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In 1978 the National Theatre staged an adaptation of Lark Rise written by Keith Dewhurst . After Dewhurst's sequel, Candleford Green, opened in 1979, successive performances of both plays in a single day became...

Pinter voted Tory in May 1979 (when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister) in reaction against trade union intransigence (which had threatened a play he was directing at the National Theatre ), and SDP in June...

BBC Radio rejected the play when MW submitted it to them in 1977, but decided to broadcast it in 1981 after a producer saw the stage production. The National Theatre likewise initially rejected it, but...

Masterpieces brought SD two awards for most promising playwright: one from Drama and another from Plays and Players: the London Theatre Critics Award, which she shared. Audiences at the National Theatre later voted this...

This was the first play by a living woman ever to be given at the National Theatre . Its first draft won the George Devine Award.Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times...

SD won several awards for the play. In England, she received the Charles Henry Foyle New Play Award in 1958 and an Arts Council Bursary Award in 1959. She also received the New York Drama...

Ethel Smyth sent her responses to this book by telegram on publication day: Book astounding so far. Agitatingly increases value of life. Two days later she sent: Final paragraph almost smashes machine of life with...

Daily Telegraph referred to this play as the cleverest murder mystery of the British theatre, while the Observer identified it as a classic. In June 1999 the set used in the original production...

This play won awards in London (Olivier Award and Evening Standard award, 1988) and New York (Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play, 1991). National Theatre audiences voted it one of the Hundred Plays...

While she admired the daring of the inital production by Mrs Worthington's Daughters , MW found the National Theatre production, staged simply with the actors in modern dress, to be one of the most rewarding...

Among others she includes a Newcastle orphan in 1905 and a feminist squatter in 1980. The dedication reads: For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren / & the women &...

AS originally composed Just for the youth theatre season run by the National Theatre (then called the Shell Connections Theatre Festival), an annual series of plays specially composed for performance by young actors.

BL 's play Frozen was published in the same month that it reached the stage of the Cottesloe Theatre in London (the smallest auditorium at the Royal National Theatre ).

In late 2016, after Britain had narrowly voted in favour of Brexit, CAD blended words of her own with those spoken by people nationwide, aged 9 to 97, across the United Kingdom, in interviews with...

It was four years before Trevor Nunn , director of the National Theatre , managed to arrange a move from Birmingham to the Cottesloe Theatre in London for this play, with its original cast.