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Textual Production Bryony Lavery
After her American success of Frozen, BL planned an adaptation of Dracula to premiere at Princeton University in June 2004, and Discontented Winter: House Remix as a youth play for the National Theatre in...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
In late November, with perceived parallels to current events keeping The Handmaid's Tale riding high, Atwood announced that in September 2019 she would release a sequel: The Testaments, set in Gilead fifteen years after...
Textual Production Liz Lochhead
LL has written several plays for children and adolescents. These include Disgusting Objects, a play about schoolgirls' first encounter with sexism written for the Scottish Youth Theatre in 1982, and Shanghaied, a play...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW contributed a play, Arden City, to the National Theatre 's annual festival of theatre for young people, 2008, and the subsequent printed anthology, that year's New Connections.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
The Wandering Jew, a play adapted by MW from Eugène Sue 's long, unwieldy novel Le Juif errant (serialized in French from June 1844 to July 1845), was performed at the National Theatre in London.
Wandor, Michelene, and Mike Alfreds. The Wandering Jew. Methuen, 1987.
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Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
This was the first play that WP wrote, aged twenty-three. Though it is largely a play about women, it grew from interviews she did with veterans from the Falklands War, when she felt that the...
Textual Production Shena Mackay
SM has written a play, Nurse Macater, for the National Theatre .
Mackay, Shena. Redhill Rococo. Abacus, 1992.
prelims
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
In early 2017 WP was working on a play for the Royal National Theatre Studio , as well as a novel.
“Winsome Pinnock”. Kingston University London.
Textual Production Pam Gems
PG 's playStanley, in which Antony Sher starred as the painterStanley Spencer , opened at the National Theatre Cottesloe . It was published the same year.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73.
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Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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