JOHN ARDEN Margaretta's life long partner died on March 28th 2012
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JOHN ARDEN Military service: British Army (Intelligence Corps, 1949-50, Lance Cpl.) Wife: Margaretta D'Arcy (actress/playwright, m. 1957, five sons) High School: Sedbergh School, Yorkshire (1944-48) Books: Plays: |
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The Guardian.... To anyone of my generation, the death of playwright John Arden is a bitter blow. His work is rarely seen these days – partly because he fell out badly with the British theatre establishment. But he was one of a quartet of dramatists, including John Osborne, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker, that energised the theatre of the late 1950s. Each was different. But what I loved about Arden was the intoxicating vigour of his language: he wrote a muscular, colourful prose, interspersed with ballad and song, that ricocheted off the walls of the theatre like a ball in a squash court... more
New York Times.......John Arden, a major British playwright of the 1950s and 1960s, whose politically engaged, theatrically inventive and conscience-provoking works were often compared to Brecht’s but have been only intermittently revived and rarely performed in the United States, died on Wednesday. He was 81..... more
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