Theatre workshop : Joan Littlewood and the making of modern British theatre / Robert Leach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leach, Robert, 1942-

Series:

Exeter performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Littlewood, Joan.

Acting--Study and teaching.

Acting.

Acting--Technique.

Physical Description:

xviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2006.

Summary:

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. Theater 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-229) and index.

ISBN:

0859897591

9780859897594

0859897605

9780859897600

OCLC:

76937072