caa a22 4500 386362580 CHVBK 20180307111921.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00003687 doi S0266464X00003687 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00003687 Woodruff Graham Community, Class, and Control: a View of Community Plays [Elektronische Daten] [Graham Woodruff] ‘Community' has, suggests Graham Woodruff, a friendly ring: yet it is also a weasel word, lending a stamp of often spurious togetherness to bodies politic or theatric. Thus, the use of ‘community' in the geographical sense is often drained of any true meaning, where it is not a cover for the avoidance of contentious political issues. ‘Communities of interest' had some success in speaking theatrically in the 'seventies, but now, Woodruff claims, the political situation is such that ‘community theatre' can and should seek to express the common interests of the increasingly beleaguered working class, offering a way of extending the dramatizations attempted outwards from parochial to wider political concerns. Graham Woodruff was Head of the Drama Department at the University of Birmingham before becoming director of Telford Community Arts, on whose work he draws for the following article. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/20(1989-11), 370-373 0266-464X 5:20<370 1989 5 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00003687 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00003687 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Woodruff Graham NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/20(1989-11), 370-373 0266-464X 5:20<370 1989 5 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge