ABSTRACT
During her long and varied career in the theatre Ann Jellicoe has been actress, stage-manager, director, producer, literary manager (Royal Court Theatre)and teacher (Central School of Speech and Drama, RADA, etc.). But, she is probably best known as a playwright and as the innovator of community plays. Her plays include: The Sport of My Mad Mother (1958), Shelley; or The Idealist (1965) and The Knack (1961). Translations include Rosmersholm (1959) and The Seagull (1964) and an opera Der Freischiitz (1964). She has also written plays for children. Since the late 1970s, she has concentrated on producing, and in most cases writing and directing, community plays — fourteen in all — from The Reckoning (Lyme Regis, 1978) to Changing Places (Woking, Surrey, 1992).
