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The London Theatre Studio. 1936 - 1939.

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In which we look to understand something about the nature of the London Theatre Studio the school founded by Michel Saint Denis in a disused Methodist Chapel in Islington in 1936. Cover picture is of a woolwork by Merula Salaman an actor at the LTS. Sophie Jump's PhD can be found here : https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9194/1/Sophie%20Jump%20PhD%20thesis%20FINAL%2027%20Jan%2016.pdf Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=EKHEKXBAZBQG6&currency_code=GBP)

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