About East 15 The School has two campuses – one in Loughton on the edge of East London and the other based in the vibrant and modern resort town of Southend-on-Sea. Both Campuses have quick and direct links to London’s West End theatre district, whilst also offering a peaceful setting in which to study. The school was founded by Margaret Bury and grew from the work of Joan Littlewood’s famed Theatre Workshop, which broke new ground re-interpreting the classics for a modern age, commissioning new plays from socially committed writers, and creating an ensemble capable of inventing new work that combined improvisational brilliance with
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method, technique, research, text analysis and the intense expression of truthful emotion. Much of the original approach was based upon the theories of Stanislavski and over the years training methods at East 15 have now embraced approaches from diverse practitioners, such as Michael Chekhov, Rudolf Laban, Jerzy Grotowski, Jacques Lecoq, Peter Brook,
