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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: POLITICAL PROTEST

Volume 24

STAGES IN THE REVOLUTION

STAGES IN THE REVOLUTION

Political Theatre in Britain Since 1968

CATHERINE ITZIN

First published in 1980 by Eyre Methuen Ltd

This edition first published in 2022

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1980 Catherine Itzin
Chronology 1980 Catherine Itzin

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ISBN: 978-1-03-203038-8 (Set)

ISBN: 978-1-00-319086-8 (Set) (ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-03-204686-0 (Volume 24) (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-03-204689-1 (Volume 24) (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-00-319425-5 (Volume 24) (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003194255

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STAGES IN THE REVOLUTION

Political Theatre in Britain Since 1968

Catherine Itzin

First published in 1980 in simultaneous hardback and

paperback editions by Eyre Methuen Ltd,

11 New Fetter Lane,

London EC4P 4EE

Reprinted in 1982 by Methuen London Ltd

Copyright Catherine Itzin 1980

Chronology copyright Catherine Itzin 1980

Filmset by Northumberland Press Ltd

Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

Printed in Great Britain

by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd

Bungay, Suffolk

ISBN 0 413 39180 9 HB

0 413 46150 5 PB

This title is available in both hardback and paperback editions. The paperback is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

For Wojciech

To Whom It May Concern

I was run over by the truth one day.

Ever since the accident Ive walked this way

So stick my legs in plaster

Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Heard the alarm clock screaming with pain,

Couldnt find myself so I went back to sleep again

So fill my ears with silver

Stick my legs in plaster

Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Every time I shut my eyes all I see is flames.

Made a marble phone book, carved all the names

So coat my eyes with butter

Fill my ears with silver

Stick my legs in plaster

Tell me lies about Vietnam.

I smell something burning, hope its just my brains.

Theyre only dropping peppermints and daisy-chains

So stuff my nose with garlic

Coat my eyes with butter

Fill my ears with silver

Stick my legs in plaster

Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Where were you at the time of the crime?

Down by the Cenotaph drinking slime

So chain my tongue with whisky

Stuff my nose with garlic

Coat my eyes with butter

Fill my ears with silver

Stick my legs in plaster

Tell me lies about Vietnam.

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,

You take the human being and you twist it all about

So scrub my skin with women

Chain my tongue with whisky

Stuff my nose with garlic

Coat my eyes with butter

Fill my ears with silver

Stick my legs in plaster

Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Adrian Mitchell, Tribune 16 April 1965

Contents

Preface

Introduction

CAST (Cartoon Archetypical Slogan Theatre)

John Arden and Margaretta DArcy

AgitProp Street Players/Red Ladder

Ed Berman and Inter-Action

1969

Albert Hunt and the Bradford College of Art Theatre Group

Welfare State

Pip Simmons Theatre Group

Edward Bond

1970

David Mercer

Arnold Wesker

1971

John McGrath and 7:84 Theatre Company

Hull Truck

1972

David Edgar and The General Will

Subsidy

1973

Trevor Griffiths

The Association of Community Theatres (TACT)

1974

Howard Brenton and Portable Theatre

Belt and Braces Roadshow

1975

The Independent Theatre Council (ITC)

Equity

Joint Stock Theatre Group

Womens Theatre Group

Gay Sweatshop

Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre

Barrie Keeffe

Howard Barker

1976

The ICA Theatre

The National Theatre

Monstrous Regiment

Caryl Churchill

1977

North West Spanner

Theatre Writers Union (TWU)

1978

The Combination

David Hare

Postscript

Notes

Chronology of Productions

Select Bibliography of Plays

The main engagement took place in Sloane Square. There was a complementary action in the far east, at Stratford. These separate forces were never co-ordinated. The east relied very much on mercenaries recruited from another country. The west, although at one time there was an uneasy and short-lived alliance with France, employed the natives. The west once occupied the Palace and the Comedy, but these were not held. At this moment the east has taken Wyndhams and the Criterion. The situation is now confused. What exactly is written on that banner which the winds of expediency will so irritatingly fold? What are those charming business men doing on this side of the barricades? Is it true that some of the insurgents have been decorated by the enemy? They say the social realists and the experimentalists have fallen out. There are ugly rumours of unholy alliances. Even the citadel itself, the curiously named Royal Court, is threatened.1

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