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Tristram Kenton Is our theatre now inescapably middle-class? I ask because I recently took part in a debate on Radio 3's Night Waves about the upsurge in working-class plays and movies that took place in the late 1950s and early 60s. Like my fellow
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Ruthless words A Taste of Honey at The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh There is much that is extraordinary about Shelagh Delaney 's debut play: that it was written by an 18-year-old after watching something by Terence Rattigan and thinking she could do
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Among the many influences on whom she was credited was a fellow Anglo-Irish Mancunian, Morrissey, who as a teenager revelled in her sharply observed dialogue and who later elevated the rainy low horizons above the ship canal, the gas works and the
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Ebullient Katie West in A Taste of Honey at the Crucible, Sheffield. Photograph: Johan Persson Shelagh Delaney's play, the work of an unknown working-class 18-year-old from Salford, was a big hit in 1958 and became a source of inspiration to a new
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Tom Stuttard for the Guardian A major dictionary of theatre on my bookcase, dating from the mid-1990s, doesn't even mention the Salford-born Delaney , who can seen here in Ken Russell's 1960 Monitor film on the writer and her town. The lack of
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News in pictures Arts & Ents blogs YouTube channel UKF is considered to be one of the most important outlets for both dubstep and drum'... Michael Dodman, AKA Huxley, has been making music for years and earlier this year he really made an ... Eric
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Tom Wells is the first to admit he does not belong to the so-called in-your-face, blood-and-sperm school that dominates contemporary English theatre. ''There is a lot of visceral theatre around, with a lot of violence and aggression,'' he says on the
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Powered by FeedBurner Questions/Answers Questions and answers on Daily News stories from readers like you. School of Arts and Architecture, in recognition of his accomplishments and his contributions to the arts and music at the university.
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Along with the widely observed deaths of Amy Winehouse and Gil Scott-Heron, a number of lesser-known musical figures passed away in 2011. They didn't get as much recognition, perhaps, but they made valuable contributions to popular music. Here, 50 of
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Michael Billington's welcome appreciation of Shelagh Delaney 's significance ( A brief taste of success, but this one-hit-wonder broke the mould of British theatre , 22 November) omits, as does your obituary notice, to mention one vital aspect of her
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