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Oh What a Lovely War: the show that shook Britain by Michael Billington

Joan Littlewood's pioneering 1963 musical about the first world war not only changed attitudes towards the conflict, it remade British theatre. As the show gets a loving revival, Michael Billington examines what makes Oh What a Lovely War greatIt was a momentous year. In 1963, we had the Profumo scandal and the first Beatles LP, the National Theatre company was created under Laurence Olivier and the Royal Shakespeare…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM on February 17, 2014

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