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‘Her anti-establishment position made Joan Littlewood a very necessary enfant terrible of Post-War British Theatre’
(Barnes 1986:141)
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Questions?
Barker, C. (2000) ‘Joan Littlewood’, Hodge, A. (ed.) Twentieth Century Actor Training, New York: Routledge. Pp 113-128.
Barnes, P. (1986) A Companion to Post War British Theatre, London: Croom Helm.
Coren, M. (1984) Theatre Royal: A 100 years of Stratford East, London: Quartet Books.
Elson. J. (1976) Post-war British Theatre, London: Routledge.
Goorney, H. (1981) The Theatre Workshop Story, London: Methuen Ltd.
Holdsworth, N. (2006) Routledge Performance Practitioners: Joan Littlewood, London: Routledge.
Itzen, C. (1980) Stages in the Revolution Political Theatre in Britain since 1968, London: Methuen Ltd.
Shellard, D. (1999) British Theatre since the War, London: Yale University Press.
http://wwnorton.com/college/english/nadrama2p/review_materials/shorthistory/19c-present/postwar.aspx (Accessed: 10/03/2014)
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'Create theatre which would be more dynamic, truthful and adventurous than any bourgeois theatre could produce'
(MacColl 1990:211)
'Theatre must face up to the problems of its time, it cannot ignore the poverty and human suffering which increases everyday. It cannot with sincerity, close its eyes to the disasters of its time...'