Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and is best...
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of the Theatre Workshop company, famously associated with director Joan Littlewood, whose statue is outside the theatre. The theatre was designed by architect...
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James Booth (section Joan Littlewood)
in Revenge (1971). In 1972, he appeared on stage in The Hostage for Joan Littlewood again. Booth returned to leads in the films Rentadick (1972) and Penny...
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Oh, What a Lovely War! is an epic musical developed by Joan Littlewood and her ensemble at the Theatre Workshop in 1963. It is a satire on World War I...
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Theatre Workshop (section Joan Littlewood (1953–1979))
Theatre Workshop is a theatre group whose long-serving director was Joan Littlewood. Many actors of the 1950s and 1960s received their training and first...
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Can't Sing is a 1963 British kitchen sink comedy, the only film that Joan Littlewood directed. It starred James Booth and Barbara Windsor. It was written...
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his first wife, Joan Littlewood. MI5 caused some of MacColl's songs to be rejected by the BBC, and prevented the employment of Littlewood as a BBC children's...
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cricketer Jessica Littlewood, Canadian politician Joan Littlewood (1914–2002), British actress and theatre director John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), British...
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1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop in 1963. The title is derived from the music...
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2023) was an English actor. He was best known for his acting work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick. He was the author of two books: The...
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Oliver! (1960). With Oliver! and his work alongside theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, he played an instrumental role in...
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Samuel French. ISBN 978-0-573-01789-6. OCLC 26310819. Stephen Lewis Joan Littlewood On the Buses Pitlochry Festival Theatre Reg Varney Theatre Workshop...
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Dublin. It was well received; however, it was the 1956 production at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London, that gained Behan a wider reputation...
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parks and schools. Theater director Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price put the idea forward. Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price came...
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Hanging Rock Joan Littlewood (1914–2002), English theatre director Joan Lunden (born 1950), American journalist, author and television presenter Joan Moriarty...
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Miss Littlewood is a stage musical with music, lyrics and book by Sam Kenyon. It is based on the life of theatre director Joan Littlewood and the formation...
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century by practitioners such as Viola Spolin and son Paul Sills, Joan Littlewood, Clive Barker, Keith Johnstone, Jerzy Grotowski and Augusto Boal. Theatre...
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Jacques Copeau, Edward Gordon Craig, Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski, Augusto Boal, Eugenio Barba, Dario Fo...
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refer to: Oh, What a Lovely War!, a stage musical created in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop Oh! What a Lovely War, a cinematic adaptation...
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professionally as Mrs. Fairfax Potter. Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild (London:...
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she later recalled. At the age of sixteen, Whitelaw met the director Joan Littlewood at the BBC in Manchester and was invited to join her Theatre Workshop...
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in collaboration with his companion, the British theatre director Joan Littlewood) describe a partnership of great passion but also enormous tempestuousness...
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of Into the Woods. Burt starred as theatre director Joan Littlewood in a new musical Miss Littlewood for the Royal Shakespeare Company in summer 2018. Her...
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proprietor of the newspaper. Through his friend, the theatre director Joan Littlewood, Driberg had met Reginald Kray, who in turn introduced Boothby to Ronnie...
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Stanislavski's work made little impact on British theatre before the 1960s. Joan Littlewood and Ewan MacColl were the first to introduce Stanislavski's techniques...
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Bonaventure's, an all-boys secondary school in Forest Gate. He trained in the Joan Littlewood improvisation style as part of the junior group at Theatre Royal Stratford...
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English playwright and theatre director. Ken Hill was a protégé of Joan Littlewood at Theatre Workshop. He was known for his chaotic musicals on the tiny...
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praised, and the piece ran for more than a year. Laye then joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company to play Redhead in a musical adaptation of...
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Theatre Workshop in 1962 and appeared in numerous plays directed by Joan Littlewood including Oh, What a Lovely War! in London, Paris and New York. In...
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