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East 15 grew from the work of Joan Littlewood 's famed Theatre Workshop , and the school's name acknowledges its debt - Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop was based in Stratford, London , whose postal district is E15. The school was founded by a member of Theatre Workshop, Margaret Walker (also Bury) who ran the school for over 40 years. Much of the Littlewood approach was based upon the theories of Stanislavski , and the company inherited the socially committed spirit of the Unity Theatre movement, which brought many new voices into British theatre for the first time. Theatre Workshop broke new ground, re-interpreting the classics for a modern age, commissioning new plays from socially committed writers, and creating an ensemble capable of inventing new work, such as the now legendary " Oh! What A Lovely War ." Littlewood created a wonderful ensemble, who combined inspired, improvisational brilliance with method, technique, research, text analysis, and the expression of real emotions. Over the years, new training methods were evolved to strip actors of affectations, attitudes, ego trips. The quest was always to search for truth: of oneself, the character, the text. Notable graduates from East 15 include - Alison Steadman; Stephen Daldry; Steven Waddington; Kevin Lloyd; Billy Murray; Gwen Taylor & Oliver Tobias. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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