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Joan Plowright – a leading actress in British theatre’s post-war class revolution

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par Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across a 60-year stage and screen career. Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation – particularly in terms of her theatrical style, as well as her geographic and class origins.

Raised in a middle-class family in Scunthorpe, northern…

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