"...it was after all possible to unite passion, poetry, sex and song in a living theatrical form". (Michael Billington reviewing Arden's The Workhouse Donkey)

✒️ #JohnArden, English playwright (Left-handed Liberty), #DOTD 28 March 2012. #Theatre #Literature

"...it was after all possible to unite passion, poetry, sex and song in a living theatrical form." (Michael Billington reviewing Arden's "The Workhouse Donkey")

✒️ #JohnArden, English novelist and playwright, was #BOTD 26 October 1930. #Theatre #Literature

"...it was after all possible to unite passion, poetry, sex and song in a living theatrical form". (Michael Billington reviewing Arden's The Workhouse Donkey)

✒️ #JohnArden, English novelist and playwright (Left Handed Liberty), #DOTD 28 March 2012. #Theatre #Literature

Declaration of interest - I did the background #genealogical research on this one. It was fascinating re-discovering #JohnArden who has a much better claim to be the possible #Lecturer than many other suggested #Derby #Enlightenment figures.