MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
What great things happen when the TUC supports the arts
PAUL FARMER speaks to Dave Rogers, artistic director of Banner Theatre, Britain’s foremost workers' theatre & music company on their 50th anniversary
(L-R) Mike Bethel and Dave Rogers perform Saltley Gate To Party Gate, Shipley, October 2022; (R) Banner Theatre take to the streets in the 1970s
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
ON November 1, an event at Bridgwater Arts Centre will celebrate 40 years since the great Miners’ Strike in the British coalfields – and the 50th birthday of Birmingham’s political theatre company, Banner Theatre.
This longevity is an astonishing achievement for any theatre company, but for a political theatre group it’s pretty much superhuman.
Dave Rogers has been involved with Banner Theatre since 1974 and is now artistic director. How has Banner survived?
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