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Oh What A Lovely War

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Oh What A Lovely War

Contributors:

By (Author) Theatre Workshop
Edited by Joan Littlewood
Edited by Steve Lewis

ISBN:

9780413775467

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Methuen Drama

Publication Date:

19th January 2006

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Dewey:

812.54

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

224

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm

Weight:

200g

Description

Fully annotated student edition of a modern classic



Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. It won the Grand Prix of the Thtre des Nations festival in Paris that year and has gone on to become a classic of the modern theatre. In 1969 a film version was made which extended the play's popular success. The play is now on the standard reading list of schools and universities around the UK and was revived by the Royal National Theatre in 1998.

Author Bio

Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company was set up at the end of the war and started by touring in Wales, the industrial north and Scotland. In 1953 they moved into the Theatre Royal, Stratford, London E15 and remained there for the next eleven years during which time they built up an international reputation. Their best work included classical revivals like Volpone and Edward II and new plays like The Quare Fellow and The Hostage by Brendan Behan, A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney and musical plays like Fings Ain't Wot They Used T' Be by Frank Norman and Lionel Bart.

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