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31 Bedford St, London WC2E 9EH, UKEdith Craig was born on December 9th, 1869 to parents Ellen Terry and Edward William Godwin. Her birth name was Edith Godwin, but legally changed it in 1883 to Edith Ailsa Craig. She was baptized Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig in 1887 but known by her close circle of friends as Edy. Terry thought that Ailsa Craig was a good stage name after
Edith Craig. Actress: The God in the Garden. Edith Craig born in Hertfordshire in 1869 from a famous theatre family, daughter of the legendary stage star Ellen Terry and architect-designer Edward William Godwin. Edith became a well-known stage director, producer, costume designer and actress making her stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in 1878, sophisticated upper-class lady in a handful ...
Edith Craig was a leader of the British Drama League from 1919. Craig was also art director of the Leeds Art Theatre and directed a season of George Bernard Shaw plays at the Everyman Theatre Hampstead. She is said to be the model for the character Miss Latrobe in Virginia Woolf's novel Between the Acts (1941).
Craig, Edith (1869–1947) By Cockin, Katharine M. Edith (“Edy”) Craig, lesbian theater director and women’s suffrage activist, directed numerous plays and historical pageants, making significant contributions to the Little Theatre Movement in interwar Britain. After an unofficial apprenticeship as an actor and costumier with her mother ...
Edith Craig (1869-1947) was a prolific theatre director who trained as an actor and costumier at London’s Lyceum Theatre. She became involved with the women’s suffrage movement, organising street processions, selling newspapers on the street, and directing plays with the Actresses’ Franchise League and the Pioneer Players Theatre society which she founded.
26 de ene. de 2017 · This new biography explores the extraordinary life of Edith Craig (1869-1947), her prolific work in the theatre and her political endeavours for women's suffrage and socialism. At London's Lyceum Theatre in its heyday she worked alongside her mother, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Bram Stoker, and gained valuable experience.
1 de ago. de 2010 · Nikolai Evreinov and Edith Craig as Mediums of Modernist Sensibility. Nikolai Evreinov (1870–1953) was a Russian playwright, director, and theorist of the theatre who played a leading part in the modernist movement of Russian theatre. Evreinov's 1911 monodrama The Theatre of the Soul (V kulisakh dushi) was staged by the Crooked Mirror theatre ...
