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In
All Together Now (first published in 1984), Steve Gooch, himself a playwright with extensive experience of 'community theatre', looks at the relationship of the theatre to the community in which it takes place.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Community theatre and theatre in the community 2. Just theatre 3. How theatre is made 4. The influence of subsidy 5. The Fringe - Samizdat of the west 6. Communing with revolution 7. The what? must go on 8. Small change, big change 9. Voicing the connections 10. All together now 11. Art always comes last
About the author
Steve Gooch is a playwright and the writer and translator of over 40 produced scripts. Steve's adaptations include
Great Expectations, produced at Liverpool Playhouse, and
It's all for the Best (from
Candide) performed at the Victoria, Stoke. His well-known translations include Brecht's
Man is Man produced by the Royal Court, Stoke and the RSC, and
The Mother, produced at the Roundhouse and revived by the National Theatre, as well as contemporary plays by Fassbinder, Kroetz & Harald Mueller, whose
Big Wolf, originally produced by the Royal Court was subsequently published by Davis-Poynter.
Summary
In All Together Now (first published in 1984), Steve Gooch, himself a playwright with extensive experience of ‘community theatre’, looks at the relationship of the theatre to the community in which it takes place.
