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British Socialist and Workers Theatre

Red Stages

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Authors:
  1. Robert Leach

    1. Selkirk, UK

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  • Provides an overview of the development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre
  • Explores the connections between politics and culture and between political theory and cultural expression
  • Organized chronologically and uncovers much in labour and theatre history which is in danger of being lost

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 1-2

  3. Popular Culture and the Industrial Revolution

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 3-18

  4. Chartism and Drama

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 19-32

  5. Workers’ Theatre, 1850–1914

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 33-46

  6. Marxists and Fabians

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 47-57

  7. The Theatre of the Suffragettes

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 59-69

  8. Labour Theatres in the 1920s

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 71-87

  9. The Workers’ Theatre Movement

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 89-103

  10. Left Theatres of the 1930s

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 105-119

  11. Unity Theatre

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 121-135

  12. Theatre of Action to Theatre Workshop

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 137-155

  13. Progressive Theatre After 1945

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 157-170

  14. Anarchist and Socialist Theatres of the 1960s

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 171-190

  15. Socialism and Theatre in the 1970s

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 191-207

  16. 7:84 Theatre Company

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 209-226

  17. Perspective on a Tradition

    • Robert Leach
    Pages 227-233

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 235-248
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About this book

This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre – a feat which has not been attempted before. It explores the connections between politics and culture (specifically theatre) and between political theory and cultural (theatrical) expression. The book is organized chronologically and uncovers much in labour and theatre history which is in danger of being lost. It can also be seen as a way into different moments in its subject’s story (e.g. post-Ibsen naturalism; agitprop theatre; ‘fringe’ theatre of the 1970s) and the relationship of such forms to specific political events and ideas at specific points in history.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Selkirk, UK

    Robert Leach

About the author

Robert Leach taught at Birmingham and Edinburgh Universities and was also a freelance theatre director. He has published more than a dozen books on theatre subjects, including Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre and An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance both of which were shortlisted for Theatre Book of the Year.

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