1st Edition
Partners of the Imagination The Lives, Art and Struggles of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Prologue
One: A Yorkshire Boyhood
Two: Stirrings
Three: An Irish Girlhood
Four: The Aspiring Actress
Five: At the Royal Court Theatre
Six: Towards Collaboration
Seven: Festivals of Anarchy
Eight: A Playwright Without His Breeches
Nine: Alternatives in Politics and Theatre
Ten: Cartoons, Archetypes, Slogans, Theatre
Eleven: Looking and Seeing
Twelve: An Activist Theatre
Thirteen: A Mighty Bust-Up
Fourteen: Ireland Once Again
Fifteen: Non-Stop
Sixteen: Pinpricks and Follies
Seventeen: Unperson – New Person
Eighteen: ‘If You Are Beaten Down, You Just Rise Again!’
Nineteen: Artists for Freedom
Twenty: Pirate Woman
Twenty-one: Undeviating Paths
Twenty-two: The Ink Horn Not Yet Dry
Twenty-three: Loose Theatre
Twenty-four: ‘This Was Not History. It Has Not Passed’
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Robert Leach is a theatre director as well as an academic. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he has taught at Birmingham and Edinburgh Universities. He has published many books on theatre-related subjects, most recently from Routledge the two-volume Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance.
