Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London has written for 'The Conversation' on Dame Joan Plowright

To escape the scandal of the divorce from Leigh, Olivier and Plowright headed for New York, where each appeared on the stage, he in “Becket,” she in Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” for which she won a Tony as best actress in a play.

She stunned in Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs,” and George Bernard Shaw’s totemic two female roles “Major Barbara” and “Saint Joan.” Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British actresses (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith among them) who came into their own in the 1960s and ’70s.

Oscar-nominated actress dies, aged 95 - Plowright was the widow of Laurence Olivier and won two Golden Globes during her career

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright, who was one half of a theatrical power couple after marrying Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall,

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright has died, aged 95. Her family said in a statement on Friday that she died the previous day in the presence of her loved ones at Denville Hall, a retirement home for artists in southern England. She was conferred the title of Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... She became enduringly identified with John Osborne’s “The Entertainer” and Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” both seminal ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day, surrounded by her loved ones.

he in “Becket,” she in Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” for which she won a Tony as best actress in a play. Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England on Oct. 28 ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of ... that accompanied the Oliviers’ break-up, Plowright took Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey to Broadway, where it opened the night before ...

Advocacy for necessary change around gender and disability as well as race will continue with future generations of actors. Joan Plowright's legacy as one of the most subtly powerful inventors of the class revolution of post-war British theatre is secure.