At a rehearsal for Arnold Wesker’s Roots at the Royal Court Credit: Bob Dear/AP An elfin figure (who later became imperiously plump) with glittering black eyes, a turned-up nose, self-mocking ...

At the vanguard of the movement were directors Tony Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, writers Arnold Wesker and Ann Jellicoe, and actors Alan Bates and Rachel Roberts — all of whom coalesced ...

Although she was later to become a dame, as well as being Lady Olivier, Joan Plowright originally rose to fame playing the bolshie daughter of working-class farm workers in Arnold Wesker’s play ...

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

One of Batman's most tragic villains has just embarked upon a whole new life for herself, and it is even more unsettling than ...

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

In 1959, she played the lead in Roots by east London’s Arnold Wesker at Coventry’s Belgrade and London’s Royal Court and West End. In 1960, she starred in the award-winning Broadway run of A Taste of ...

in Arnold Wesker’s Roots, or the malcontent teenager Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey (on Broadway). The bursting through of a new generation, often from marginalised, under-represented, and ...

William Wycherley’s The Country Wife was her first success at the Royal Court and, over several years, she starred in plays as diverse as Arnold Wesker’s Roots, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible ...

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. “I’ve been ...

Arnold Wesker, Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. Many of the people she worked with “were the product of a free and better educational system and state scholarships to Oxbridge [Oxford and Cambridge ...