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Theatre Uncut

A Response to the Countrywide Spending Cuts

Dennis Kelly author Mark Ravenhill author Lucy Kirkwood author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:31st May '11

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A fantastic, innovative theatre revolution with lines so strong they almost started a riot, Theatre Uncut simply cannot be missed.

Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to publicspending since WWII – cuts which are the turning point of a generation, undermining the welfare state, higher education and the arts in one fell swoop. Theatre Uncut is a national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK’s leading dramatists. Drama groups, universities, youth clubs and theatre companies nationwide joined the event, staging their own versions of the shorts in a national theatrical uprising. Now published in this new collection, Theatre Uncut contains these short plays, addressing audiences who want to think about what the budget cuts really mean, and who they are really hitting. A debate is underway. Protest might begin, minds might be changed, views challenged, ideas formed. Theatre Uncut is a response to a situation that we cannot control, and over which we had no say. Click below to hear an interview with Libby Brodie and Hannah Price of Theatre Uncut:

ISBN: 9781849430630

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 168g

96 pages