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