Royal Court Theatre

MS must have been still at the threshold of her career as a dramatist when she proposed to Angela Brazil that she should do a stage adaptation of one of Brazil's school stories. Brazil quashed...

This play was the first by a woman to be staged by the RSC in Stratford. PG originally wrote it for the Royal Court Theatre at the request of playwright Ann Jellicoe , who was...

Its original production was at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958. In April 2015 a revival opened at the Orange Tree Theatre at Richmond in Surrey.

London's Royal Court had been vying with New York for the world premiere. Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby (1981) were all associated with the actress Billie Whitelaw .

The play was commissioned by Michael Codron , an influencial theatre producer who had backed Harold Pinter and Joe Orton . The production marks the beginning of CC 's long association with the Royal Court

She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...

In this production CC continued her longtime collaboration with director Max Stafford-Clark , who had worked on several of her Joint Stock and Royal Court plays.

In the five years after university she completed three stage plays and counted herself one of a group of playwrights connected with the Royal Court Theatre , which included John Arden , Edward Bond ,...

Other projects from the 1990s include Lives of the Great Poisoners (1991) and Hotel (1997), both co-written with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink for Second Stride theatre company; a translation of Seneca 's...