caa a22 4500 388093544 CHVBK 20180307125258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00012604 doi S0266464X00012604 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00012604 Holdsworth Nadine ‘They'd Have Pissed on My Grave': the Arts Council and Theatre Workshop [Elektronische Daten] [Nadine Holdsworth] It has become a critical commonplace to contrast the relative generosity of the early Arts Council towards establishment institutions with its miserliness towards Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, as the company struggled to survive through the immediate post-war period of touring and then to establish itself with a degree of security at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. In this article, Nadine Holdsworth complements evidence that has before been mainly anecdotal with material from the archives both of the company and the Council, and traces the mutual suspicions that were later also to undermine support for Littlewood's ‘Fun Palace' in the 'sixties. She documents also the ironic loosening of the funding purse-strings at the very moment when Theatre Workshop's run of West End transfers depleted its energies at its Stratford base - and forced it also to return a percentage of its hard-won profits to Arts Council coffers. Nadine Holdsworth lectures in Theatre Studies at De Montfort University. She contributed an article to NTQ49 (1997) on ‘Good Nights Out: Activating the Audience with 7:84 (England)'. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/1(1999-02), 3-16 0266-464X 15:1<3 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012604 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012604 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Holdsworth Nadine NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/1(1999-02), 3-16 0266-464X 15:1<3 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge