Peggy to her Playwrights

The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent

AvPeggy Ramsay,Colin Chambers

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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 unforgiving scrutiny to be feared.‘Peggy judged by the most exalted standards and lashed her writers when they failed to meet them. Her force of personality made her well-nigh irresistible. The letters she wrote to her writers and to producers are extraordinary documents, filled with all these qualities, and indiscreet, blasphemous and saucy to boot.’ – Simon Callow

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-01
Mått:152 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oberon Books
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Medarbetare:Colin Chambers
ISBN:9781786826442

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements viiINTRODUCTION 1EDITOR’S NOTE 12ARTHUR ADAMOV 15RHYS ADRIAN 17JOHN ARDEN and MARGARETTA D’ARCY 18ALAN AYCKBOURN 28ENID BAGNOLD 45PETER BARNES 50JOHN BARTON 52ROBERT BOLT 53EDWARD BOND 88JOHN BOWEN 94HOWARD BRENTON 99BRIGID BROPHY 102CARYL CHURCHILL 104RICHARD COTTRELL 107DAVID CREGAN 108JONATHAN GEMS 109PETER GILL 110CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON 110DAVID HARE 113JOHN HOLMSTROM (a.k.a. ROGER GELLERT) 120DONALD HOWARTH 122ANN JELLICOE 126THOMAS KILROY 127STEPHEN LOWE 130FRANK MARCUS 131JOHN McGRATH 132DAVID MERCER 133JOHN MORTIMER 137PETER NICHOLS 139JOE ORTON 141ALAN PLATER 160STEPHEN POLIAKOFF 164DAVID RUDKIN 169WILLY RUSSELL 173JAMES SAUNDERS 176WALLACE SHAWN 177MARTIN SHERMAN 180COLIN SPENCER 180JOHN WHITING 181CHARLES WOOD 185POSTSCRIPT 188P.P.S. 199index 201