Abstract
In 1944, when drama of the théâtre de boulevard in London was ir something of a rut and music hall was a declining art, S. L. Bethell wrote:
It is to the despised popular theatre that we must look for a revival of the drama, since only there do the rudiments survive of an appropriate psychological situation.1
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John Arden, Three Plays (Harmondsworth, 1964) p. 101. References are to this edition. In the first production, at the Royal Court Theatre, Margaretta D’Arcy played Rosie; Wilfred Lawson — Sailor Sawney; Robert Shaw — Blackmouth; Francis Cuka — Daffodil; and; appropriately, in the light of things to come, the Police Sergeant was played by Stratford Johns. The play was directed by George Devine and Anthony Page. A. L. Lloyd set and sang the ballads.
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Davison, P. (1982). The Contemporary Scene. In: Contemporary Drama and the Popular Dramatic Tradition in England. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05177-9_4
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