Peggy

Foreword 1 Under African Skies Roots – Parents – Birth – Childhood – Education – Marriage 2 If It’s 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 – Eugène 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 D’Arcy – Willy Russell – Stephen Poliakoff – Wallace Shawn – David Hare 9 Memento Mori Illness – Last Years – Death of Bill Roderick – Fire – Peggy’s Death – New Firm – Foundation – Tribute” Notes List of Clients