Collective Actions

By: Sarah Weston; Isaac Rose

The Salford Community Theatre is building experiments in collective power, one play at a time.

Salford Community Theatre staged Walter Greenwood’s classic play. (Photo by Colin Armstrong)

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The great socialist historian Raphael Samuel once described theatre as being ‘the most public of arts, a second cousin to politics’. Rather than staging works of a political nature, or of politics itself being ‘theatrical’, Samuel argued that theatre anticipates the political. A depiction of the world we wish to build through political struggle may […]

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The great socialist historian Raphael Samuel once described theatre as being ‘the most public of arts, a second cousin to politics’. Rather than staging works of a political nature, or of politics itself being ‘theatrical’, Samuel argued that theatre anticipates the political. A depiction of the world we wish to build through political struggle may […]

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The great socialist historian Raphael Samuel once described theatre as being ‘the most public of arts, a second cousin to politics’. Rather than staging works of a political nature, or of politics itself being ‘theatrical’, Samuel argued that theatre anticipates the political. A depiction of the world we wish to build through political struggle may […]

The great socialist historian Raphael Samuel once described theatre as being ‘the most public of arts, a second cousin to politics’. Rather than staging works of a political nature, or of politics itself being ‘theatrical’, Samuel argued that theatre anticipates the political. A depiction of the world we wish to build through political struggle may […]

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