Theatre Workshop

Oh What A Lovely War

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Fully annotated student edition of a modern classicOh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. It won the Grand Prix of the Théâtre des Nations festival in Paris that year and has gone on to become a classic of the modern theatre. In 1969 a film version was made which extended the play's popular success. The play is now on the standard reading list of schools and universities around the UK and was reviv… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Littlewood, Joan (Hrsg.) / Lewis, Steve (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4742-2205-1
EAN: 9781474222051
Produktnummer: 18437067
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'395 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 1 colour, 8 page sections

Über den Autor

Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company was set up at the end of the war and started by touring in Wales, the industrial north and Scotland. In 1953 they moved into the Theatre Royal, Stratford, London E15 and remained there for the next eleven years during which time they built up an international reputation. Their best work included classical revivals like Volpone and Edward II and new plays like The Quare Fellow and The Hostage by Brendan Behan, A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney and musical plays like Fings Ain't Wot They Used T' Be by Frank Norman and Lionel Bart.