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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.' â Simon Callow
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INDEX
Abelard and Heloise 39
Absurd Person Singular 117
Adamov, Arthur 15-16
Adrian, Rhys 5, 17-18
Afore Night Come 111
After the Rain 96
Agate, James 120
Albery, Donald 70, 143
Aldwych Theatre 19, 25, 27, 75, 111, 170
All Good Children 123
Allen, Roland see Alan Ayckbourn
Anderson, Lindsay 145, 165, 176, 195, 196
Andorra 71
apartheid 37-8, 43-4, 124, 125-6
Apollo Theatre 48
Appointment, The 123
Arbuzov, Alexei 186
Arden, John 10, 18-28, 48, 91
Aristotle 3
Arrabal, Fernando 15
Arts Council 57, 58, 100, 189
Arts Theatre (New Arts Theatre) 5, 6, 31, 54, 71, 107, 111, 121, 142, 170, 185
Ashes 43
Atrocity 173
Ayckbourn, Alan 5, 11, 28-45, 117, 130
Ayckbourn, Christine 42
Aymé, Marcel 15
Bagnold, Enid 5, 13, 45-50
Baker, George Pierce 192
Bakewell, Joan 135
Bakewell, Michael 20
Bald Prima Donna, The 169
Ballets Russes 92
Balzac, Honoré de 4, 107
Bambi Ramm 167
Banbury, Frith 8, 12, 58, 59-61, 64, 65-9, 81-2, 189
Bardach, Emilie 98
Baring, Maurice 46
Barnes, Peter 1, 50-1, 120, 130
Barrie, J. M. 120
BartĂłk, BĂ©la 78
Barton, John 52-3, 107
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre 8, 67, 182-3
BBC 20-1, 34, 96, 105, 141, 160, 189
Beatles, The 151, 174
Beaton, Cecil 197
Beauxâ Stratagem, The 156
Beaumont, Hugh âBinkieâ 6, 12, 33, 45-7, 61, 62-5, 69-70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 78, 82, 84, 91, 144, 146, 147, 152, 190
Beckett, Samuel 7, 13, 17, 70, 71, 114
Behan, Brendan 90
Bell, Anne Graham 102
Bennett, Alan 159
Bennett, Jill 156
Bergman, Ingmar 156
Better Class of Person, A 11
Bewitched, The 50
Beyond the Fringe 111
Billington, Michael 179
Bing, Rudolph 92
Birthday Party, The 7
Blakemore, Michael 38
Bligh, William 139
Boeing-Boeing 144, 145
Bolt, Celia (âJoâ) 77
Bolt, Robert 6, 7, 8, 15, 26, 34, 35, 38, 53-89
Bond, Edward 4, 5, 10, 24, 88-94, 101, 106, 108
Born in the Gardens 140
Bowen, John 38, 94-99, 149-50
Brandeis University 101
Bray, Barbara 16, 61
Breath of Spring 144
Brecht, Bertolt 3, 199
Breezeblock Park 175-6
Brenton, Howard 10, 99-102, 113, 179
Bridge, Peter 28-37, 40-1, 145
Bridges, Alan 135-6
Brien, Alan 147
Bristol Arts Centre 19
Brogan, Hugh 52
Brook, Peter 112
Brophy, Brigid 102-4
Brother and Sister 80-2
BĂŒchner, Georg 126, 189
Burglar, The 102
Buried Man, The 133, 134
Caesarâs Wife 46
Calder, John 93
Callow, Simon 1-2, 3-4, 11, 12
Campbell, Ken 196
Cambridge University 52, 107, 112, 168, 189
Capote, Truman 149
Carl Rosa Opera Company 65
Carmen 114
Cat Among the Pigeons 84
Chalk Garden, The 45
Chambers, Colin 4
Chapman, John 143
Charleyâs Aunt 110
Charlie Came to Our Town 162
Chatto and ...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Editorâs Note
- Arthur Adamov
- Rhys Adrian
- John Arden and Margaretta DâArcy
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Enid Bagnold
- Peter Barnes
- John Barton
- Robert Bolt
- Edward Bond
- John Bowen
- Howard Brenton
- Brigid Brophy
- Caryl Churchill
- Richard Cottrell
- David Cregan
- Jonathan Gems
- Peter Gill
- Christopher Hampton
- David Hare
- John Holmstrom (A.K.A. Roger Gellert)
- Donald Howarth
- Ann Jellicoe
- Thomas Kilroy
- Stephen Lowe
- Frank Marcus
- John McGrath
- David Mercer
- John Mortimer
- Peter Nichols
- Joe Orton
- Alan Plater
- Stephen Poliakoff
- David Rudkin
- Willy Russell
- James Saunders
- Wallace Shawn
- Martin Sherman
- Colin Spencer
- John Whiting
- Charles Wood
- Postscript
- P.P.S.
- Index