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Jacqueline Rudet

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Jacqueline Rudet (born 12.02.1962) is a British dramatist.[1][2][3]

Biography

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Born in London, England, Jacqueline Rudet (also known as Magdalene St Luce), spent her early years in the Caribbean island of Dominica, before returning to Britain, and studying drama at Barking College.[4]

Rudet's play Basin opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 29 October 1985.[5] Set in a London flat after a party the night before, the story centring on the friendship between three Dominican women living in London,[6] Basin was published in Black Plays, edited by Yvonne Brewster (Methuen, 1987),[7] and extracts were included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby, 1992).[8]

Works

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  • Money to Live. First produced at the Royal Court Theatre, 1984. Published in Plays by Women, Vol. 5, ed. Mary Remnant, Methuen, 1986).[9][2]
  • Basin. Produced at the Royal Court Theatre, 1985.
  • God's Second In Command. First produced at the Royal Court Theatre, 1985.[10]
  • Take Back What's Yours. First produced at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, 1989.

References

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  1. ^ Fister, Barbara (1995). "Rudet, Jacqueline". Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
  2. ^ a b Jacqueline Rudet, Unfinished Histories. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  3. ^ Elaine Aston (2003). An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre. Routledge. pp. 84–5. ISBN 978-1-134-88225-0.
  4. ^ "Jacqueline Rudet". Unfinished Histories. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Basin". Black Plays Archive. National Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  6. ^ M. Susanna Redondo (Winter 1997). "Realism and the Female Subject in Jacqueline Rudet's Basin". Modern Drama. 40 (4): 477–488. doi:10.3138/md.40.4.477.
  7. ^ Brewster, Yvonne, ed. (1987). Black Plays. Methuen Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0413157102.
  8. ^ Busby, Margaret, ed. (1992). Daughters of Africa. pp. 939–94.
  9. ^ "Money To Live". Black Plays Archive. National Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  10. ^ "God's Second In Command". Black Plays Archive. National Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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