Theatres Of The Left 18801935 Workers Theatre Movements In Britain And America Raphael Samuel Editor by Raphael Samuel (editor), Ewan Maccoll (editor), Stuart Cosgrove (editor) 9781138214460, 1138214469 instant download after payment.

First 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 (1928-1935) 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.