Royal Court Theatre

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Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Our Country's Good opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text Louise Page
Want-Ad, about LP 's eighth play to be written, was the first to be heard in public, at a Royal Court Theatre reading. It was staged by Birmingham Arts Lab in 1977 and at...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's widely successful verse drama about the London financial world, Serious Money, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Revised and Re-issued Edition in the Methuen Modern Play Series, Methuen, 1990.
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Performance of text Sarah Daniels
Ripen Our Darkness, a play by SD about a woman exploited by her family and ignored by society, opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs (the smaller auditorium).
Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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Performance of text Louise Page
LP had another success with Salonika: her eighth mature play, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London (for whom she had written it on commission) and published in March 1983.
Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen, 1997.
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Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust, 1986.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Icecream, CC 's play about tourists and tourism, set in Britain and the US, previewed at the Royal Court Theatre , directed by Max Stafford-Clark .
Churchill, Caryl. Icecream. Nick Hern, 1989.
prelims
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text Sarah Daniels
SD 's play The Devil's Gateway was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.
Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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Performance of text Louise Page
In a collaborative play at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs entitled Falkland Sound/Voces de Malvinas and based on actual letters (those of David Tinker ) and interviews, LP addressed the topic of war, its slaughter...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's double bill of plays entitled Blue Heart of Blue/Heart began its tour with the Out of Joint and Royal Court theatre companies at Bury St Edmunds, moving soon afterwards to the Edinburgh Festival
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
Byrthrite, SD 's historical feminist drama about women's reproductive rights and the persecution of witches, set during the English Civil War, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre .
Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11.
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Daniels, Sarah. Plays: One. Methuen, 1991.
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Cousin, Geraldine. Women in Dramatic Place and Time: Contemporary Female Characters on Stage. Routledge, 1996.
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Performance of text Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's unsuccessful dramatic version of Eleanor, a collaboration with US playwright Julian Sturgis , opened at the Court Theatre in London with Elizabeth Robins in her last professional role.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable, 1923.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's play Far Away opened at the Royal Court 's Theatre Upstairs, directed by Stephen Daldry .
Churchill, Caryl. Far Away. Nick Hern and Royal Court Theatre, 2000.
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Performance of text Ann Jellicoe
After this production, AJ decided to take some time away from writing to concentrate on her two young children. In an interview in 1972, she claimed that she found it a relief to stop writing...
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
The Women's Playhouse Trust first performed a play by SD about sexual abuse, Beside Herself, at the Royal Court Theatre , directed by Jules Wright .
Daniels, Sarah. Plays: Two. Methuen, 1994.
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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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Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist 's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller 's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby 's Rutherford and...

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