AUTUMN 2010
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Friday, 3 September 2010 |
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Box Office Opening Hours |
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Wednesday, 1 September 2010 |
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Neighbours' star set for Riverside |
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Wednesday, 1 September 2010 |
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Theatre by Women for Women |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
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Annual Report |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
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Riverside Youth Theatre Auditions |
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010
- Portrush-based Playwright to be published by Samuel French Ltd
In 1830 George IV died and his younger brother William became King; Stephenson's Rocket had just been completed and the first passenger-carrying train was being "dragged by a locomotive"; the young Charles Dickens became a shorthand writer in Doctors' Commons; and in the theatre history had just been made with Black Eye'd Susan which had run for 150 performances at the Surrey Theatre. In this year too the forerunner to the firm which was to become Samuel French Ltd was founded in London.
When speaking about Theatre in any shape or form, Samuel French Ltd is one of the most famous and prestigious publishers of the last two hundred years. Every major playwright in the world has one or more of their works published by that company. The firm now has headquarters in both London and New York. It was the London end of the business that developed the idea of controlling the performing rights and the collection of royalties on them. Samuel French acquired not only the publishing rights but also the rights of performance of plays throughout the British Isles, later adding the same rights for all of America.
It is then, with particular pleasure, that we can announce that locally-based playwright SCOTT MARSHALL has been invited to join Samuel French’s sizeable stable of international authors. French will soon publish one of Marshall’s full-length plays The Threefold Cord.
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