Veteran of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop Murray Melvin

16th February 2007

 

INTERVIEW: MURRAY MELVIN

The veteran actor and member of Joan Littlewood’s legendary Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East talks to Aleks Sierz about classic stagings such as A Taste of Honey, The Hostage and Oh What a Lovely War, as well as his new book, The Art of the Theatre Workshop (Oberon).

Their credo was to present the best of European and world theatre, and they did it all on tuppence ha’penny – they had so little money.