"And if people don’t like that, they can kill themselves like Mum did."
/How theatre can mend our broken democracy
I'm sure Andy Field is right about the idea that "community-based theatre can empower the disenfranchised and prompt political growth" it's just that having been through the sixties and seventies with all that agitprop and those touring political theatre groups playing mostly to empty church halls I can't really take the idea seriously. I know this means that I'm displaying "the jaded flavour of downbeat cynicism that has dogged the British theatre for so long" but I can't help it. Sorry, I just keep thinking of Legz Akimbo:
Via DK
I'm sure Andy Field is right about the idea that "community-based theatre can empower the disenfranchised and prompt political growth" it's just that having been through the sixties and seventies with all that agitprop and those touring political theatre groups playing mostly to empty church halls I can't really take the idea seriously. I know this means that I'm displaying "the jaded flavour of downbeat cynicism that has dogged the British theatre for so long" but I can't help it. Sorry, I just keep thinking of Legz Akimbo:
Via DK
