Titlebook: New British Political Dramatists; Howard Brenton, Davi John Bull Textbook 1984Latest edition John Bull 1984 20th century.British drama.Chur

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,1968 and All That: Agit-Prop or ‘Avant-Garde’,eflected a profound disquiet about the current state of the nation, and, although these playwrights occupied a variety of political positions, their political ideals were well to the left of the Labour Party and indeed quite outside the terms of reference of conventional Parliamentary ‘democracy’.

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Coming to Terms with the Seventies: Fusions,rmanent or semi-permanent company-bases, and the increased accessibility of the larger subsidised theatres to alternative productions. It is important to note that the commercial theatres play almost no part in this development.

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On the Edge of the Eighties: Developments,er the bed’, the Labour defeat was inevitable. Thatcher’s clearly articulated promise of a return to a simple model of strong government struck a chord in an electorate as disillusioned with the impotence of Parliament as it was uncertain about the implications of Britain’s declining role, economically and politically, in the contemporary world.

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Howard Brenton: Portable Theatre and the Fringe,as become increasingly well known. His ambiguous acceptance by the theatrical establishment has allowed him to utilise the facilities of the large theatres in a move towards a reformulation of ‘epic theatre’, but he has never ceased to question the point of the exercise.

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Trevor Griffiths: Strategic Dialectics, of political struggle that is scarcely to be found in the early work of either of the others. And again, although . has been toured by the 7:84 Company, Griffiths cannot be fitted into a straight agit-prop slot.

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