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...abhorrence of war and the inhumanities perpetrated on man by men, two plays, one German and one English, have recently gained acclaim in England. The Rabbit Race, by Martin Walser, and Oh What A Lovely War, produced by the London Theatre Workshop under the direction of Joan Littlewood, offer a contrast in the methods by which members of the cold war generation have tried to excite the conscience of their audience. Utilizing more or less conventional techniques, Walser presents an increasingly somber psychological drama; while Miss Littlewood employs several innovations in a satirical revue which bears a distinct Brechtian influence...
...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...
...more men of Britain died in World War I than in World War II. "It is quite likely," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan, "that when the annals of our theatre in the middle years of the 20th century come to be written, one name will lead all-that of Joan Littlewood. Others write plays, direct them, or act in them. Miss Littlewood alone 'makes theatre...
Unfortunately, however, Littlewood is not back for keeps. After discovering, producing, and directing A Taste of Honey, The Quare Fellow, The Hostage, etc., at her small Theatre Royal in London's lower-class East End, she quit because the commercial theaters of the West End kept drawing away her actors and, worse, forcing her to transfer her productions into longrun, big-time houses in order to survive financially. She is a purist who would like to work for a purist audience rather than for people "whose only thought is whether their tiaras are on straight." She believes in short...
...only await with eagerness the next film of Miss Littlewood and Miss Windsor (the latter's will be Crooks in the Cloister, just completed...