| Theatre Workshop Contributor(s): Leach, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0859897605 ISBN-13: 9780859897600 Publisher: University of Exeter Press OUR PRICE: $33.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: This book 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, heir to the Workers Theatre Movement of the 1930s, was born in the optimism of post-war Labour Britain; highly politically motivated, the company attempted to create radical political theatre, which it aimed to take directly to working class communities. In the course of its political mission, and to further its own appeal, the company were the first British group to systematically apply the ideas of Stanislavsky and Laban to their acting practice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 792.094 |
| LCCN: 2007273201 |
| Series: Exeter Performance Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.33" W x 9.1" (0.97 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |