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Theatre Workshop
Robert Leach
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Description for Theatre Workshop
Hardback. 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. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 33. .
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Performance Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859897594
SKU
V9780859897594
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About Robert Leach
Robert Leach is a theatre scholar and a practising theatre director; he teaches acting at the Cumbria Institute for the Arts; he has taught drama at the universities of Edinburgh and Birmingham. His many successful theatre books have concentrated on revolutionary and political theatre, most recently Makers of Modern Theatre (Routledge, 2004).
Reviews for Theatre Workshop
‘In this definitive study Leach provides answers to these questions. Writing with the needs of Theatre Studies students in mind, he sets the Company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which makes its success so important.’ (Amateur Stage, February 2007) ‘…this must become the major research study, in which Robert Leach unlocks ... Read more