67-589: Mary Ann "Buzz" Goodbody (25 June 1946 – 12 April 1975) was an English theatre director. Associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for almost all of her short career, Goodbody is remembered for her sometimes politically charged experimental work, and for establishing the RSC's first studio theatre in Stratford, The Other Place . She was the RSC's first female director. Mary Ann Goodbody
134-421: A Victorian-Gothic building seating just over 700 people, opened on 23 April 1879, with a performance of Much Ado About Nothing , a title which gave ammunition to several critics. The Memorial, a red brick Gothic cathedral, designed by Dodgshun and Unsworth of Westminster , was unkindly described by Bernard Shaw as "an admirable building, adaptable to every purpose except that of a theatre." From 1919, under
201-615: A celebration of 'Shakespeare as the world's playwright' working with UK and international arts organisations, and including the Globe to Globe Festival by Shakespeare's Globe. The same year, planning permission was granted by Stratford District Council to reinstate The Other Place . Funding for the new theatre came from a £3 million grant from the Arts Council England, raised through the National Lottery. Funding
268-539: A combination of artistic excellence and quiet husbandry, including a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival (begun in April 2006 in collaboration with other theatre companies) plus a financially successful London season at the Novello Theatre in 2006, Boyd slowly rebuilt the company's fortunes and reputation In 2007 he launched the long-awaited Stratford theatre redevelopments, including construction of
335-605: A directorial award in her honour. Pam Gems created the character of "Fish" in Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi in memory of Goodbody. BBC theatre critic John Elsom wrote that her suicide "robbed the theatre of one of its most promising directors." Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon , Warwickshire, England. The company employs over 1,000 staff and opens around 20 productions
402-543: A minimalist set at The Other Place, playing for 2 hours 15 minutes without an interval. The small, nearly round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters. Both Ian McKellen in the title role and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth received exceptionally favourable reviews. The production transferred to London, opening at the Donmar Warehouse in September 1977 before its further transfer to
469-614: A monumental, year-round operation built around a permanent company, a London base and contemporary work from home and abroad. Looking back, it is difficult to realise just how radical Hall's dream was at the time; or indeed how much opposition there was to the creation of what became officially known in March 1961 as the Royal Shakespeare Company." John Barton had been appointed associate director in January 1960, and
536-616: A new suite of education spaces on Waterside. In 2011, BP began to subsidised the RSC's £5 ticket scheme for 16 to 25-year-olds. In summer 2011 the company undertook a residency in Park Avenue Armory , New York, running a series of performances and an accompanying education programme in partnership with the NYC Department of Education . In 2012, the RSC produced the World Shakespeare Festival,
603-400: A plan for what would become The Other Place studio theatre in Stratford, designed by Michael Reardon to seat 140 people, which opened to a first and highly successful season in 1974. The name chosen for the new studio space was favoured within the company because it implied an alternative theatre, but also because it is a quotation from Hamlet . In August 1976, Nunn staged Macbeth with
670-474: A primary objective. David Addenbrooke wrote of Hall's belief that Shakespeare, more than any other dramatist, needed a 'style', a tradition and unity of direction and acting. On 14 January 1960, Hall's first policy statement as director also proposed the acquisition of a second theatre, in London, to be used as a city outlet for selected Stratford productions. The RSC was formally established on 20 March 1961 with
737-526: A production of The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher (not published until 1634 and thought to be Shakespeare's last work for the stage). It was directed by Barry Kyle . The RSC's costume department is 'the largest in-house costume-making workshop in British theatre' and 'world-renowned'. In 2021, the RSC raised over £8 million for a project to update the costume and prop department. Alistair McArthur, head of costume, called
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#1732781160163804-419: A publicly funded body should do. Goodbody, described by one pundit as "a young and militant lady director", firmly believed that the RSC should be involved in responding to current events. Her 1973 modern dress production of As You Like It was criticised at the time for seeming to be without any distinction between the court and the countryside. She observed of the play: "Hardly anyone seems to do any work:
871-505: A radical scheme aimed at rescuing the RSC from its financial crisis by replacing the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with a crowd-pleasing 'Shakespeare Village' and streamlining the company's performance structure and ensemble principle. None of Noble's plans came to fruition. He left the job, an unhappy man, in March 2003. Michael Boyd then assumed control of the RSC, now burdened with a deficit of £2.8 million. By
938-549: A small auditorium in 1971. At the insistence of Sir Trevor Nunn (who had taken over as artistic director in 1968), the company hired The Place off the Euston Road in London and constructed its own theatre space for an audience of 330, seated on raked wooden benches. Two seasons of plays were staged in 1972 and 1973, none suitable for the Aldwych. In December 1973 Buzz Goodbody , the company's first female director, drew up
1005-617: A teacher and then an education officer for the BBC . Griffiths became chairman of the Manchester Left Club, and the editor of the Labour Party 's Northern Voice newspaper. Gradually he tired of political journalism, began writing plays, and was eventually commissioned by Tony Garnett to provide a script for The Wednesday Play (BBC, 1964–70). The play, "The Love Maniac", was about a teacher, but even though Garnett took
1072-638: A year. The RSC plays regularly in London , Stratford-upon-Avon, and on tour across the UK and internationally. The company's home is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it has redeveloped its Royal Shakespeare and Swan theatres as part of a £112.8-million "Transformation" project. The theatres re-opened in November 2010, having closed in 2007. As well as the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries,
1139-485: Is announced. July 2006 – The Courtyard Theatre opens with a staging of Michael Boyd's Histories. November 2010 – The Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres re-open following their transformation. March 2016 – The Other Place was reinstated as a 200-seat studio theatre. In 1959, while still the director-designate of the Memorial Theatre, Peter Hall announced that the formation of a permanent company would be
1206-467: Is set in real time, i.e. as the real time is 7.27, the clock on the wall of the school room also says 7.27. It subsequently transferred to Broadway, and was later adapted for television by Eyre while he was responsible for Play for Today . Griffiths' reputation at the time was such that Warren Beatty asked him to write a screenplay for a project about the US revolutionary John Reed , which eventually became
1273-569: Is the sole British member theatre of the Union of the Theatres of Europe . In March 2008, the RSC launched a manifesto 'Stand up for Shakespeare', a campaign to promote a positive experience of Shakespeare for children and young people. The tenets of this manifesto, Do It on Your Feet, See It Live, Start It Earlier form the basis of the work of the Education department. In 2010, the RSC opened
1340-480: The 1945 general election is "a not wholly unsympathetic study of a Tory family". He wrote the television serial, The Last Place on Earth (ITV, 1985), and the screenplay for Fatherland (1986) for director Ken Loach . He created a screen adaptation in 1981 for D.H. Lawrence 's novel Sons and Lovers and in 1990, Piano , a stage version of a 1977 film itself based on Anton Chekov 's play, Platonov . Griffiths's Food for Ravens (BBC, 15 November 1997),
1407-582: The Barbican Centre under the auspices of the City of London. The RSC was closely involved in the design of these two venues. In 2002 it left the Barbican after a series of allegedly poor seasons, partly because the then artistic director Adrian Noble wanted to develop the company's touring performances. His decision means the company has no regular London home. The RSC had first tackled its need for
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#17327811601631474-475: The Warwickshire Company of Comedians , agreed to perform it. A surviving copy of the playbill records that the company performed Othello . The first building erected to commemorate Shakespeare was David Garrick 's Jubilee Pavilion in 1769, and there have been at least 17 buildings used to perform Shakespeare's plays since. The first permanent commemorative building to Shakespeare's works in
1541-764: The BP sponsorship is putting a barrier between them and their wish to engage with the RSC". In February 2021, the RSC announced five new members to its board of trustees: Andrew Miller, Amanda Parker, Winsome Pinnock , Justine Themen and Ayanna Thompson . It was announced that Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey would become joint Artistic Directors from June 2023. Their first season was announced on 16 January 2024 commencing from April. The RSC has three permanent theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon: Trevor Griffiths Trevor Griffiths (4 April 1935 – 29 March 2024)
1608-516: The Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci (played by Ben Kingsley ), a central character in the work. In November 1971, her production of a documentary play, The Oz Trial , was first performed. It was derived by David Illingworth from the transcripts of the more than six-month-long obscenity trial of the three editors of Oz magazine. In staging the play, it was claimed by commentators that the RSC had gone beyond what
1675-621: The King & Country Tour. The same year, the Royal Shakespeare Company also opened their first permanent exhibition, entitled The Play's The Thing. On 23 April 2016, the RSC performed a one night extravaganza, called 'Shakespeare Live!'. Broadcast on BBC Two from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, it marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's Death. It involved a collection of Shakespeare scenes and monologues with appearances from David Tennant , Catherine Tate , Dame Judi Dench , Benedict Cumberbatch and even one from Prince Charles . In June 2019,
1742-455: The Night" (2 December 1975). Influenced by the experience of his wife, the latter is concerned with a woman's treatment for breast cancer. In between these two plays came "Absolute Beginners" (BBC, 19 April 1974), in the series Fall of Eagles , which presents a version of events in 1903 involving Lenin and Trotsky . He developed a series about parliamentary democracy, Bill Brand , which
1809-533: The Oscar-winning film Reds (1981), but Griffiths departed from the project before the script was completed and estimated that he had written only 45% of the script for the finished film. Griffiths continued to work in the theatre, gaining success with the touring production of Oi for England (ITV, 17 April 1982). His television play, Country (BBC, 20 October 1981), set just before the Labour victory at
1876-456: The RSC commissioned a completely new edition of Shakespeare's First Folio, titled " William Shakespeare Complete Works" and published by Modern Library . To provide balance, Simon Trowbridge in A Royal Shakespeare Company Book , published in 2017, is highly critical of aspects of the Boyd years, including his decision to redevelop the Royal Shakespeare Theatre as a second Swan Theatre. The RSC
1943-438: The RSC produces new work from living artists. There have been theatrical performances in Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare's day, though the first recorded performance of a play written by Shakespeare himself was in 1746 when Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford Grammar School, organised a charitable production to fund the restoration of Shakespeare's funerary monument . John Ward 's Birmingham -based company,
2010-528: The RSC to take over from Hands as artistic director and chief executive. The company had serious funding problems. Noble's decision to sever all RSC connections with the Barbican Centre, funded by the Corporation of the City of London, was widely condemned, and towards the end of his tenure things began to go terribly wrong, partly through his pursuit and support of the so-called Project Fleet ,
2077-404: The RSC when the company opened The Swan , its third theatre in Stratford. The Swan Theatre, also designed by Michael Reardon , has a deep thrust stage and a galleried, intimate 450-capacity auditorium. The space was to be dedicated to playing the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries, the works of European writers and the occasional work of Shakespeare. The theatre was launched on 8 May 1986 with
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2144-455: The RSC's studio theatre The Other Place . In 1973, she worked with Trevor Nunn on his season of Shakespeare's Roman plays. In December, she sent a memo to Nunn, then the RSC's artistic director, arguing for a "studio/second auditorium" aimed at the local population who she thought were "notoriously hostile to us". The proposal was accepted and in the following year she became an associate director, in charge of The Other Place . The Other Place
2211-463: The RSC. A feminist involved in the Women's Movement, Goodbody was a founding member of the Women's Street Theatre Group in 1970, along with another theatre director, Lily Susan Todd. Michèle Roberts , later a novelist, was also involved. The group was committed to "telling people who don’t know’" about the movement's agenda performing in locations like markets and shopping malls. Goodbody and others from
2278-429: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Terry Hands and actor Alan Howard had a marathon year working on Henry V , a virtually uncut, Henry VI, part 1 , Henry VI, part 2 and Henry VI, part 3 and Coriolanus . And the action at The Other Place included Jonson, Ford, Musset, Gems and Rudkin. No other company in the world could match that output for quantity and quality". Nunn and Hands were joint artistic directors of
2345-465: The actor Mark Rylance resigned from the RSC over its sponsorship deal with oil company BP . In October 2019, the RSC announced that it would be ending its partnership with BP at the end of year following criticism of its association with the oil company. A week before, school students threatened to boycott the theatre company if it did not sever links with the firm. A spokesperson for the RSC explained that "Young people are now saying clearly to us that
2412-543: The actors in her production, the reviewer Peter Thomson was of the opinion that, "they meant what they said" and Goodbody had "coaxed the play into their hands and they respected it". Her production of King Lear ran in New York to a positive reviews. Goodbody died by suicide at her home in Islington on 12 April 1975, aged 28, shortly after her production of Hamlet had opened. The National Student Drama Festival named
2479-583: The appointment was not quite as positive as it seemed, but Goodbody reassured herself that it was at least a foot in the door at the RSC. As well as undertaking research for Barton, she also served as a dramaturg for Terry Hands , and officially became an assistant director from 1969. She became involved in Theatregoround, a project to develop smaller-scale productions of Shakespeare, which included her productions in Stratford of King John , which
2546-695: The attention of Kenneth Tynan , the literary manager of the National Theatre Company who promptly commissioned Griffiths to write the play that became The Party . This critique of the British revolutionary left featured the National's artistic director Laurence Olivier in his last stage role as the Glaswegian Trotskyist John Tagg. Griffiths had by now begun to write television plays, such as "All Good Men" ( Play for Today , BBC, 31 January 1974) and "Through
2613-478: The brunt of media hostility during a difficult few years for the company. Hands took the decision to suspend the RSC's residency at The Barbican Theatre and The Pit during the winter season of 1990–91, thus vacating the capital for the first time in 30 years. This was seen as essential if the RSC was to secure an increase in subsidy from the Arts Council. Shortly after that decision Adrian Noble returned to
2680-685: The commission with him when he moved to London Weekend Television and formed Kestrel Productions, it was never produced. Buoyed by Garnett's enthusiasm and influenced by the Paris events of May 1968 , he wrote Occupations , a stage play about the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and the Fiat factory occupations of 1920s Italy. The play had been submitted to the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) as early as 1964, but had then been rejected as being "too controversial". Following its premiere in Manchester
2747-523: The company's sole Artistic Director and Chief Executive (in 1978 he began to share power with Terry Hands). In London, the company opened a new studio space at the Donmar Warehouse with plays by Barker, Taylor, Bond and Brecht. Its Aldwych repertory combined the usual Stratford transfers with Nichol 's Privates on Parade , Ibsen's Pillars of the Community and Brecht's The Days of the Commune . At
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2814-431: The corporation and the Stratford theatre becomes 'Royal Shakespeare.' 1974 – The Other Place opened, created from a prefabricated former store/rehearsal room in Stratford. 1986 – The Swan Theatre opened, created from the shell of the 1879 Memorial Theatre. 1991 – Purpose-built new Other Place, designed by Michael Reardon, opens. September 2004 – The vision for the renewal of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre transformation
2881-464: The direction of William Bridges-Adams and after a slow start, its resident New Shakespeare Company became one of the most prestigious in Britain. The theatre received a royal charter of Incorporation in 1925, which gave it status. On the afternoon of 6 March 1926, when a new season was about to commence rehearsals, smoke was seen. Fire broke out, and the mass of half-timbering chosen to ornament
2948-425: The direction of Sir Barry Jackson in 1945, Anthony Quayle from 1948 to 1956 and Glen Byam Shaw 1957–1959, with an impressive roll-call of actors. Scott's building, with some minor adjustments to the stage, remained in constant use until 2007 when it was closed for a major refit of the interior. Timeline: 1932 – New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens, abutting the remains of the old. 1961 – Chartered name of
3015-641: The group were arrested in London during the Festival of Light in 1971. Their counter demonstration featured a tableau in which were displayed placards saying "Fuck the F*mily". Goodbody was fined. Goodbody directed Trevor Griffiths ' Occupations in 1971 at The Place , a venue off the Euston Road in London then being used by the RSC. Goodbody though was accused by some on the Left of "romantic idolisation" of
3082-469: The interior provided dry tinder. By the following morning the theatre was a blackened shell. The company transferred its Shakespeare festivals to a converted local cinema. Fund-raising began for the rebuilding of the theatre, with generous donations arriving from philanthropists in America . In January 1928, following an open competition, 29-year-old Elisabeth Scott was unanimously appointed architect for
3149-420: The larger Young Vic venue for a two-month season. It was also recorded for transmission by Thames Television . In 2004, members of the RSC voted Dench's performance the greatest by an actress in the history of the company. Summing up this triumphant period, The Guardian critic Michael Billington later wrote: "[In 1977] the RSC struck gold. This was, in fact, the perihelion of Trevor Nunn's ten-year reign as
3216-582: The meantime, Griffiths had continued to write for the theatre with Comedians commissioned by the Nottingham Playhouse . The premiere production of the play was directed by Richard Eyre , then artistic director of the Nottingham theatre, and was first performed on 20 February 1975. Comedians is set in a Manchester night-school, where a group of budding comics gather for a final briefing before performing to an agent from London. The play
3283-484: The new theatre which became the first important work erected in the United Kingdom from the designs of a female architect. George Bernard Shaw commented that her design was the only one that showed any theatre sense. Her modernist plans for an art deco structure came under fire from many directions but the new building was opened triumphantly on William Shakespeare 's birthday, 23 April 1932. Later it came under
3350-569: The old working space "Dickensian" and added, "If we knew there was rain coming we'd have to clear everything off the table the night before." The prop-makers design and make many of their own props for the many productions. A 'Prop Shop' in Stratford-upon-Avon is the studio in which most of the props are made. Nunn (who had been appointed to follow Hall's tenure at the National Theatre in 1968) ceded his RSC executive directorship in 1986 to his co-artistic director Terry Hands , who bore
3417-400: The previous year, the eventual RSC production in 1971 of Occupations , Griffiths first full-length stage play, was directed by Buzz Goodbody . Intending to affect "bourgeois theatre" with his viewpoint, Griffiths described his approach as being "committed to analysing Marxism and to condemn Stalinism without discrediting socialism in the eyes of the world". The play soon brought him to
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#17327811601633484-561: The royal announcement that the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre would henceforth be known as the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the company as the Royal Shakespeare Company. The critic Michael Billington , summarising these events, wrote: "In 1960 the twenty-nine-year-old Peter Hall formally took charge at Stratford-upon-Avon and set about turning a star-laden, six-month Shakespeare festival into
3551-407: The shepherds and shepherdesses ... are not really country people. I see them as art college students — drop-outs who live in the country and have mummies and daddies in town with large incomes". It was a feminist interpretation, with Eileen Atkins in the lead as Rosalind, and Richard Pasco as Jacques. It was a popular production with audiences. Goodbody played an instrumental role in establishing
3618-627: The sole subsidised company operating in London. Following a deal with Prince Littler , managing director of Associated Theatre Properties, the RSC established the Aldwych Theatre as its London base for productions transferred from Stratford to London, its stage redesigned to match the RST's apron stage. Twenty years later, in the summer of 1982, the company took up London residence in both the Barbican Theatre and The Pit studio space in
3685-488: The spirit of our new universities, if not the 1960s – that [he] decided to put her in a [never-completed] book". In September 1967, she married Edward Buscombe, a University of Sussex film student; the marriage ended in divorce in 1971. Goodbody first joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1967 as director John Barton 's personal assistant, after he had been impressed by a London performance of Notes from Underground . Some tasks Barton initially gave her suggested that
3752-671: The temporary Courtyard Theatre while work was in progress, designed to house his RSC Histories cycle before its transfer to the Roundhouse in London in 2008. Talking of these achievements with typical modesty he told the Evening Standard in December 2007 ('The Man Who Remade the RSC'): "There was a bit of gardening to do, but we are now beginning to show signs of walking the walk." 'The Histories' ensemble went on to win three Olivier awards in 2009. In addition, that same year
3819-464: The town was a theatre built in 1827, in the gardens of New Place, but has long since been demolished. The RSC's history began with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which was the brainchild of a local brewer, Charles Edward Flower. He donated a 2-acre (0.81 ha) site by the River Avon and in 1875 launched an international campaign to build a theatre in the town of Shakespeare's birth. The theatre,
3886-952: Was also received from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation , The Backstage Trust, and from public donations; this is the final phase of the Transformation project. Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, a new project to broadcast the company's productions in cinemas around the world and stream them into schools was announced in May 2013. The project began with Shakespeare's Richard II , starring David Tennant , in November 2013, and followed up with Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 2014. In February 2016, Artistic Director Gregory Doran's productions of Henry IV Part I and Henry IV Part II , and Henry V went on tour in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong as part of
3953-527: Was also seen at the Roundhouse in London, and the Elizabethan play Arden of Faversham , now attributed in part to Shakespeare, in 1970. According to Colin Chambers the production of the rarely performed King John was "much maligned but hugely entertaining". Peter Brook thought the production had "vigour" and was "full of life, energetic, disrespectful". She was the first female director to work for
4020-463: Was an English dramatist. Born in Ancoats , Manchester and brought up as a Roman Catholic by his mother, Annie, a bus conductor and father, Ernest, who worked in a factory. He attended St. Bede's College before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English. He graduated in 1955. After a brief involvement with professional football and a year in national service , he became
4087-625: Was born in Marylebone , London, on 25 June 1946. She was raised in St John's Wood and Hampstead , and gained her nickname as a toddler as a consequence of her very active and curious inclinations. Her father was a barrister who spent a considerable amount of time in Africa and the Far East, with the result that Goodbody and her brother were largely brought up by their mother and nanny. Goodbody
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#17327811601634154-524: Was commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of Aneurin Bevan 's birth, but at one point the BBC decided not to network the play, and instead restrict it to Wales . Only a newspaper campaign led by Griffiths and the leading actor Brian Cox caused the BBC to relent, and it was finally shown in a late-night slot on BBC2 . In November 2008 Griffiths participated in a discussion on "The Writer and Revolution" with
4221-549: Was educated at Roedean and the newly founded Sussex University . A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from the age of 15, according to her brother, she was very much against applying for a place at Oxford or Cambridge. Acting in university student productions was frustrating for her. She once noted "All the best roles" – those she found interesting such as the lead in Henry V – "are written for blokes"; this
4288-479: Was first shown by ITV in the summer of 1976. Despite his considerable success in the theatre, he said of his work as a television dramatist in 1976: "I simply cannot understand socialist playwrights who do not devote most of their time to television... [t]hat if for every Sweeney that went out, a Bill Brand went out, there would be a real struggle for the popular imagination... [a]nd people would be free to make liberating choices about where reality lies." In
4355-533: Was followed in 1962 by Michel Saint-Denis , Peter Brook and Clifford Williams who joined the company as resident directors. John Bury was appointed head of design in 1964. The repertoire was also widened to take in modern work and classics other than Shakespeare. In 1962, strong opposition to the establishment of a London base for the RSC came from the Royal National Theatre which – led by Viscount Chandos and Laurence Olivier – wished to be
4422-409: Was put forth as an alternative and more experimental venue than the larger Royal Shakespeare Theatre . There, Goodbody staged King Lear (1974) and Hamlet (1975). Of the latter, The Times theatre critic Irving Wardle wrote: "an astounding revelation of the most excavated play in the world, ranking with Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream as the key classical production of the decade". Of
4489-781: Was the catalyst that led her towards directing plays as a career. While at Sussex, where the main component of her degree was English Literature, she adapted and staged Dostoyevsky 's novella Notes from Underground as part of her honours thesis. This production won an award at the National Student Drama Festival , and was staged briefly at the Garrick Theatre in the West End . The Sunday Times contributor Hunter Davies recalled interviewing Goodbody in 1966. He "found her so fascinating, remarkable, outspoken, opinionated – someone who seemed to sum up
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