Shirley Dynevor-White obituary

Shirley Dynevor-White, seated centre, in Joan Littlewood’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol for her Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in 1953. Next to her, in the dark suit, is Harry H Corbett Photograph: from family/Unknown

My mother, Shirley Dynevor-White, who has died aged 89, was an actor in Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop company in London during the 1950s.

Between 1953 and 1959 she took part in many productions with them at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, including A Christmas Carol (1953), The Dutch Courtesan (1954), Richard II (1954) and An Italian Straw Hat (1955).