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6 unusual facts about Theatre Workshop


Arden of Faversham

In 1955 the play was performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Paris International Festival of Theatre as the English entry.

Drama Centre London

The school's work also draws on the English tradition, particularly that of Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop.

Encore Theatre Magazine

It was not an ideologically-driven magazine; it was not consistent; it admired the Royal Court, Theatre Workshop, Ionesco, Arden, and Tynan, and it often attacked all of these.

James McNeish

He worked in the Theatre Workshop in London with Joan Littlewood, and was influenced by her spirit of socially committed drama.

Robin Chapman

Chapman began his career as an actor at Cambridge (he played Hamlet in the ADC’s centenary production and was president of the Marlowe Society) before holding a spear at Stratford-Upon-Avon, working in repertory and then joining Joan Littlewood’s revolutionary Theatre Workshop where he turned to writing.

Sorrel Carson

ALRA was unique in it curriculum in that it combined classic theatrical training with both the ensemble modernist approach of Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and acting for camera.


Donald Albery

Though always commercially minded, his spirit of adventure endured with the first London production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and sponsorship of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop.

Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

It was first produced and directed by Littlewood in February 1959, at her Theatre Workshop, based in the Theatre Royal Stratford East.


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Avis Bunnage

Among her other roles for Theatre Workshop were Mrs. Lovitt in Christopher Bond's play Sweeny Todd (the basis for the Sondheim musical), and the title role in a play about the music hall legend Marie Lloyd.

D. D. Jackson

An alumnus of the Lehman Engel BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Jackson's theatre work includes the opera Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path on the former Canadian Prime Minister and the musical-comedy Depressed, Depressed written with Chicago City Limits veteran Carl Kissin.

Ishita Arun

She participated in a children’s theatre workshop conducted by Nadira Babbar, at the age of nine, and worked with Gullan Kriplani for a morning series called Science Basics.

Jeraldyne Blunden

Her experiences included performances and classes at American Dance Festival, Antioch Summer Theatre, Connecticut Dance Theatre Workshop, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and The Alvin Ailey Dance Center.

Liz Harris

In July 1968, she also performed at St. Martin's Theatre with Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood and Ted Allen in a London Theatre Workshop stage production of Oh, What a Lovely War!.

Oh What a Lovely War

Oh, What a Lovely War! - a stage musical created in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop

Peshkar Productions

It was directed by Jim Johnson, produced by Bryan Savery and starring Yamina Peerzada from the Rafi Theatre Workshop of Pakistan as Zuhleikah, taking over from Poppy Jakhra from the production's original tour the previous year.

Prairie Theatre Exchange

In 1972-1973, MTC shut down the school, and a group spearheaded by Colin Jackson and Charles Huband founded the Manitoba Theatre Workshop (MTW) to take its place.