This book is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain's most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company's aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important. Theatre Workshop, heir to the Workers Theatre Movement of the 1930s, was born in the optimism of post-war Labour Britain; highly politically motivated, the company attempted to create radical political theatre, which it aimed to take directly to working class communities. In the course of its political mission, and to further its own appeal, the company were the first British group to systematically apply the ideas of Stanislavsky and Laban to their acting practice.
