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London Theatre 1
January 14, 2018
The problem with lampooning a serious subject such as war is that it can be seen as disrespectful. Joan Littlewood avoided this all those decades ago with “Oh What a Lovely War” by having a deeply serious intent – to expose the futility of war and lambast the incompetent pursuit of it by British Generals.
British Theatre
January 8, 2018
Another new musical, Miss Littlewood, will debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from 22 June to 4 August, based on the life of legendary theatre director Joan Littlewood. Other highlights of the RSC's 2018 season include Christopher Eccleston and NiamhÃÂ ...
Stratford upon Avon Herald
December 24, 2017
You started with the legendary Joan Littlewood, who has been called 'the mother of modern theatre' and is the subject of a new RSC play next year, what was that like? It was fantastic. It was 1972 and I desperately wanted to get going as an actor, but I couldn't have gone to drama school because we didn'tÃÂ ...
The Stage
December 10, 2017
Then there are the equally remarkable Fun Palaces that pop up all over the country every October, inspired by Joan Littlewood's belief in “the genius in every person”, whatever their age, background and life experience. Fun Palaces are based on the simple and elegant idea that local people curating localÃÂ ...
American Theatre
October 11, 2017
When Josie Rourke was appointed artistic director of Donmar Warehouse in 2012, she was the first woman to run a major theatre in London. ... All but Wylie, who is exclusively a producer, had celebrated freelance directing careers, with stints at the majors—the National, RSC, Royal Court, Bristol Old Vic,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 12, 2017
The third new production in the Royal Shakespeare theatre will be The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Laird and starring David Troughton as Falstaff. Doran said the plays were deliberately three of Shakespeare's most popular as part of a string of RSC initiatives to to encourage a passion forÃÂ ...
American Theatre
August 25, 2017
The Canadian theatre will mount three Shaw plays and host Stephen Fry for Greek-myth trilogy. ... In its 856-seat Festival Theatre, the Shaw Fest will program four works. ... Next will be anti-war musical Oh What a Lovely War, with book by Joan Littlewood, Theatre Workshop, and Charles Chilton.
American Theatre
August 22, 2015
An altogether different sort of theatre director from a previous generation, Joan Littlewood gets mentioned as part of the comprehensive diary that Eyre kept while putting together Changing Stages. “Energetic, knowledgeable, loving” are the three adjectives attributed to Littlewood's longtime colleague, theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 11, 2014
Two and a half years later, in 1961, a news item on the TV announced Joan Littlewood's departure from Theatre Workshop, and you didn't normally see stories about theatre directors on the TV ... When my father, who was the agency producer but no longer in the family home, told me, I didn't hang about.
The Guardian
October 6, 2014
Her prime achievement, I believe, was to demolish the barriers we erect between “popular” and “art” theatre. Joan Littlewood honed her craft as a director tirelessly touring the country with Theatre Workshop from 1945 to 1953. She believed that theatre should both stimulate and entertain: thus you find aÃÂ ...
The Boar
December 31, 1999
To avoid this, here's our guide to the shows which we're looking forward to help you plan your theatre outings of 2018. After 2017 – which saw the openings of Girl ... Miss Littlewood is based on the life on pioneering theatre-maker Joan Littlewood and runs through the summer. Other offerings from StratfordÃÂ ...
Stroud News and Journal
October 31, 2017
Trevor worked with Joan Littlewood, in Oh What a Lovely War and was ... He loved the theatre and was in productions in the West End and with ...
Bromsgrove Advertiser
October 22, 2017
And as if that wasn't enough to whet the theatre-goers' appetites associate director Gregory Doran's 2016 production of King Lear will join the ...
The Arts Desk
October 22, 2017
... time (his first was to Joan Littlewood, the celebrated theatre director). ... between 1958 and 1964 with BBC radio producer Charles Parker, who tried to ... Separately and together, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger were, and ...
Jewish Chronicle (blog)
October 18, 2017
A new voice was speaking, and English theatre was never going to be ... such as Peter Brook, Ken Russell, Joan Littlewood, Anew McMaster, ...
Dorset Echo
October 14, 2017
Fun Palaces is based on an idea by the theatre director Joan Littlewood who in 1961 wanted to create a free community arts centre – a ...
American Theatre
October 10, 2017
All but Wylie, who is exclusively a producer, had celebrated freelance ... Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre. ... Church, Dorothy Atkinson, top agents, production managers, BBC producers. ..... director and founder of the legendary Theatre Workshop, Joan Littlewood.
Express.co.uk
October 8, 2017
This photo goes back to 1971, when Jean [Boht] and I first came together. We had met at Stratford East Theatre at Joan Littlewood's company.
Coventry Telegraph
October 6, 2017
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The Stage
December 31, 1999
Enabling people to glimpse their true potential as theatre artists. ... But I've been inspired by the work of people like Joan Littlewood, Peter ...
Irish Post
December 31, 1999
He then joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and made his stage debut in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow at the Theatre Royal in ...
London Theatre 1
December 31, 1999
Since my last visit to the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Philip Jackson's lovely statue of Joan Littlewood, Mother of Modern Theatre, has settled ...
The Reviews Hub
September 13, 2017
When Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop conceived what was to become their most lasting piece of theatre, the Second World War was still aÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 12, 2017
Equal representation for women in theatre is one of the liveliest ... and troublemaking theatre directors, Joan Littlewood; Aberg will direct a newÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 11, 2017
... which a 19-year-old Delaney sent to Joan Littlewood, asking her to ... the Lord Chamberlain's Office, then the censor for all British theatre.
Morning Star Online
September 9, 2017
The school had developed out of the work of Joan Littlewood's legendary Theatre Workshop, which transformed British theatre by bringing working-classÃÂ ...
Morning Star Online
September 8, 2017
The school had developed out of the work of Joan Littlewood's legendary Theatre Workshop, which transformed British theatre by bringing working-classÃÂ ...
The Times
September 6, 2017
On its way to a four-year run on the West End, it transformed the reputation of the songbook musical, the post-Joan Littlewood Theatre RoyalÃÂ ...
American Theatre
August 25, 2017
The Canadian theatre will mount three Shaw plays and host Stephen ... with book by Joan Littlewood, Theatre Workshop, and Charles Chilton.
Saddleworth Independent
August 25, 2017
PACK UP your troubles with theatre legend Joan Littlewood's ground-breaking First World War satirical musical in the year Britain remembersÃÂ ...
Geek
August 16, 2017
McCoy was starring in the National Theater's production of “The Pied Piper,” when he learned the BBC was on the hunt for a new lead actor toÃÂ ...
Farnham Herald
August 13, 2017
Based on an idea from theatre director Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price, the first Fun Palaces took place in the UK and worldwide inÃÂ ...
LondonTheatre.co.uk
July 27, 2017
It was first performed in London in 1955 with Joan Littlewood in the title role, and six years later, Elizabeth Cutts took on the role inÃÂ ...
Broadway World
July 19, 2017
I think it's so important - you hear that theatre is becoming this thing that ... is her chance to become the next Joan Littlewood or Pina Bausch.
Saddleworth Independent
July 11, 2017
The season opens singing in the trenches on Friday 8 September with Joan Littlewood's ground-breaking First World War musical, 'Oh What AÃÂ ...
The Guardian
May 7, 2017
Success comes in Joan Littlewood's uncompromising Stratford East theatre company where Windsor shows promise as a serious theatre actor.
Flagpole Magazine
April 18, 2017
Circle Ensemble Theatre Co. has finally established a home in the formerly ... used as a community space, with Circle as a professional resident theater company. ... collaborating with the Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop.
The Guardian
March 17, 2017
For a few years she shuttled between Theatre Workshop and the Royal ... Beach married the French-Canadian television producer FrancisÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 11, 2014
Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop: a design for living .... When my father, who was the agency producer but no longer in the family home, toldÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 6, 2014
Joan Littlewood, founder of Theatre Workshop. ... Joan Littlewood honed her craft as a director tirelessly touring the country with TheatreÃÂ ...
Stratford upon Avon Herald
December 31, 1999
Macbeth, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Polly Findlay; ... “Sam Kenyon had been working on this musical on Joan Littlewood… andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Joan Littlewood's darkly satirical first world war musical, performed as a jovial end-of-pier show, comes to the Oldham Coliseum theatre from 8ÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
December 31, 1999
Evelyn Doreen Warburton was born in London, England, and despite her father "hitting the roof" on hearing the news, joined Joan Littlewood'sÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 28, 2017
Now comes the stage version and it retains its fascination, even if it feels over-extended at two and a half hours and is inevitably overshadowed by memories of Joan Littlewood's Oh What a Lovely War. The story is framed by the spectacle of the paper's ...
The Stage
March 24, 2017
Fun Palaces founder Stella Duffy has accused the theatre industry of being "screwed" when it comes to audience diversity.
The Guardian
March 17, 2017
But the theatrical credentials of this bright-eyed, full-voiced pocket dynamo (just five feet tall) were established in the 1960s when she was a stalwart of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at Stratford East, appearing in the premieres of ...
The Stage
March 9, 2017
"I had a strange mixture of confidence and fear, so when I didn't get on to the directors' course I berated one of the panel, Jim Haynes, who was running the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, for not selecting me and he offered me a job. However when I ...
Camden New Journal newspapers website
March 2, 2017
But everything changed after a visit to Stratford East where Joan Littlewood was shaking up the world of drama with her radical Theatre Workshop. Enthralled, he auditioned for a part in her production of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. "Joan told me ...
Architects' Journal
February 1, 2017
... can be adapted to a variety of cultural and recreational functions seems to recall the 'Neo-Babylon' of Constant Niewenhuis, or the Fun Palace of Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood, even if the project was never as radical as the floorless Fun Palace ...
Curbed
January 24, 2017
In the '60s, Price and Joan Littlewood, a famed theater director, devised the Fun Palace, a flexible cultural space that functioned as a giant, mobile world.
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