Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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Literary responses | Dodie Smith | DS
recalled that the play opened on Easter Monday, and the gallery, full of rowdy playgoers, laughed in the wrong places, invited Fay Compton
[playing the lead] to speak up and made itself generally unpleasant... |
Performance of text | May Edginton | These two worked together again on a play entitled Secrets. ME
's Times obituary says that this was produced in 1922 at the Comedy Theatre
, where it ran for 373 performances starring Fay Compton |
Performance of text | Githa Sowerby | GS
's play Sheila, a realist treatment of a boss-typist romance, opened at St James's Theatre
in London, with Fay Compton
playing the lead. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 959 Production file for Githa Sowerby. 1994. |
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... |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | Autumn Crocus launched what theatre critic Ernest Short
called [a] Dodie Smith boom; in only six years, DS
had collected earnings of £60,000 from her plays. Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942. 202 |
Textual Production | Dodie Smith | Fay Compton
and Owen Nares
played the leading roles, and Smith's friend Phyllis Morris
first made her mark as a character actress. Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942. 202 Wynne-Tyson, Jon. Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell, 2004. 84 |
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