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Blue Moon Over Popular

The Play - BITESIZED Research & Presentation Diploma ACTORS B
NIGELPAUL SEP 23, 2021 06:00PM

Todays Task
NIGELPAUL SEP 26, 2021 09:08PM

Initial BITESIZED research

Working in a pair you are to research & post information upon
your set research topic. At the start of next weeks session you'll
feedback to the rest of the company. POST YOUR RESEARCH
UNDER YOUR SECTION. NO POWERPOINTS - You have a
maxium of 3 minutes to informally talk us through as a company.

Teddy Boy/Girl
NIGELPAUL SEP 24, 2021 01:39PM

WILLIAMGREGORY3 SEP 24, 2021 01:40PM

WILLIAMGREGORY3 SEP 30, 2021 06:39PM

The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture

who were interested in rock and roll, wearing clothes partly
ANONYMOUS SEP 24, 2021 01:40PM inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period,
which tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain after
WW2.

WILLIAMGREGORY3 SEP 30, 2021 06:42PM

Immigration & race

SCAZ SEP 24, 2021 01:39PM

SCAZ SEP 27, 2021 11:07AM

Racism and Immigration in the 1950s

shortage of labourers after WW2
english-speaking caribbeans were invited to the UK to
work
racial tensions were rising because UK citizens believed
that black people were taking jobs which could be filled
with white workers
“teddy boy” gangs would travel into black communities to
terrorise its residents

KAYA BALLANTYNE SEP 30, 2021 08:15PM

SCAZ SEP 27, 2021 11:06AM girls in particular were discouraged from listening to rock music
written and performed by black artists. Their mothers, usually,
would show extreme worry and distress over their 'dear
daughters' listening to that kind of music for some reason

Politics
KITTY HART SEP 24, 2021 01:39PM
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Affects of WW2 on Fashion

Due to the war and a very damaged Britain, money and materials
were in short supply. More money was pumped into rebuilding
and clearing wreckages and bomb sites instead of into the
ANONYMOUS SEP 30, 2021 03:24PM
fashion industry. This led to new synthetic fibers being
-in 1951 Winston Churchill resumed his position as prime
developed to reduce the price of clothing and increase their
minister until his resignation in 1955

durability. They were easier to clean and cheap to buy.

-in February 1952, Elizabeth II became queen after her
predecessor King George VI died

-the post-war consensus was a thesis that encouraged strong FIONA MAY SEP 30, 2021 06:12PM
trade unions, high taxes, heavy regulations, a generous welfare
state and nationalisation (the process of transforming private
Women's Fashion
assets into public assets by bringing them under the public French styles were making a great impression on British female
ownership of a national government)
fashion. Designers such as Givenchy, Balenciaga, Aimes and
-in 1951, the Kenya African Union demanded greater Hartnell were among the favourites. 

representation as well as landform which the British government Block colours replaced prints when it came to tailored clothing,
rejected, initiating a rebellion in Kenya in 1952. The country however casual summer dresses were full of multi coloured
moved to a full-scale civil war following the distribution of florals, stripes and spots.

British soldiers to deal with the rebellion Bullet bras were still a popular choice of undergarment despite
being invented in 1941. 

Women's fashion intended to idolise the slim, hourglass figure. It

wasn't designed to be suitable for manual labour.

Fashion, Food, drink & music Skirts were kept below the knee and were either full or slender. 

Tight, three-quarter length capri pants showed off the delicate

FIONA MAY SEP 30, 2021 06:02PM ankles and made the females appear younger. Along with jeans,
Men's Fashion women's pants rose to their natural waistline and was secured
with a tight belt after being zipped at the side.

Men's casual wear consisted of a sport coat, bright shirt, plain

trousers or knee length shorts for summer. 

Their business attire was made to be straight and narrow. While

it was accepted to wear brighter colours outside of the office, it
was an unwritten rule for men to wear dull suits in shades of
grey, brown or blue.

The 1950s got rid of the classic shoulder pad garment for a more
natural shape.
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Music
Popular music in 1950s England included Jazz, Traditional Pop,
Skiffle, Folk Music, Roots Revival and British Rock and Roll.

FIONA MAY SEP 30, 2021 06:20PM Most music in the 50s was dominated by rock and roll, since it
was a powerful new art form of music that combined elements
Food & Drink
of rhythm and blues, R&B, pop and hillbilly music to create a
Due to rationing, the choice of ingredience was very limited. sound that shook the world. 

Food was seasonal, there were no supermarkets or frozen food Al Martino's "Here in My Heart" was the first ever number one
kept in freezers. The only takeaway was from a fish and chip single and maintained the top spot for nine weeks.

shop.
Bill Haley & His Comets had the biggest selling single of the
The 1950s introduced spam fritters, salmon sandwiches, tinned decade with "Rock Around The Clock".
fruit with evaporated milk, fish on Fridays and ham salad every
Sunday for high tea. The only flavouring that could be added was
tomato ketchup or brown sauce.

Olive oil was sold in tiny bottles at the chemist to be used to

loosen ear wax instead of dress a salad. The only available salad
dressing was Heinz Salad Cream. Despite food being seasonal,
Heinz created a range of tinned salads: Potato Salad, Coleslaw
and Vegetable Salad.

Britain was influenced by other countries' cuisine during the

50s. The first Wimpy Bars (from American influence) opened in
Britain in 1954 selling hamburgers and milkshakes.

Chinese migrants from Hong Kong made a living by setting up

Chinese restaurants introducing chop suey and chips into British
culture.
 Wintor evening standard award and the Susan Blackburn award.
Her naked skin premiered at the national theatre in 2008, the
first play with a living female playwright to be staged on the
Oliver. Other plays include the painter (Arcola theatre), the typist
(riverside studios), the lioness (the tricycle), the almost
unnameable lust, Shoreditch Madonna, moon over poplar (Soho
theatre), a soldiers tale (old Vic), invisible mountains (national
theatre education), faeries (royal opera house), Justitia (peacock
theatre) and adaptations of Ibsen's an enemy of the people
(Arcola and Manhattan theatre club) and ghosts (Arcola). For BBC
radio 4: fighting for words, caravan for desire, Sarah and ken
(special commendation for the Tinswood award), Dracula and
the winter house.

ANONYMOUS SEP 26, 2021 11:07AM

Rebecca lenkiewicz review written by Kate Kellaway 2008.

"Hytner got the message. He recognises in Lenkiewicz a

'tremendous gift for dialogue, feel for character and breadth of
imagination, an ability to conjure up an entire world, which
makes this new play, I hope, a natural for the Olivier. The
interplay between an intensely personal, passionate, individual
FIONA MAY OCT 01, 2021 12:34PM story and the larger canvas is what the theatre requires."

ANONYMOUS SEP 30, 2021 08:27PM

Lenkiewicz was born in plymouth, Devon, the daughter of Celia

Mills and Peter Quint, a playwright. Her stepfather is artist
robert lenkiewicz. Her sister is the artist Alice Lenkiewicz and
her brother is the artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, who are both the
children of Robert Lenkiewicz. Her other brothers are Peter
Mills and Thomas Mills.

She attended Hyde park junior school and then Plymouth high
school for girls before progressing to a BA in Film and English at
the University of Kent from 1985 to 1989, then later to a BA
Acting Course at the central school of speech and drama from
1996 to 1999. Initially she worked as an actor at the royal
Shakespeare company and the Royal national theatre, notably in
Sir Peter's hall production of the Bacchae.

The Playwright
ANONYMOUS SEP 26, 2021 11:01AM

Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The night season premiered at the

national theatre in 2004, received the critics' circle most
promising playwright award and was nominated for the Charles
ANONYMOUS OCT 01, 2021 11:58AM

Blue moon over poplar got a 3 star rating from the guardian
news paper as apparently ‘you endow characters with historical
foresight’
But the play has had many good reviews as it was celebrating the
50th jubilee.
‘Rebecca is the best when conveying the period with many
events of the time . She also does a good job of conveying the
insecurities of youth  jackets, riding around in roofless cars with their posse of
The Teenager
ANONYMOUS SEP 30, 2021 06:27PM
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-32-first-
release/modernism-cinema-adolescence-another-history-for-
teen-film/
Teenagers in film history was mainly explored after World War
Two (1950s) and was a Western Emergance of Youth Culture.
Teen Films where often characterised as a Romance, Thriller,
Horror, or Drama, with most being a coming of age story
centered around a clear protagonist, antagonist and a love
interest in modern day teen films.
adults were too lazy, or too embarrassed to properly explain
However, when teens where first introduced, many stories
centered around sexuality, sexual identification, lust, and many
other topics surrounding those parts. These films also
introduced the complexity of moral choices and personal
options, mainly brought forward by Timothy Shary in the 1980s.
Modernism, Cinema, Adolescence:
Another History for Teen Film
I'm allowed to go to picture shows, That
is, if nurse is feeling able; But we only go
to Mickey Mouse, I'm not allowed Clark
Gable! It's such an imposition For a girl
who's got ambition To be an in-between!
SCREENINGTHEPAST
KAYA BALLANTYNE SEP 30, 2021 08:12PM
1950's teenager
The teenager in the 1950’s was a relatively new concept, the
word itself being a new and confusing thing at first. Teenager is
a mesh of the words ‘in between’ and age, as in between the ages
child and adult. The struggles of a teenager were often universal
and surprisingly, the same, or at least, not dissimilar to the
struggles (mainly familial) that teenagers today face. Parent’s
struggling to know whether to treat them as children or adults,
and so treating them as a frustrating mix of both. This meant
that far too often, teenagers were treated as children and
expected to act like adults. Understandably, this caused a lot of
fights and friction between family members and even between
parents in different families. Most parents believed they were in
the right a lot of the time, which is usually the root cause of a lot
of these misunderstandings and misgivings.
     Things were not made any better when, apparently, teenagers
were made to watch short films instructing them how to host an
appropriate party, how to respect your parents, how to change
your personality, etc. Teenagers as a concept came into fruition
in the 1940s and rolled into popularity due to many American
businesses seeing teenagers as a marketable business
opportunity, advertising the idealistic American teenager and
foring the stereotype that we now see today; tall teenage boys
with short hair, wearing jeans and plain tshirts with bomber
fangirls, and closely knit small group of male friends they kept
close, but never really liked. And small, polite, petite girls in
dresses with long brown hair, young doe-ish eyes and clutching
a stack of study books and chemistry books. Despite being 20 to
30 years from the 50’s, ‘Stranger Things’ does a good job at
showing this stereotype, though I’m not sure if they were
stereotyping on purpose, if it was accidental, if it was done
ironically or not.
     Oddly enough, despite sex, love and lust being common
topics to be explored in YA fiction, be it in books or on tv, sexual
topics or talk of ‘heavy petting’ was completely taboo, any
mention of it was punishable. The adults thought that the 50’s
were hard, now with teenagers around being suppressed by new
rules, rules, rules popping up all over the place, simply because
things to the children they were in charge of. Examples include;
boys weren’t allowed to have hair that touched their ears, girls
couldn’t wear trousers, boys couldn’t wear blue jeans, they
weren’t allowed to use slang since adults found it threatening for
some reason, girls weren’t allowed to listen to black musicians,
particularly black rock musicians a lot of the time, etc.
London, 1950's
ANONYMOUS SEP 26, 2021 01:46PM
London 1950s
What was happening in London 1950s
WW2 was still everywhere to be seen in vacant houses where
people had moved out of the big city, large craters from the blitz
that developers had just started to develop into huge flat
complexes and from the still small male population left from the
men lost to the fighting.
What was London like to live in the 1950s?
ANONYMOUS SEP 26, 2021 02:02PM
what it was like living in the 1950s?
London was becoming one of the most diverse cities in the
world where the culture was characterized by the upcoming
youth 13-19yr olds which was the new concept of teenagers. The
concept of 'teenager' was still very new to the aging population
of Britain. Young people were trying out new ways to express
themselves this is where the Edwardian tailoring from before the
war was being actively clashed against American rock 'n roll style
which caused a lot of change in style this was known as the
teddy boy/girl movement. teenagers thrived in the new diverse
London a new city of change where the older population were
still trying to recover from the effects of the war.

ANONYMOUS SEP 26, 2021 02:20PM

big changes
In London in the 50s the changes weren't only the people and
the architecture there were some big advancements in
technology like every household had a plug-in radio, a toaster, a
vacuum cleaner, a cooker, and an electric fire, and many more
advancements were made which improved the quality of life in
London let alone the whole of England and the UK. 

But, there were also other things invented such as fish fingers
and hula hoops which took the world by storm.

The Play - Script

NIGELPAUL OCT 01, 2021 11:21AM

The Text SCAZ OCT 01, 2021 01:52PM

BLUE MOON OVER POPLAR

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Given Circumstances - The Play

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