Research Note: Politics, War, and Adaptation: Ewan MacColl's Operation Olive Branch, 1947

Authors

Claire Warden

Abstract

In 1947, Ewan MacColl, left-wing playwright, committed Communist, and cofounder (with Joan Littlewood) of the highly influential British company Theatre Workshop, wrote a play entitled Operation Olive Branch, a work that was, by his own admission, “freely adapted from the Lysistrata of Aristophanes.”¹

Recommended Citation

Warden, Claire (2011) "Research Note: Politics, War, and Adaptation: Ewan MacColl's Operation Olive Branch, 1947," Comparative Drama: Vol. 44: Iss. 4, Article 12.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol44/iss4/12