Molly's close friends included novelist Elizabeth Bowen
and actress Peggy Ashcroft
. Visiting the Perry family home at Woodrooff, she met John Perry
, who later collaborated with her on plays, and Bobby Keane
...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Bowen
EB
loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John
and Susan Buchan
, and it was through them that she...
Performance of text
Kate O'Brien
She finished writing it in September 1942, with the war at its height, deep in the English countryside at Croyle House near Cullompton in Devon. A stage adaptation by KOB
and John Perry
opened...
Performance of text
Elizabeth Bowen
EB
's single play, Castle Anna (written in collaboration with John Perry
, who was also at this time writing plays with Molly Keane
), was performed in London.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
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Textual Production
Molly Keane
MK
's Treasure Hunt, a comic play co-written with John Perry
, opened in London, starring Sybil Thorndike
.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
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Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Textual Production
Molly Keane
MK
's final play for the London stage, a farce co-written with John Perry
entitled Dazzling Prospect, was unsuccessfully produced (with Margaret Rutherford
again in the lead).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
131
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.
Textual Production
Molly Keane
MK
's next play (again in collaboration with Perry
and directed by Gielgud
) was Ducks and Drakes, 1941, published the following year.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
131
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
114
Textual Production
Kate O'Brien
KOB
's The Ante-Room appeared on stage in August 1936 in a dramatic adaptation which John Perry
made without any consultation with her. Either he or the producer, Guthrie McClintick
, radically altered the conclusion...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Justice
With sublime disregard for relevance, her elaborate title-page further promises a translation from Spanish, collected by the author of the Russian parts of the book, of an account of relics at Oviedo. Despite this...
Textual Production
Molly Keane
MK
's identity as a writer was publicly revealed by the opening of her first play, Spring Meeting, written in collaboration with John Perry
.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.
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Timeline
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Texts
Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Dazzling Prospect. Samuel French, 1961.
Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Spring Meeting. Samuel French, 1938.
Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Treasure Hunt. Samuel French, 1952.