Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent by Colin Chambers (eBook)
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The definitive biography of Peggy Ramsay, the most influential play agent the theatrical world has ever seen.
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Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent
Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent
by Colin Chambers
The definitive biography of the most influential play agent the theatrical world has ever seen.
With a new foreword by Stewart Pringle – National Theatre of Great Britain
Winner of the Society for Theatre Research’s 1997 Theatre Book Prize
Peggy Ramsay was the most admired British play agent of the 20th Century. With a matchless ability to visualise a play, she set up business in 1953 and, over the years, nurtured and developed the most dazzling client list which included Eugene Ionesco, Joe Orton, Robert Bolt, David Mercer, John McGrath, Iris Murdoch, John Mortimer, James Saunders, Peter Nichols, Charles Wood, Ann Jellicoe, Edward Bond, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn, Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton and Willy Russell. Her role in the development of modern British drama was undeniable.
One of the most remarkable things about her was her instinctive generosity. Peggy believed that the living playwright belonged at the centre of the theatre. A theatre without new writing talent to refresh it is worthless.
“A fascinating portrait and a work of importance” ~ John Mortimer
“An important book, and an inspiring one, which will do a great deal to restore Peggy to her proper stature” ~ Simon Callow
Details
| Format | eBook |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | n/a |
| Extent | 388 |
| ISBN | 9781913630171 |
| Publication date | 01 October 2020 |
BIOGRAPHY
Colin Chambers is Emeritus Professor of Drama at Kingston University. Colin was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 997 and has also been a journalist and theatre critic. He is co-author with Richard Nelson of Kenneth’s First Play and Tynan (both Royal Shakespeare Company), and he selected and edited for performance Three Farces by John Maddison Morton, which were produced at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. As well as editing the Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, Colin has written extensively on the theatre including Other Spaces: New Writing and The RSC, Playwright’s Progress (with Michael Prior), The Story of Unity Theatre, Inside The Royal Shakespeare Company, Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance – Paul Robeson, Isadore Duncan and Charlie Chaplin and Black and Asian Theatre in Britain; A History. Peggy to Her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, play agent was published to critical acclaim in 2018.
