Data: Women Playwrights in the West End: 1950 – 1959

Table listing plays by women on the London stage from 1950 – 1960.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
Tomorrow’s Pride	Lydia Ragosin	Lyric	12.02.1950	1
The Platinum Set	Reg Denham and Mary Orr	Saville	30.03.1950 – 08.04.1950	11
The Man with the Umbrella	Roma June	Duchess	05.04.1950 – 29.04.1950	29
Cry Liberty	Esther McCracken	Vaudeville	21.04.1950 – 12.05.1950	26
The Gates of Brass	Sheila Hodgson	Apollo	14.05.1950	1
His Excellency	Dorothy and C. Campbell	Princes	23.05.1950 – 29.10.1950	452
His Excellency	Dorothy and C. Campbell	Piccadilly	31.10.1950 – 23.06.1951
If This Be Error	Rachel Grieve	Lyric	24.05.1950 – 24.06.1950	37
Always Afternoon (adpt.)	Dido Milroy	Garrick	25.07.1950 – 26.08.1950	38
The Little Hut (adpt. from A. Roussin)	Nancy Mitford	Lyric	2308.1950 – 05.09.1953	1261
Spring Song	Bella and Sam Spewack	Saville	04.09.1950 – 30.09.1950	31
Sing Cuckoo	Judy Campbell	Whitehall	10.12.1950	1
Lace on her Petticoat	Aimee Stuart	Ambassadors	14.12.1950 – 26.05.1951	188
The Silver Curlew	Eleanor Farjeon and Clifton Parkes	Fortune	22.12.1950 – 20.01.1950	50
Spring at Marino	Constance Cox	Arts	13.12.1951 – 18.03.1951	40
Temple Folly	Bridget Boland	Whitehall	25.02.1951	1
The Seventh Veil	Muriel and Sydney Box	Princes	14.03.1951 – 12.05.1951	68
The Martin’s Nest	Joan Morgan	Westminster	12.05.1951 – 12.05.1951	35
The Hollow	Agatha Christie	Fortune	07.06.1951 – 06.10.1951	376
The Hollow	Agatha Christie	Ambassadors	08.10.1951 – 02.05.1952
Come Live With Me	Dorothy and C. Christie	Vaudeville	21.06.1951 – 14.07.1951	28
Poor Judas	Enid Bagnold	Arts	18.07.1951 – 05.08.1951	23
The Enchanted Garden	Madge Pemberton	Saville	14.10.1951	1
Women of Twilight	Sylvia Rayman	Vaudeville	07.11.1951 – 19.04.1952	253
Women of Twilight	Sylvia Rayman	Victoria Palace	18.06.1952 – 01.11.1952
The Young Eliza	Jeannette Dowling and Beth F Letton	Cambridge	09.12.1951	1
The Day’s Mischief	Lesley Storm	Duke of York’s	11.12.1951 – 02.02.1952	60
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Winter Garden	24.12.1951 – 10.01.1952	31
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Princes	20.12.1952 – 17.01.1953	33
Where the Rainbow Ends	Mrs Clifford Mills	Stoll	26.12.1953 – 16.01.1954	38
The Same Sky	Yvonne Mitchell	Lyric	31.01.1952 – 01.03.1952	80
The Same Sky	Yvonne Mitchell	Duke of York’s	18.03.1952 – 26.10.1952
To See Ourselves	E.M. Delafield	Arts	26.02.1952 – 23.03.1952	32
The Young	Jeanette Dowling and Elizabeth F Letton	New	02.04.1952 – 21.06.1952	504
The Young	Jeanette Dowling and Elizabeth F Letton	Criterion	30.06.1952 – 20.16.1953
The Valley and the Peak	Joan Morgan	Whitehall	06.04.1952	1
Monserrat	Lillian Hellman	Lyric	08.04.1952 – 10.05.1952	38
Lords of Creation	Edward Percy and Lilian Denham	Vaudeville	24.04.1952 – 10.05.1952	4
After My Fashion	Diana Morgan	Ambassadors	08.05.1952 – 09.08.1952	107
The Step Forward	Anne Trego	Strand	30.07.1952 – 06.09.1952	48
Two Loves I Have	Dorothy and Howard Bauer	Arts	24.09.1952 – 19.10.1952	31
Husbands Don’t Count	Patricia Hollender	Winter Garden	01.10.1952 – 29.11.1952	62
Lord Arthurs Saville’s Crime	Constance Cox	Court	07.10.1952 – 25.10.1952	21
Letter From Paris	Dodie Smith	Aldwych	10.10.1952 – 01.11.1952	27
Murder Mistaken	Janet Green	Ambassadors	04.11.1952 – 22.11.1952	156
Murder Mistaken	Janet Green	Vaudeville	24.11.1952 – 28.03.1953
The Blue Lamp	Ted Willis and Jan Read	Hippodrome	19.11.1952 – 06.12.1952	32
The Mousetrap	Agatha Christie	Ambassadors	02.11.1952	15500+
Sweet Peril	Mary Orr and Reg Denham	St. James’	03.12.1952 – 10.01.1953	44
The Man	Mel Dinell	Her Majesty’s	30.12.1952 – 07.02.1953	95
The Man	Mel Dinell	St Martin’s	16.02.1953 – 28.03.1953
The Gift	Mary Lumsden	St Martin’s	22.01.1953 – 14.02.1953	28
Red-Headed Blond	Val Guest	Vaudeville	01.04.1953 – 11.07.1953	116
Here We Are	Dorothy Parker	Adelphi	26.04.1953	1
They Owe It All to Us	John Hurst and Priscilla Malcolm	Adelphi	26.04.1953	1
The Uninvited Guest	Mary Hayley Bell	St. James’	27.05.1953 – 13.06.1953	21
The Man with Expensive Tastes	Ed Percy and Lilian Denham	Vaudeville	23.07.1953 – 15.08.1953	21
Carrington V C	D. and C. Campbell	Westminster	28.07.1953 – 29.08.1953	205
Age of Consent	Charlotte Haldane	Princes	22.08.1953 – 29.08.1953	9
The Secret Tent	Elizabeth Addyman	Strand	04.10.1953	1
Witness For the Prosecution	Agatha Christie	Winter Garden	28.10.1953 – 29.01.1955	458
The Return	Bridget Boland	Duchess	09.11.1953 – 16.01.1954	29
A Christmas Carol	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	09.12.1953 – 19.12.1953	13
A Christmas Carol	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	16.12.1958 – 17.01.1959	45
A London Actress	Emma Litchfield	Arts	16.12.1953 – 10.01.1954	32
Treasure Island	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	26.12.1953 – 16.01.1954	36
Treasure Island	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	26.12.1956 – 12.01.1957	31
Alice Through the Looking Glass	Felicity Douglas	Princes	09.02.1954 – 20.03.1954	37
The Fifth Season	Sylvia Reagan	Cambridge	24.02.1954 – 22.05.1954	107
I Capture the Catle	Dodie Smith	Aldwych	04.03.1954 – 24.04.1954	58
The White Countess	J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes	Saville	24.03.1954 – 28.03.1954	5
The Prisoner	Bridget Boland	Globe	14.04.1954 – 05.06.1954	60
The Sun Room	Romill Cavan	Arts	29.04.1954 – 23.05.1954	30
Three Weeks Ahead	Laurie Wylie	Princes	02.05.1954	1
Its Never Too Late	Felicity Douglas	Westminster	03.06.1954 – 26.06.1954	196
Its Never Too Late	Felicity Douglas	Strand	28.06.1954 – 20.11.1954
All For Mary	H. Brooks and Kay Bannerman	Duke of York’s	09.09.1954 – 11.06.1955	312
The Cruel Daughters (Balzac: Le Pere Goriot)	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	19.10.1954 – 06.11.1954	19
The Immoralist	Ruth and Augustus Goetz	Arts	03.11.1954 – 05.12.1954	39
The Chimes (adpt.)	Joan Littlewood	Theatre Royal E15	30.11.1954 – 18.12.1954	23
Spider’s Web	Agatha Christie	Savoy	14.12.1954 – 03.01.19456	774
The Prince and the Pauper	Joan Littlewood and E. MacColl	Theatre Royal E 15	27.12.1954 – 15.01.1955	32
The Yellow Curtains	Joyce Dennys	Adelphi	09.01.1955	1
Its Different for Men	M. Pertwee and Brenda and Monica Danischesky	Duchess	11.05.1955 -14.05.1955	40
The Lovers	Marcelle Maurette	Winter Garden	06.05.1955 – 21.05.1955	19
The Mimosa Man adpt.	Elizabeth Milne	Strand	09.05.1955	1
My Three Angels	Sam and Bella Spewack	Lyric	12.05.1955 – 26.11.1955	228
The Lost Generation	Patricia Hollender	Garrick	01.06.1955 – 02.07.1955	32
Home and Away	Heather McIntyre	Garrick	19.07.1955 – 13.08.1955	30
The Bandit’s Hat	Eve Morganti	Strand	09.10.1955	1
The Famous Five	Enid Blyton	Princes	23.12.1955 – 21.01.1956	26
The Famous Five	Enid Blyton	Hippodrom	20.12.1956 – 13.01.1957	36 mat.
Darkling Child	W S. Merwin and Dido Milroy	Arts	21.07.1956 – 19.02.1956	29
Doctor Jo	Joan Morgan	Aldwych	15.02.1956 – 17.03.1956	37
Tabitha	Arnold Ridley and Mary Cathcart	Duchess	08.03.1956 – 14.04.1956	43
Tolka Row	Maura Laverty	Wyndham’s	08.04.1956	1
The Chalk Garden	Enid Bagnold	Haymarket	11.04.1956 – 09.11.1957	658
Day After Tomorrow	Anne Walters	Strand	06.05.1956	1
Gigi	Anita Loos	New	23.05.1956 – 01.09.1956	117
Love Affair	Dulcie Gray	Lyric	01.06.1956 – 16.06.1956	19
The Long Echo	Leslie Storm	St. James’	01.08.1956 – 07.09.1956	37
The Young and The Beautiful (adp)	Sally Benson	Arts	15.08.1956 – 30.11.1957	39
Towards Zero	Agatha Christie	St. James’	04.09.1956 – 02.03.1957	205
The Children’s Hour	Lillian Hellman	Arts	19.09.1956 – 28.10.1956	47
Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat	Hugh and Margaret Williams	Duchess	12.10.1956 – 15.12.1956	311
Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat	Hugh and Margaret Williams	St Martin’s	18.12.1956 – 13.07.1957
Mr Parker – From Paris	Tanya Teronova	Whitehall	21.10.1956	1
Cold Water Flat	Nancy Hamilton	Adelphi	28.10.1956	1
The Touch of Fear	Dorothy and C. Christie	Aldwych	05.12.1956 – 16.02.1957	84
Never Say Die	Diana Marr Johnson	Strand	13.01.1957	1
Light Falling	Teresa Deevey	Lyric	14.01.1957 – 16.02.1957	40
The Member of the Wedding	Carson McCullers	Court	05.02.1957 – 09.03.1957	38
Dom Kobiet (The House of Women)	Zofia Nalkowska	Scala	07.06.1957	1
Time to Speak	Sylvia Rayman	Arts	11.06.1957 – 23.06.1957	16
The Waiting of Lester Abbs	Kathleen Sully	Court	30.06.1957	1
Roar Like a Dove	Lesley Storm	Phoenix	26.09.1957 – 05.03.1960	1007
The Queen and the Welshman	Rosemary Anne Sisson	Lyric	07.11.1957 – 23.11.1959	20
Paddle Your Own Canoe	Lucienne Hill	Criterion	04.12.1957 – 29.03.1958	132
Be My Guest	Mary Jukes	Winter Garden	11.12.1951 – 04.01.1958	28
The Happy Man	Hugh and Margaret Williams	Westminster	13.12.1957 – 01.02.1958	55
Love From Margaret	Evelyn Ford	Court	16.02.1958	1
The Sport of My Mad Mother	Ann Jellicoe	Court	25.02.1958 – 08.03.1958	14
Each His Own Wilderness	Doris Lessing	Court	23.03.1958	1
The Quiet Room	Jean Dalrymple	Wyndham’s	30.03.1958	1
Verdict	Agatha Christie	Strand	22.05.1958 – 21.06.1958	35
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Theatre Royal E15	27.05.1958 – 28.06.1958	27
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Theatre Royal E15	28.06.1958 – 21.01.1959	368
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Wyndham’s	10.02.1959 – 06.06.1959
A Taste of Honey	Shelagh Delaney	Criterion	08.06.1959 – 12.12.1959
The Party	Jane Arden	New	28.05.1958 – 22.11.1958	205
Speaking of Murder	Audrey and William Roos	St Martin’s	04.06.1958 – 01.11.1958	173
Noon Has No Shadows	Patricia Joudry	Arts	18.07.1958 – 17.08.1958	37
Dear Augustine	Alison MacLeod	Court	28.07.1958-02.08.1958	8
The Unexpected Guest	Agatha Christie	Duchess	12.08.1958-30.01.1960	612
The Grass Is Greener	Hugh and Margaret Williams	St Martin’s	02.12.1958-06.02.1960	492
Eighty in the shade	Clemence Dane	Globe	08.01.1959-13.06.1959	179
The Hidden River (adpt. from Storm Jameson)	Ruth and Augustus Goetz	Cambridge	13.04.1959-25.04.1959	16
Dark Halo	Sylvia Leigh	Arts	14.04.1959-10.05.1959	32
The Pleasure of his Company	S. Taylor and Cornelia 0. Skinner	Haymarket	24.04.1959-09.04.1960	403
Natural Causes	Vera Colebrook	Arts	12.05.1959-17.05.1959	8
Ulysses In Nightown(adpt.)	Marjorie Barkenton	Arts	21.05.1959-05.07.1959	54
Beware of Angels	Audrey E. Lyndor and D. Leslie	Westminster	26.05.1959-06.07.1959	6
Detour After Dark (adpt.)	Lucia Victor	Fortune	08.06.1959-13.06.1959	8
A Raisin In the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	Adelphi	04.08.1959-10.10.1959	78
Rollo	Felicity Douglas	Strand	27.10.1959-30.01.1960	133
Rollo	Felicity Douglas	Duchess	01.02.1960-20.02.1960
Wear a Green Willow	Casha Hunter	Strand	13.12.1959	1

Data: Women Playwrights in the West End: 1950 – 1959

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