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A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre: Audience, Class and Form - Softcover

John McGrath

 
9781854593702: A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre: Audience, Class and Form

Synopsis

The classic manifesto on popular theatre reissued.

John McGrath's manifesto is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1981. Looking at the ways different classes take their entertainment, he puts the case for what theatre could be doing for the populace instead of walling itself up in subsidised fortresses for the well-to-do.

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About the Author

John McGrath (1935-2002) was a playwright and theatre theorist. He also wrote for TV, notably Z-Cars. In 1971 he founded 7:84 (named after the statistic that 7% of the population of Britain owns 84% of the wealth), for whom he wrote 20 plays. His theatre manifesto, A Good Night Out, is a classic theatre text.

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