‘Theatre Workshop Or The Ballad Of Ewan And Joan’ is an audio drama by the playwright, Jane Walker. It celebrates and tells the story of Theatre Workshop, the pioneering theatre company founded by Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood in Manchester in the 1930s. It produced plays such as Shelagh Delaney’s ‘A Taste Of Honey’ and Joan’s ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’. As some of you may know, Joan was Kirsty’s godmother. Kirsty’s mother, Jean joined Theatre Workshop as a choreographer in 1948, eventually marrying Ewan a year later. Kirsty, herself, was in John Newnham Selective Secondary School’s production of ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’ in Croydon in the 1970s.
The cast:
Michael Ashtiany as Ewan MacColl
Francesca Anderson as Joan Littlewood
Charlie Richards as Newsboy and Kenneth Tynan
Tom Rope as Archie Harding and Gerry Raffles
Kathryn Georghiou as Shelagh Delaney and Rosalie Williams
Rebecca Bugeja as Jean Newlove and Avis Bunnage
Jane Walker as Woman
Chris Gregory as Colonel Pennyman
Other voices were played by members of the cast.
Most of the characters in this drama are based on real people who played vital roles in the Theatre Workshop story. However, this drama is a work of fiction and the conversations are imagined based on real events and don’t accurately represent actual conversations or interactions.
You can listen to it using one of the links below.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/episodes/18495128-theatre-workshop-an-audio-drama-by-jane-walker
https://podscan.fm/podcasts/pen-to-print-podcasts-for-aspiring-writers/episodes/theatre-workshop-or-the-ballad-of-ewan-and-joan-write-on-audio-and-friends
https://podtail.com/podcast/alternative-stories-and-fake-realities/-theatre-workshop-an-audio-drama-by-jane-walker/
From Ruby
