All Together Now by Steve Gooch - 9781032978789

All Together NowAn Alternative View of Theatre and the Community\nAuthor(s): Steve Gooch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032978789, 978-1032978789\nSynopsis\nIn All Together Now (first published in 1984), Steve Gooch, himself a playwright with extensive experience of community theatre, looks at the relationship of the theatre to the community in which it takes place. Taking the work of contemporary community theatre as a stimulus, he gives a behind-the-scenes analysis of the failure of commercial theatrein the subsidised sector as well as the West Endto transcend the mechanisms of box-office and tradition, and to play a vital and integral part in the life of its audience. Examining the initiatives of small theatres and touring companies in the seventies, Gooch looks critically at their work practices and forms of organisation and draws some positive pointers for the future.\n\nAs much about the internal workings.