Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a ...

Joan Plowright in an adaptation of Merchant of ... It was Beatie Bryant in Arnold Wesker’s Roots. Beatie had come under the cultural influence of an unseen boyfriend whose failure to turn ...

"Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan." Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker.

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... were directors Tony Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, writers Arnold Wesker and Ann Jellicoe, and actors Alan Bates and Rachel Roberts ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who was one half of ... Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates ...