The authorized biography of one of the most influential and colourful behind-the-scenes figures in the British theatre since the war. As an agent, 'Peggy' nurtured the talents of several generations of writers, among them, John Arden, Edward Bond, David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff and Caryl Churchill.
With a new foreword by Stewart Pringle, Playwright and Dramaturg of the National Theatre of Great Britain.
Winner of the 1997 Theatre Book Prize
Peggy Ramsay was the most admired British play agent of the twentieth century. With a matchless ability to visualise a play just by reading it on the page, she set up in 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 central.
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 was worthless.
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Winner of Theatre Book Prize 1997.
Foreword
1 Under African Skies
Roots Parents Birth Childhood Education Marriage
2 If Its Tuesday, It Must Be Macbeth
In England Separation Touring Opera Acting Bill Roderick Bristol
Old Vic Q Theatre Becoming an Agent
3 Opening Gambit
Starting Out First Year John Holmstrom Peter Hall and Waiting for Godot
Eugčne Ionesco Robert Bolt
4 Iron In The Soul
New Landscape John Osborne Ann Jellicoe John Mortimer Peters and
Ramsay Michael Codron Michael Meyer The Arts Theatre James Saunders
Charles Wood Henry Livings Northerners Alan Plater David Mercer
David Rudkin Peter Nichols Alan Ayckbourn
5 Tie Ruffian On The Stair
Frank Marcus Joe Orton Kenneth Halliwell
6 Queen Bee
Independence Attempted Takeovers In Brighton In the Office Visiting
Peggy Views on Talent, Writers, Partners, Sexuality Jean Rhys
7 At Court
Christopher Hampton the Royal Court George Devine William Gaskill
Oscar Lewenstein Edward Bond Caryl Churchill Max Stafford-Clark
8 For the Love of Talent
Subsidised Theatre Commissioning Hampstead Theatre Club RSC and NT
the Fringe Steve Gooch Censorship Anti-Apartheid Mustapha Matura
Martin Sherman John McGrath John Arden and Margaretta DArcy Willy
Russell Stephen Poliakoff Wallace Shawn David Hare
9 Memento Mori
Illness Last Years Death of Bill Roderick Fire Peggys Death New
Firm Foundation Tribute
Notes
List of Clients
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 Kenneths 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. Peggy to Her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, play agent was published to critical acclaim in 2018.
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