{"product_id":"penguin-modern-classics-trio-by-joan-littlewood-and-collaborators","title":"'Penguin Modern Classics Trio' by Joan Littlewood and Collaborators","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"1009\"\u003eThis small set captures a particularly volatile moment in British theatre during the 1960s and early 70s, when the stage shifted away from polite drawing-room drama toward something sharper, stranger, and openly political.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1497\"\u003eEdward Bond’s Saved became notorious for its brutal depiction of working-class violence, forcing the British censorship system to confront the limits of what could be shown on stage. Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War dismantles patriotic mythology through songs, satire, and documentary fragments, turning the First World War into a savage theatrical cabaret. Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, meanwhile, brings anarchic farce to the collapsing moral order of postwar Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1591\"\u003eTaken together, the three plays map the moment when British theatre stopped behaving itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1591\"\u003eSold as a trio only.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44183594238035,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics-2026-03-12T140016.976.png?v=1773284515","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/penguin-modern-classics-trio-by-joan-littlewood-and-collaborators","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}