Littlewood, Joan

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.