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Irene Coates (née Gregory; 23 March 1925 – 18 June 2019) was an English playwright, poet, painter, feminist and environmentalist. She is the author of 14 plays and four books, including Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf?: A Case for the Sanity of Virginia Woolf.
Biography
Irene Coates grew up in a Bohemian family in London. In the 1940s she ran the Cambridge Drama Centre. She wrote 14 plays between 1961 and 1981, which were produced among others by the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed at the Edinburgh Festival. She migrated to Australia in 1982 and was Writer in Residence (drama) at Nepean in 1998. She was the sister-in-law and aunt respectively of the painters Ivon Hitchens and John Hitchens.
Works
Books
- Coates, Irene (1998). Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? A case for the sanity of Virginia Woolf. Rose Bay, New South Wales: Brandl & Shlesinger. ISBN 1876040122.
Plays
- The Wideawakes (1965)
- The Space is Mine
- Self Service
Films
- Irene Coates on Seeing
References
- "Irene Coates". AustralianPlays.org. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- "Irene Coates". Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- "Theatre 1960 | Ariel Music". arielmusic.co.uk.
- "This Space is Mine". AustralianPlays.org. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- "SELF SERVICE". AustralianPlays.org. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
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