Theatre Royal, Stratford

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Performance of text Shelagh Delaney
SD 's first play, A Taste of Honey, opened at the Theatre Royal , Stratford East, in London's East End, produced by Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Workshop .
Delaney, Shelagh. A Taste of Honey. Methuen, 1959.
prelims
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text Ruth Fainlight
All Citizens are Soldiers had been produced in London two years before this at Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Royal, Stratford East , in East London.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Timeline

17 December 1884: The Theatre Royal, Stratford, East London,...

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17 December 1884

The Theatre Royal , Stratford, East London, opened with its manager Charles Dillon in the lead role.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Theatre Royal, Stratford. http://www.stratfordeast.com/.

2 February 1953: Theatre Workshop (founded in 1945 in the...

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2 February 1953

Theatre Workshop (founded in 1945 in the north of England) opened at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East (in the East End of London), under the direction of Joan Littlewood .
Theatre Royal, Stratford. http://www.stratfordeast.com/.
Ezard, John, and Michael Billington. “Obituary: Joan Littlewood”. Guardian Unlimited, 23 Sept. 2002.

February 1959: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical...

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February 1959

Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'be, a musical about gangsters, molls, and tarts, was created by formerly criminal writer Frank Norman , composer Lionel Bart , and the company at Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Royal, Stratford East .
“Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be”. The Guide to Musical Theatre.

March 1963: The musical Oh What a Lovely War opened at...

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March 1963

The musical Oh What a Lovely War opened at Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Royal, Stratford East . It transferred to Wyndham's in the West End on 29 June, and went on to become a landmark hit.
“Oh! What a Lovely War”. The Guide to Musical Theatre.

September 1964: Liverpool city council provided a grant for...

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September 1964

Liverpool city council provided a grant for the founding of the Everyman Theatre , which became a centre for popular culture and radical play-writing.
Hickling, Alfred. “’You could be watching an exciting new musical while sitting on a bag of cement’”. The Guardian, 8 Sept. 2004, pp. G16 - G17.
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