The Lion in Love (play) in 1963. The Lion in Love (play) The Lion In Love is a 1960 play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney. It was her second written play. It was premiered at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry on 5 September 1960 With a cast from the English Stage Company, the play commenced a run at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 29 December 1960. The work has been described as a "follow up" to Delaney's 1958 play A Taste of Honey but did not achieve that earlier play's success. "The Lion in Love" had an Off-Broadway professional run in the
Belgrade Drama Theatre on a Hot Tin Roof", "The Glass Menagerie", "Mother Courage and Her Children", "A View from the Bridge" and other contemporary classics came near the cult status among the theatergoers. Today, BDP works with a repertory artistic company and carries on the tradition created by performances of the classic and avant-garde dramatic literature, whereby it has created and maintained its recognizable style and artistic expression. In the spring of 2003, a thorough reconstruction of the theater building was completed, bringing it to the level of high European standards. Belgrade Drama Theatre The Belgrade Drama Theatre (; abbr. BDP) is a