British playwright. She started her playwriting career at the Royal Court, London. She had responded to a call from the London listings magazine, Time Out, for readers to send in plays, but the play that she sent in was rejected. However, she was given some encouragement and she wrote a second play, Ripen Our Darkness which was produced by the Royal Court in 1981 She has also had plays performed at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre, and the Albany Theatre in South London. She was the first woman to have a lesbian play, Neaptide, staged at the Royal National Theatre, (1986), when it was performed there in its Cottesloe Theatre. Although she has completely by-passed the fringe theatre, none of her plays to date have transferred to the West End. Her play Neaptide won the 1982 George Devine Award. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work Ripen Our Darkness, 1981. Masterpieces, 1983. The Devil's Gateway, 1983. Neaptide, 1984. Byrthrite, 1987. The Gut Girls, 1988. Beside Herself, 1990. Head-rot Holiday. Daniels Plays: One, 1991, a book published by Methuen. Includes the plays Ripen Our Darkness, The Devil's Gateway, Masterpieces, Neaptide, and Byrthrite. The Madness of Esme and Shaz, 1994. Daniels Plays: Two, 1994, a book published by Methuen. Includes the plays The Gut Girls, Beside Herself, Head-rot Holiday, and The Madness of Esme and Shaz. Blow Your House Down, (based on the novel by Pat Barker). Purple Side Coasters, 1995. Commissioned by BBC Radio and broadcast on 16th. November, 1995. Published in Lizbeth Goodman, (editor), (2000), "Mythic Women/Real Women: Plays and Performance Pieces by Women, Faber and Faber, 388 pages, ISBN 0-571-19140-1 (paperback), pages 197-239. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography Sandra Freeman, (1996), "Putting Your Daughters on the Stage: British Lesbian Theatre from the 1960s to the Present (Sexual Politics)". Lizbeth Goodman and Jane de Gay, (1996), "Feminist Stages: Interviews with women in contemporary British theatre", Harwood Academic Publishers, 330 pages, ISBN 3-7186-5872-0 (hardcover)/3-7186-5882-8 (softcover), pages 99-102.
