Peggy to her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent

Peggy Ramsay and Colin Chambers

ISBN 10: 1786824299 / ISBN 13: 9781786824295

Published by Oberon Books Ltd, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peggy to her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent
• Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786824299
• ISBN 13: 9781786824295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Colin Chambers is Emeritus Professor of Drama at Kingston University. Colin was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997, 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, Playwrights' Progress (with Michael Prior), The Story of Unity Theatre, Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (winner of the inaugural Theatre Book Prize), Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company, Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance – Paul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie Chaplin and Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History.