6-536: The Meyer-Whitworth Award was a literary prize established in 1991 and awarded from 1992 until 2011 to new British playwrights to help them further their careers. The £10,000 prize, one of the largest annual prizes for play writing in the UK, was funded by the National Theatre Foundation and named in honour of Geoffrey Whitworth and Carl Meyer , both of whom were instrumental in the establishment of
12-614: The Royal National Theatre . From its inception until 2006, the award was administered by Arts Council England . After that, it was administered by the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland . According to the Playwrights' Studio, the award was given to the writer whose play best embodied Whitworth's view that "drama is important in so far as it reveals the truth about the relationships of human beings with each other and
18-699: The history of British theatre. The library he assembled is a large and important collection, now held at the Theatre Museum at Covent Garden. From 1919 until 1948, Whitworth edited the League's magazine, Drama . He was the drama critic of John O'London's Weekly (1922) and the Christian Science Monitor (1923). In 1924–5, he organized the theatre section of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Whitworth
24-484: The world at large", showed promise of a developing new talent, and whose writing displayed an individual quality. The first recipient of the Meyer-Whitworth Award was Roy MacGregor for his play Our Own Kind . This article about a literary award is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Geoffrey Whitworth Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth CBE (7 April 1883 – 9 September 1951)
30-550: Was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an author. His works include a translation of The Legend of Tyl Ulenspiegel (1918) and a novel, The Bells of Paradise (1918). He wrote two notable plays, Father Noah (1918) and Haunted Houses (1934) as well as works on the theatre, The Theatre of my Heart (1930; revised 1938), The Making of a National Theatre (1951) and The Civic Theatre Scheme (1942). Whitworth's wife, Phyllis Whitworth, also worked on behalf of
36-550: Was an English lecturer and author who sought to promote amateur and professional theatre through the formation of the British Drama League , acting as its director for many years. Whitworth was instrumental in the founding of the National Theatre , and served the committee lobbying for this as its secretary. Though not an actor, he was praised by George Bernard Shaw as one of the most important figures in
#119880