Jacqueline Rudet

Jacqueline Rudet
Born	(1962-02-12) 12 February 1962 (age 63) London, England
Other names	Magdalene St Luce
Education	Barking College
Occupation	Dramatist

Jacqueline Rudet (born 12 February 1962) is a British dramatist. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Biography

Born in London, England, Jacqueline Rudet (also known as Magdalene St Luce), spent her early years in the Caribbean island of Dominica, before returning to Britain, and studying drama at Barking College. ^[4]

Rudet's play Basin opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 29 October 1985. ^[5] Set in a London flat after a party the night before, the story centring on the friendship between three Dominican women living in London, ^[6] Basin was published in Black Plays, edited by Yvonne Brewster (Methuen, 1987), ^[7] and extracts were included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 1992). ^[8]

Works

• Money to Live. First produced at the Royal Court Theatre, 1984. Published in Plays by Women, Vol. 5, ed. Mary Remnant, Methuen, 1986). ^{[9] [2]}
• Basin. Produced at the Royal Court Theatre, 1985.
• God's Second In Command. First produced at the Royal Court Theatre, 1985. ^[10]
• Take Back What's Yours. First produced at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, 1989.

References

1. Fister, Barbara (1995). "Rudet, Jacqueline". Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 266. ISBN   978-0-313-28988-0.
2. Jacqueline Rudet, Unfinished Histories. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
3. Aston, Elaine (2003). An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre. Routledge. pp. 84–5. ISBN   978-1-134-88225-0.
4. "Jacqueline Rudet". Unfinished Histories. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
5. "Basin". Black Plays Archive. National Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
6. M. Susanna Redondo (Winter 1997). "Realism and the Female Subject in Jacqueline Rudet's Basin". Modern Drama. 40 (4): 477–488. doi:10.3138/md.40.4.477.
7. Brewster, Yvonne, ed. (1987). Black Plays. Methuen Publishing Ltd. ISBN   978-0413157102.
8. Busby, Margaret, ed. (1992). Daughters of Africa. pp. 939–94.
9. "Money To Live". Black Plays Archive. National Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2021.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
10. "God's Second In Command". Black Plays Archive. National Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2021.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

External links

• Black Plays Archive: Jaqueline Rudet ^{[ permanent dead link ]}