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Joan Littlewood

JOAN LITTLEWOOD

  (1914 - 2002)
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Sayle Screen Ltd  (estate)

In Memoriam John Littlewood, Theatre Impresario
So. Farewell then Joan Littlewood.
With your Famous cap Set at a Jaunty angle On your head
You were the Face of British Theatre in the Sixties.
Now the Curtain has Come down
and fings ain't wot they used To be.

E. J. Thribb

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below is a list of Joan Littlewood's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Christmas Carol, A         John Bullion         Last Edition [extracts]         Long Shift, The         Oh What A Lovely War         Prince And the Pauper, The         Voyage Of the Chelyuskin         War         World's Apart

Christmas Carol, A

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Based on the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

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Theatre Royal Stratford East, London    09 Dec 1953

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Adaptation

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John Bullion

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Last Edition [extracts]

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written with MacColl

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in "Goorney, Howard & Maccoll ewan (ed.), agit-Prop To Theatre Workshop" M.U.P., 1986   -

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Genre:
Living Newspaper

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Long Shift, The

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Oh What A Lovely War

Oh What A Lovely War
Oh 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 theatre 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 revived by the Royal National theatre in 1998.

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written with the theatre Workshop

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Prince And the Pauper, The

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adapted by ewan MacColl And Joan Littlewood

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3 act adaptation

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Wearing - the London Stage 54.321

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Voyage Of the Chelyuskin

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War

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World's Apart

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The Other Place - Stratford    1986

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Royal Shakespeare Company

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translation

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