Fully annotated student edition of a modern classic Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical
chronicle of the First World War told through the songs and documents of the period. First
performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East London in
1963 it received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. It won the Grand Prix of the
Théâtre des Nations festival in Paris that year and has gone on to become a classic of the
modern theatre. In 1969 a film version was made which extended the play's popular success. The
play is now on the standard reading list of schools and universities around the UK and was
revived by the Royal National Theatre in 1998.
