Word: littlewood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teeth had been put there by Producer-Director Joan Littlewood in her first theatrical venture since she stormed away from her celebrated theater workshop two years ago in financial frustration. The subject is World War I, and what happens onstage is fractionally reminiscent of a TV documentary-a cumulative and episodic re-creation of the 1914-18 war years, mixing acted vignettes with still pictures flashed on a screen, and spelling out statistical information on a high frieze of light bulbs: 2,500,000 DEAD BY 1916. To say the least, this is unlikely material for live theater...
...Britain sends us a well-made cinema comedy. But Sparrows Can't Sing, which has just opened at the Exeter Theatre in Boston, is something more: not only is it a superlative piece of entertainment, but it is also an "important" film. For it marks the debut of Joan Littlewood as a movie director...
...case you've forgotten, Miss Littlewood is the gal who founded London's Theatre Workshop, where she introduced the works of playwrights like Brendan Behan and shelagh Delaney, trained many performers, and generally ruled over the most vigorous theatrical institution in the city until she suddenly gave it up two years...
...think this is seamy and sordid, you're wrong. It takes only a few minutes to adjust to the spirited and uninhibited Cockney way of life. And Miss Littlewood's touch is anything but heavy. She likes a fast pace, and her crosscutting is unorthodox but effective. Along the way, we are treated to a feast of intriguing cosmopolitan faces, including oldsters and children, Jews and Negroes...
...only await with eagerness the next film of Miss Littlewood and Miss Windsor (the latter's will be Crooks in the Cloister, just completed...