Data: Women Playwrights in the West End: 1940 – 1949

Table listing plays by women on the London stage from 1940 – 1949.Taken from West End Women: Women and the London stage 1918 – 1962 by Maggie B Gale. Posted with permission.

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Play title	Author	Theatre	Dates	No. of performances
Cousin Muriel	Clemence Dane	Globe	07.03.1940 – 11.05.1940	75
Jeannie	Aimee Stuart	Wyndham’s	03.04.1940 – 22.06.1940	100
A House in the Square	Diana Morgan	St Martin’s	04.04.1940 – 25.04.1940	67
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Queen’s	05.04.1940 – 07.09.1940	180
The Women	Clare Booth	Strand	23.04.1940 – 04.05.1940	16
Dear Octopus	Dodie Smith	Adelphi	27.07.1940 – 31.08.1940	42
Margin for Error	Clare Booth	Apollo	01.08.1940 – 20.08.1940	45
Under One Roof	Kim Peacock	St Martin’s	24.04.1941 – 13.05.1941	24
Quiet Week End	Esther McCracken	Wyndham’s	22.07.1941 – 29.01.1944	1059
Other People’s Houses	Lynne Dexter	Ambassadors	30.10.1941 – 14.03.1942	172
Ducks and Drakes	M. J. Farrell	Apollo	25.11.1941 – 13.12.1941	23
Little Women	Marian De Forest	Westminster	22.12.1941 – 07.02.1942	56
Other People’s Houses	Lynne Dexter	Phoenix	19.03.1942 – 09.05.1942	131
Other People’s Houses	Lynne Dexter	Whitehall	11.05.1942 – 27.06.1942
Watch on the Rhine	Lillian Hellman	Aldwych	22.04.1942 – 04.12.1943	672
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Strand	21.05.1942 – 05.09.1942	176
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Lyric	12.09.1942 – 24.10.1942
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Ambassadors	26.12.1942 – 09.01.1943
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Scala	26.04.1942 – 22.05.1942
Baby Mine	Margaret Mayo	Westminster	09.06.1942 – 27.06.1943	390
Claudia	Rose Franken	St Martin’s	17.09.1942 – 15.01.1944	559
The Little Foxes	Lillian Hellman	Piccadilly	21.10.1942 – 21.11.1942	37
Mothers Are Waiting	Audrey Lucas	Adelphi	09.05.1942	1 mat.
Case 27, VC	Maud Flannery and T Browne	Comedy	02.06.1943 – 26.05.1943	30
Living Room	Esther McCracken	Garrick	09.06.1943 – 09.10.1943	142
Lottie Dundass	Enid Bagnold	Vaudeville	21.07.1943 – 09.10.1943	147
Lottie Dundass	Enid Bagnold	Cambridge	12.10.1943 – 20.11.1943
Landslide	Dorothy Albertyn and David Peel	Westminster	05.10.1942 – 06.11.1942	38
Alana Avenue	Mabel and Denis Constanduros	Vaudeville	14.10.1942 – 15.04.1944	231
Ten Little Niggers	Agatha Christie	St James’	17.11.1942 – 24.02.1944	261
Ten Little Niggers	Agatha Christie	Cambridge	29.02.1944 – 06.05.1944
Ten Little Niggers	Agatha Christie	St. James’	09.05.1944 – 01.07.1944
Alice in Wonderland	Clemence Dane	Scala	14.12.1942 – 12.02.1944	86
Alice in Wonderland	Clemence Dane	Palace	26.12.1944 – 27.01.1945
Where The Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills and R.R. Quilter	Winter Garden	27.12.1943 – 29.01.1944	46 mat.
Donabel Wrote a Tragedy	H. and H. Granville Barker	Arts	13.01.1944 – 06.02.1944	30
This Was a Woman	Joan Morgan	Comedy	15.03.1944 – 30.12.1944	380
Quiet Weekend	Esther McCracken	Wyndham’s	25.04.1944 – 02.09.1944	137
The Last of Summer	Kate 0 ‘Brien	Phoenix	07.06.1944 – 01.07.1944	29
Three’s a Family	Phoebe and Henry Ephron	Saville	21.09.1944 – 12.05.1945	317
Three’s a Family	Phoebe and Henry Ephron	Winter Garden	15.05.1945 – 23.06.1945
No Medals	Esther McCracken	Vaudeville	04.10.1944 – 20.07.1946	740
Scandal at Barchester	Vera Wheatley	Lyric	05.10.1944 – 09.12.1944	109
Scandal at Barchester	Vera Wheatley	Wyndham’s	12.12.1944 – 06.01.1945
Daughter Janie	J. Bentham and H. Williams	Apollo	18.10.1944 – 28.10.1944	14
Quiet Weekend	Esther McCracken	Playhouse	09.11.1944 – 03.02.1945	101
The Years Between	Daphne Du Maurier	Wyndham’s	10.01.1945 – 22.06.1946	618
Laura	Vera Caspary and George Sklar	St Martin’s	14.02.1945 – 07.04.1945	67
Great Day	Lesley Storm	Playhouse	14.03.1945 – 07.04.1945	29
Yellow Sands	Eden and Adelaide Philpotts	Westminster	29.03.1945 – 23.06.1945	103
Appointment With Death	Agatha Christie	Piccadilly	31.03.1945 – 05.05.1945	42
Lady from Edinburgh	Aimee Stuart and L. Arthur Rose	Playhouse	10.04.1945 – 10.08.1946	560
Maid Marion	Joan Brampton	His Majesty’s	15.05.1945	1 mat.
Duet For Two Hands	Mary Hayley Bell	Lyric	27.06.1945 – 11.05.1946	364
The Shouting Dies	Ronda Keane	Lyric	05.10.1945 – 03.11.1945	37
Fit For Heroes	H. Brooke and Kay Bannerman	Whitehall	19.12.1945 – 29.12.1945	11
Stage Door	Edna Ferber and George Kaufman	Saville	21.02.1946 – 30.03.1946	44
And No Birds Sing	Jenny Laird and John Fernald	Comedy	17.03.1946	1
And No Birds Sing	Jenny Laird and John Fernald	Aldwych	11.11.1946 – 25.01.1947	84
Murder on the Nile	Agatha Christie	Ambassadors	19.03.1946 – 02.04.1946	46
No Room at the Inn	Joan Temple	Winter Garden	03.05.1946 – 24.05.1947	427
The Kingmaker	Margaret Luce	St. James’	14.05.1946 – 20.08.1946	97
Grand National Night	Dorothy and Campbell Christie	Apollo	12.06.1946 – 01.02.1948	268
Green Laughter	Rose Simon Kohn	Comedy	13.06.1946 – 08.07.1946	29
The Man from the Ministry	Madeleine Bingham	Whitehall	07.07.1946	1
The Man from the Ministry	Madeleine Bingham	Comedy	24.12.1946 – 05.07.1947	220
Love Goes to Press	Martha Gelhorn and Virginia Cowles	Duchess	22.07.1946 – 24.08.1946	40
Pick Up Girl	Elsa Shelley	Prince of Wales’	23.07.1946 – 05.10.1946	170
Pick Up Girl	Elsa Shelley	Casino	14.10.1946 – 14.12.1946
Fear No More	Diana Hamilton and C. Aiken	Lyric	05.08.1946 – 31.08.1946	33
Soldiers Wife	Rose Franken	Duchess	27.08.1946 – 19.10.1946	62
Mother of Men	Ada G. Abbott	Comedy	12.09.1946 – 19.10.1946	49
Literally Speaking	Madeline and Cyric Campion	Aldwych	06.10.1946	1
Call Home the Heart	Clemence Dane	St. James	10.04.1947 – 17.05.1947	44
Angel	Mary Hayley Bell	Strand	06.06.1947 – 14.06.1947	10
The Conqueror’s Gate	Dorothy Lang	Savil	05.10.1947	1
Still She Wished for Company	Margaret Irwin and J. R. Monsell	Whitehall	12.10.1947	1
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Theatre Royal E15	10.11.1947 – 22.11.1947	16
The Little Thorn Dry	Gordon Daviot	Lyric	11.11.1947 – 06.12.1947	30
Daddy Long Legs	Jean Webster	Comedy	23.12.1947 – 17.01.1948	19 mat.
Diamond Lil	Mae West	Prince of Wales’	24.01.1948 – 08.05.1948	180
The Lady from Edinburgh	Aimee Stuart and L. Arthur Rose	Theatre Royal E15	09.02.1948 – 21.02.1948	16
Family Portrait	Lenore Coffee and WJ. Cowen	Strand	17.02.1948 – 20.03.1948	38
Cockpit	Bridget Boland	Playhouse	19.02.1948 – 10.04.1948	58
Castle Anne	Elizabeth Bowen and John Perry	Lyric	24.02.1948 – 20.03.1948	30
Dark Eyes	Glena Miranova	Strand	24.03.1948 – 29.05.1948	76
Happy with Either	Margaret Kennedy	St. James	22.04.1948 – 22.05.1948	35
Royal Circle	Romily Cavan	Wyndham’s	27.04.1948 – 29.05.1948	38
Top Floor	Rita Anderson	Whitehall	13.06.1948	1
Someone at the Door	Dorothy and Campbell Christie	Theatre Royal E15	12.07.1948 – 24.07.1948	16
A Man Must Die	Felicity Douglas	St Martin’s	04.08.1948 – 28.08.1948	29
Sixteen	Aimee and Philip Stuart	Theatre Royal E15	09.08.1948 – 21.08.1948	16
Valerious	Gordon Daviot	Saville	03.10.1948	1
September Tide	Daphne Du Maurier	Aldwych	15.12.1948 – 06.08.1949	267
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Cliff Mills	Cambridge	22.12.1948 – 22.01.1949	27 mat.
Harvey	Mary Chase	Prince of Wales’	05.01.1949 – 11.03.1950	610
Harvey	Mary Chase	Piccadilly	14.03.1950 – 01.07.1950
Quaint Honour	Barbara Gregory	Wyndham’s	09.01.1949	1
Sweethearts and Wives	G. and M. Hackforth Jones	Wyndham’s	22.02.1949 – 12.03.1949	23
The Foolish Gentlewoman	Margery Sharp	Duchess	23.03.1949 – 30.07.1949	180
Love’s A Funny Thing	Jane Hinton	Ambassadors	10.03.1949 – 12.03.1949	4
Acacia Avenue	D. and Mabel Constanduros	Theatre Royal E15	21.03.1949 – 26.03.1949	8
A Woman’s Place	Wendy Grimwood	Vaudeville	24.03.1949 – 21.05.1949	67
The Years Between	Daphne Du Maurier	Theatre Royal E15	11.04.1949 – 16.04.1949	7
Royal Highness	Margaret Webster	Lyric	13.04.1949 – 14.05.1949	35
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Scala	13.06.1949 – 19.06.1949	8
No Room at the Inn	Joan Temple	Theatre Royal E15	20.06.1949 – 25.06.1949	7
Western Wind	Charlotte Frances	Theatre Royal E15	04.07.1949 – 09.07.1949	27
Western Wind	Charlotte Frances	Piccadilly	09.09.1949 – 01.10.1949
Treasure Hunt	M. J. Farrell and John Perry	Apollo	14.09.1919 – 10.06.1950	358
Treasure Hunt	M. J. Farrell and John Perry	St Martin’s	12.06.1950 – 22.07.1950
John Keats Lived Here	Diana Raymond	Wyndham’s	25.09.1949	1
Love’s a Funny Thing	Jane Hinton	Adelphi	30.10.1949	1
Bonaventure	Charlotte Hastings	Vaudeville	06.12.1949 – 15.04.1949	149
Murder at the Vicarage (adpt.)	Moie Charles and Barbara Toy	Playhouse	14.12.1949 – 01.04.1950	126
The Silver Curlew	Eleanor Farjeon	Arts	22.12.1949 – 22.01.1950	40

Data: Women Playwrights in the West End: 1940 – 1949

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