Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

At the vanguard of the movement were directors Tony Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, writers Arnold Wesker and Ann Jellicoe, and actors Alan Bates and Rachel Roberts — all of whom coalesced ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

Although she was later to become a dame, as well as being Lady Olivier, Joan Plowright originally rose to fame playing the bolshie daughter of working-class farm workers in Arnold Wesker’s play ...

The play, second of the Wesker trilogy, was presented by the English ... (AP Photo/Julie Markes, File) FILE - Actor Laurence Olivier, center, with his wife Joan Plowright, left, and actress ...

Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London ...

Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier ... 1960. The play, second of the Wesker trilogy, was presented by the English stage company and opened at the Royal Court ...