Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985)

Name: Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985)Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America\nAuthor(s): Raphael Samuel, Ewan MacColl, Stuart Cosgrove\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138214378, 978-1138214378\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers Theatre Movement [tel] is traced from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and German development alongside which the parallel movements in the United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical controversies which accompanied them.