1st Edition

The Set-Up An Anatomy of the English Theatre Today

By Ronald Hayman Copyright 1973
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20 th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and motives flow through it. On the one hand there are the organisations: the big national companies, the West End managements, the regional repertory theatres, the ‘fringe’ groups, the trade unions, the... Read more

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Biography

Ronald Hayman

Original review of Günter Grass:

‘…provides a careful and fascinating analysis of all of Grass’s fiction.’ Neil Ascherson, London Review of Books, Vol 7, No. 18, (1985).