Theatre Workshop
by Robert Leach
(Paperback) (Published)
(October 2006)
ISBN: 9780859897600
6.1 x 9.17 inches
Price: $33.00
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(Hardback) (Published)
(October 2006)
ISBN: 9780859897594
5.91 x 8.98 inches
Price: $112.00
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Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important.
Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important. Robert Leach has provided the definitive account in this first full-length study of Theatre Workshop and the methods of its director from 1945 to 1965, Joan Littlewood. His book provides the historical and political context needed by theatre studies students (both school and university), who frequently encounter Oh What a Lovely War as part of their courses.
1. Before Theatre Workshop: Politics and Performance, 1930-1945
Class against class
The world of the theatre
Workers' theatre
The challenge of fascism
Slow approach of war
2. Theatre Workshop 1945-1953: Political Theatre
Days of hope
Days of disappointment
The plays of Ewan MacColl
Actor training
3. Theatre Workshop 1953-1956
New Elizabethans
Stratford East
Matters financial
The Theatre Workshop actor
4. Theatre Workshop 1956-1964: Popular Theatre
Never had it so good?
The royal smut hound
New plays
Joan Littlewood, director
Staging the plays
5. After Theatre Workshop: Meanings and Legacy
The final years
Meanings
Legacies.
- By (author) Robert Leach
"In this definitive study Leach provides answers to these questions. Writing with the needs of Theatre Studies students in mind, he sets the Company's aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which makes its success so important." Amateur Stage, February 2007 "...this must become the major research study, in which Robert Leach unlocks the answers to the innumerable questions that practitioners and scholars have asked for the last half century. After Mr Melvin's feeble attempt to define the role of Theatre Workshop's role in society, it is a joy that a great scholar has, in the most accessible way as is more the wont of the archaeologist, unearthed the truths that so many of us, including himself, have sought for so long. An inspiring and compulsive read." Amateur Stage, February 2007 "This study will give both students and academics a clearer picture of a part of British theatre which has not been forgotten entirely, but which has been left unconsidered for perhaps too long." David Pattie, NTQ, Vol. 24/2, May 2008
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