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Strategies of Political Theatre

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This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play-writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffith, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, David Hare, John McGrath and Caryl Churchill, the author analyses their respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for a radical restructuring of society. The book begins with a discussion of the way that theatre has been used to convey a political message. Each chapter is then devoted to an exploration of the engagement of individual playwrights with left-wing political theatre, including a detailed analysis of one of their major plays. Despite political change since the 1980s, political play-writing continues to be a significant element in contemporary play-writing, but in a very changed form.

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ISBN: 9780521277327
Publication date: 2nd November 2006
Author: Michael De Montfort University, Leicester Patterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 252 pages
Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
Genres: Literary studies: general
Theatre studies