The Big Life review — exuberant Windrush musical hits the spot
Theatre Royal Stratford East, E15
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Theatre Royal Stratford East, E15
Neil Kinnock writes: He let the theatre do the work of enlightenment and emancipation
Artistic director of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and tireless campaigner against cuts to arts funding
Philip Hedley, who has died aged 85, was a protégé of Joan Littlewood, the radical founder of Theatre Workshop, a collective that toured shows aimed at working-class audiences and led an extraordinary revolution in British theatre in the 1950s when it took up residence at the Theatre Royal in Stratford, east London.
Clint Dyer leads tributes to director who ran the London venue for 25 years and was a ‘pioneer of diversity in British theatre’