Word: littlewood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hitchcock fans, A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt opened at the Loeb last night. Also at the Loeb beginning this evening, will be Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. Thursday evening will mark the opening of Oh, What A Lovely War by Joan Littlewood in Agassiz which is produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club Summer Players, and directed by the honorable Timothy S. Mayer...
...presently planned, the plays will include a double bill of Jean Genet's Deathwatch, directed by Mayer, and The Maids, directed by Babe; Gerry Raffles' and Joan Littlewood's musical, Oh What a Lovely War!; and, tentatively, the American premiere of the anti-war drama Saints' Day, by the British playwright John Whiting...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR (London). Into the quicksands of death march the mind-forsaken legions of Joan Littlewood's bitter, brittle, bizarre, tragicomic descant on the asininity and hapless gallantry of World War I. The show's sentimental ballads and parade-ground tempos are coated with steely irony; the weapons are not Krupp's but Brecht...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Joan Littlewood and her troupe mock and grieve over the senselessness and tragedy beneath the uniforms and military doubletalk of World War I. It is a scorching, fascinating evening in the theater...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musi cal entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of World War I. Joan Littlewood and her adroit London Theater Workshop company have done it. The result is hilarious, ironic, heartwarming and heartbreaking...