Michael Patterson was born and educated in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. After thirty five years working in Marketing and Senior Management, with Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Esselte, redundancy gave him the opportunity his own on line business, selling lamination machines and consumables, as well as finding time to write crime novels. It also gave him the time to concentrate on his writing. Married with two children, he lives in Frimley Green, Surrey.
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Acknowledgements Brief chronology, 1953-1989 Introduction Part I. Theory: 1. Strategies of political theatre: a theoretical overview Part II. Two Model Strategies: 2. The 'reflectionist' strategy: 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) 3. The 'interventionist' strategy: poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) Part III. The Reflectionist Strain: 4. The dialectics of comedy: Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (1975) 5. Appropriating middle-class comedy: Howard Barker's Stripwell (1975) 6. Staging the future: Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (1974) Part IV. The Interventionist Strain: 7. Agit-prop revisited: John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) 8. Brecht revisited: David Hare's Fanshen (1975) 9. Rewriting Shakespeare: Edward Bond's Lear (1971) 10. The strategy of play: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979) Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index.
Acknowledgements Brief chronology, 1953-1989 Introduction Part I. Theory: 1. Strategies of political theatre: a theoretical overview Part II. Two Model Strategies: 2. The 'reflectionist' strategy: 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) 3. The 'interventionist' strategy: poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) Part III. The Reflectionist Strain: 4. The dialectics of comedy: Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (1975) 5. Appropriating middle-class comedy: Howard Barker's Stripwell (1975) 6. Staging the future: Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (1974) Part IV. The Interventionist Strain: 7. Agit-prop revisited: John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) 8. Brecht revisited: David Hare's Fanshen (1975) 9. Rewriting Shakespeare: Edward Bond's Lear (1971) 10. The strategy of play: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979) Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index.
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