Peggy to her Playwrights - Peggy Ramsay

Peggy to her Playwrights

The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent

(Autor)

Colin Chambers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
360 Seiten
2018 | Illustrated edition
Oberon Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78682-429-5 (ISBN)
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An inspiring collection of letters written by play agent Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) to her numerous clients.
Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on.

To her remarkable array of clients, her letter writing was notorious, marked by searing candour, both a wondrous motivation and an

Colin Chambers, a former journalist and theatre critic, was Literary Manager of the RSC (1981-1997), and since 2014 has been Emeritus Professor of Drama at Kingston University.

Acknowledgements vii

INTRODUCTION 1

EDITOR’S NOTE 12

ARTHUR ADAMOV 15

RHYS ADRIAN 17

JOHN ARDEN and MARGARETTA D’ARCY 18

ALAN AYCKBOURN 28

ENID BAGNOLD 45

PETER BARNES 50

JOHN BARTON 52

ROBERT BOLT 53

EDWARD BOND 88

JOHN BOWEN 94

HOWARD BRENTON 99

BRIGID BROPHY 102

CARYL CHURCHILL 104

RICHARD COTTRELL 107

DAVID CREGAN 108

JONATHAN GEMS 109

PETER GILL 110

CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON 110

DAVID HARE 113

JOHN HOLMSTROM (a.k.a. ROGER GELLERT) 120

DONALD HOWARTH 122

ANN JELLICOE 126

THOMAS KILROY 127

STEPHEN LOWE 130

FRANK MARCUS 131

JOHN McGRATH 132

DAVID MERCER 133

JOHN MORTIMER 137

PETER NICHOLS 139

JOE ORTON 141

ALAN PLATER 160

STEPHEN POLIAKOFF 164

DAVID RUDKIN 169

WILLY RUSSELL 173

JAMES SAUNDERS 176

WALLACE SHAWN 177

MARTIN SHERMAN 180

COLIN SPENCER 180

JOHN WHITING 181

CHARLES WOOD 185

POSTSCRIPT 188

P.P.S. 199

index 201

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 photos; colour and black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 452 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10 1-78682-429-9 / 1786824299
ISBN-13 978-1-78682-429-5 / 9781786824295
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