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All Together Now: An Alternative View of Theatre and the Community book cover

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All Together Now An Alternative View of Theatre and the Community

By Steve Gooch Copyright 1984
90 Pages
by Routledge

90 Pages
by Routledge

90 Pages
by Routledge
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In All Together Now (first published in 1984), Steve Gooch, himself a playwright with extensive experience of ‘community theatre’, looks at the relationship of the theatre to the community in which it takes place. Taking the work of contemporary ‘community theatre’ as a stimulus, he gives a ‘behind-the-scenes’ analysis of the failure of commercial theatre—in the subsidised sector as well as the... Read more

Introduction  1. Community theatre and theatre in the community  2. Just theatre  3. How theatre is made  4. The influence of subsidy  5. The Fringe – Samizdat of the west  6. Communing with revolution  7. The what? must go on  8. Small change, big change  9. Voicing the connections  10. All together now  11. Art always comes last

Biography

Steve Gooch is a playwright and the writer and translator of over 40 produced scripts. Steve’s adaptations include Great Expectations, produced at Liverpool Playhouse, and It’s all for the Best (from Candide) performed at the Victoria, Stoke. His well-known translations include Brecht’s Man is Man produced by the Royal Court, Stoke and the RSC, and The Mother, produced at the Roundhouse and revived by the National Theatre, as well as contemporary plays by Fassbinder, Kroetz & Harald Mueller, whose Big Wolf, originally produced by the Royal Court was subsequently published by Davis-Poynter.

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